starch
starch is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Stiff; precise; rigid. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Stiff; precise; rigid.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- transitive verb. To stiffen with starch.
- noun. a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
- noun. 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
- verb. stiffen with starch
"starch clothes"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in starch:
Common word forms
starched, starcher, starches, starchly, starching, starchless, starchness
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