Definitions for starch

starch starch

Spelling: [stahrch]
IPA: /stɑrtʃ/

Starch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in starch (achrst).

Definitions for starch

noun

  1. a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
  2. a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
  3. starches, foods rich in natural starch.
  4. stiffness or formality, as of manner:
  5. Informal. vigor; energy; stamina; boldness.

verb (used with object)

  1. to stiffen or treat with starch.
  2. to make stiff or rigidly formal (sometimes followed by up).

Origin of starch

1375-1425; (v.) late Middle English sterchen orig., to stiffen, Old English stercean to make stiff, strengthen, derivative of stearc stark; cognate with German stärk

Examples for starch

Making it with quinoa instead of rice gives you the wonderful taste and comfort of risotto without all that starch.

starch is made from it both for the laundry and for the manufacture of farina, dextrin, etc.

It is these starch grains which form many of those bright specks that we see dancing in a ray of light sometimes.

The dried pulp from which the starch has been extracted is used for making boxes.

Tsai: The ratio of vegetables to meat to starch is much higher.

Sugar and lots of starch will give you a boost followed by a crash that will end your late night partying.

The maid who answered the bell wore a white apron which crackled with starch.

I said: 'No, you furnish the soap and starch and what you pay is enough.

That dust, on being transferred to the stage of a microscope, was found to contain an enormous number of starch grains.

I honor the girl's spirit for not disguising it with starch and pomatum.

Word Value for starch
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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