Starch

What do we mean by starch?

A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder. noun

Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering. noun

Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes. noun

Stiff behavior. noun

Vigor; mettle. noun

To stiffen with starch. transitive verb

Strong; hard; tough.

Rigid; hence, precise.

To stiffen with starch.

A proximate principle of plants, having the formula C6H10O5. or a multiple of that formula. noun

A preparation of commercial starch with boiling (or less frequently cold) water, used in the laundry or factory for stiffening linen or cotton fabrics before ironing. noun

A stiff, formal manner; starchedness. noun

Stiff; precise; rigid. adjective

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. noun

The grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape. noun

To stiffen with starch. transitive verb

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

Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods. 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.

(nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

A stiff, formal manner; formality.

Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Words that are spelled similarly to starch:
starch, search, stanch, starc, storch, stach, starck, scarch, stauch, sarch, starco, tarch.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word starch:
dextrin, maltose, amylase, arrowroot, inulin, sago, cornstarch, dextrose, granules, tapioca, sucrose, thicken, malted, glycogen, granule, gluten, waxy, cellulose, fructose, gelatin, glucose, chloroplast, iodine, cassava, noodles, carbohydrate, tubers, digestion, syrup, potato, carbohydrates, flour, grains, fermented, kernels, gel, potatoes, corn, maize, viscosity, paste, sorghum, fermentation, pasta, ethanol, gum, hydrolysis, baking, metabolism, intestine, yeast, dough, resistant, enzymes, soluble, cooked, dietary, boiled, powder, soy, dried, vegetable, ingredient, wheat, sugar, glue, jelly, cereal, extracted, sauce, barley, ingredients, derivatives, fats, fatty, enzyme, drying, grinding, polymer, milling, acids, texture, fiber, baked, grain, fibre, flavor, boiling, eaten, banana, phosphate, molecules, rice, spices, fried, consumed, extract, absorb, algae, sodium.

Words that rhyme with starch:
arch, march, demarche, larch, parch, cornstarch, arch-, dead march, corbel arch, lancet arch, gothic arch, bartsch, pointed arch, keel arch, american larch, black larch, hunger march, quick march, funeral march, horseshoe arch, gill arch, rampant arch, roman arch, triumphal arch, aortic arch, shouldered arch, drop arch, flat arch, pelvic arch, trimmer arch, broken arch, tudor arch, alveolar arch, fallen arch, neural arch, siberian larch, line of march, pectoral arch, skew arch, military march, camber arch, european larch, oregon larch, protest march, diminished arch, golden larch, moorish arch, round arch, semicircular arch, western larch, pier arch, processional march, scheme arch, bell arch, safety arch, skeen arch, straight arch, partch, sunken arch, trumpet arch, karcz, skene arch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe starch:
soluble, corn, much, little, raw, more, pure, animal, hydroxyethyl, dry, resistant, powdered, potato, waxy, liquid, cooked, less, modified, native, white, insoluble, thin, ordinary, boiled, commercial, undigested, wheat, fat, dietary, excess, yellow, uncooked, cassava, soft, unmodified, considerable, granular, free, digest, sweet, fine, digestible, enough, wet, refined, edible, unchanged, maize, hot, floridean, cold, unaltered, abundant, crude, thick, residual, hydrolyzed, called, thermoplastic, sufficient, blue, extra, prepared, moist, transitory, dried, pea, unboiled, adequate, rice, unconverted, gelatinous, green, sago, fancy, hydrated, amylose, nitro, pregelatinized, arrowroot.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective starch:
grains, granules, polysaccharides, sugar, water, paste, paper, gel, making, solution, diet, grain, cells, pudding, polysaccharide, mixture, flour, powder, test, protein, reaction, makers, oil, foods, factory, complex, diets, box, cellulose, sheath, factories, iodide, gluten, milk, conversion, formation, ratio, vegetables, interactions, clay, medium, iodine, gum, blue, color, granule, casein, works, splitting, formers, food, gels, potatoes, eaa, corpuscles, trag, agar, glycogen, glucose, manufacturers, maker, electrophoresis, indicator, parenchyma, syrup, mixtures, reagent, content, cake, sugars, globules, boxes, ingredients, manufacture, puddings, storing, compound, digestion, blends, industry, papers, matrix, opium, builders, pastry, buffer, extras, stars, bearing, carbohydrates, meal, warehouse, cream.

Words that sound like starch:
starch, starry, stari, star, start, stars, starve, stark, starr, starchy, starched, stara, starrs, staar, starke, starn, starck, staart, storrow, starc, starcher, story, storie, storey, autarch, store, stores, stork, stuart, stort, storch, storr, stora, storck, storrs, stauch, storz, stoehr, stohr, stary, stere, sterry, stare, stairs, stitch, stair, steer, stares, stewart, stich, starred, stear, sarge, stero, steers, stach, stayer, sture, starp, sge, stge, stour, stodge, sterr, stires, stoor, stier, steere, styer, stower, stuhr, stowers, stayers, sterre, scarch, stehr, steuer, steyr, steier, styr, steyer, stiers, stahr, styra, stuur, storm, storage, stored, scorch, staunch, storer, storge, sorge, stoush, stord, sorry, sari, stai, saari, sarre.