Word Meaning

Meaning of "starch" and the crossword clue

- Carb
- carbohydrate
- Carbohydrate in potatoes
- Carbohydrate kept in the laundry
- Stiffen
- Stiffen (fabric)
- Stiffening substance
- Stiff; precise; rigid.
- 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.
- To stiffen with starch.