Starches is valid Scrabble Word

Is starches a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is starches valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for STARCHES in dictionary:

VERB:

STARCH, to stiffen a fabric
stiffen (fabric or clothing) with starch
(of a boxer) defeat (an opponent) by a knockout

NOUN:

an odourless, tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes. It is a polysaccharide which functions as a carbohydrate store and is an important constituent of the human diet.
food containing starch
powder or spray made from starch and used before ironing to stiffen fabric or clothing
stiffness of manner or character
foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to treat with starch (a solid carbohydrate)

Words related to STARCHES

starch11 starched14 starching15

Words that contain STARCHES

unstarches15 cornstarches19

How to use STARCHES in a sentence

The resulting chemical combinations are the sugars and starches used by the cambium layer in building up the body of the tree.
He smoked a pipe and painted all day, and drank beer and WOULD eat starches or whatever it is that is fattening.
Starches were obtained from roots, and cheap grades of oils and fatty wastes of all sorts were turned into edibles.
Fruit at the end of a meal tends to prevent any injury to the teeth from sugar and starches.
The chief objection to following the advice of the numerous laymen who write eat-and-grow-thin menus is that they advise the elimination of all fats, sugars and starches.
In respect of nutritiveness, it deserves a preference over all the pure starches on account of the proteine compounds it contains.
When sun dried, the masses were broken down, and the starches freely exposed to the air in the shade for ten days.
When pure the proteids and starches are devoid of taste.
He lives in a very ordinary dwelling-house, and it is even stated that his vrouw starches and irons his dress-shirts, but this may only be surmise.

Similar words containing STARCHE without suffix s

starched14 starcher13 starchers14 starchedly19 unstarched16 unstarches15 cornstarches19 starchedness18 starchednesses20

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