A penis, especially the base of a penis.
The single node of a tree that has no parent.
A sexual partner.
The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
A zero (of an equation).
The primary source; origin.
The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
A root vegetable.
The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
The lowest place, position, or part.
The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
A word from which another word or words are derived.
The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
An act of sexual intercourse.
The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
To be firmly fixed; to be established.
To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
To sexually penetrate.
To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
To turn up or dig with the snout.
Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
To root out; to abolish.
To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
The penis.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.