Starch is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STARCH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to stiffen a fabric
• stiffen (fabric or clothing) with starch
• (of a boxer) defeat (an opponent) by a knockout
• To stiffen with starch.
• stiffen (fabric) with starch
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
• carbohydrate forming the main food element in bread, potatoes, etc
• A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
• Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
ADJECTIVE:
• Stiff; precise; rigid.
• (of a person) formal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with starch (a solid carbohydrate)

Words related to STARCH

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How to use STARCH in a sentence

• Psychology in education, by Daniel Starch, Hazel M.
• Dip each article in the hot starch, those requiring the most stiffening being dipped first, because it is necessary to thin the starch.
• To show that starch disappears from the leaf when the plant is placed in the dark 114 63.
• The fact is that the leaves manufacture starch for the plant and sunlight is necessary for this work.
• Starch will be found in the leaf wherever there was green coloring matter in it, while the parts that were white will show no starch.
• Place in a vessel a little water, into which put the smallest possible quantity of free iodine and add a little starch, and the liquid will instantly assume a blue color.
• They found that rats fed on starch and fat lived only four to eight weeks.
• It furnishes more sugar and less starch than the Potato.
• They make starch out of corn-meal by washing the meal repeatedly, pouring off the water and drying the sediment.
• It makes coffee, beer, whisky, starch, cake, bread.
• These in drying part into flakes, which gives the form to the starch of the shops.
• The solution of potato starch is less stable than the soluble starch.
• The quality of the starch is said to be superior to that of wheat, and commands a higher price in New York.
• The liquor holding the starch in suspension is to be drawn off and allowed to stand for about 70 hours for the starch to deposit.
• A tolerably good imitation of it is made by beating, stirring, and drying potato starch in a similar way.
• On keeping the mixture warm, from a few minutes to half an hour or more, the starch is digested and rendered soluble.
• Now his chief article of diet in the western parts of the Congo is kwanga, which consists chiefly of starch, and he has only a little meat and fish.
• To make raw starch, allow four even tablespoonfuls to a half-pint of cold water.

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