Crossword-Solution: STARCH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Starch | a. | Stiff; precise; rigid. |
| Starch | n. | 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. |
| Starch | n. | Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality. |
| Starch | v. t. | To stiffen with starch. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STARCH | anagram | CHARTS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with STARCH (5)
She made a very grand appearance, having on a high head-dress, a rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch, of which Anne Turner, her especial friend, had taught her the secret, before this last good lady had been hanged for Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder.
The retired dressmaker's tiny room was a marvel of neatness, from the little red table, with its three Gorham spoons laid in exact parallels, to the decorous geraniums and mignonettes growing in the starch box at the window, underneath the fish globe with its one venerable gold fish.
The iodides in solution are decomposed by chlorine, iodine being precipitated, the smallest quantity of which in solution is instantly detected by its imparting to starch an intensely blue color.
Becquerel improved upon this process by sizing the paper with starch previous to the application of the bichromate of potash solution, which enabled him to convert the negative picture into a positive one, by the use of a solution of iodine, which combined with that portion of the starch on which the light had not acted.
Stephen Myers, of Albany, deserves mention as one of the most persevering among the colored editorial fraternity.] 4 (return) [ The German physiologists have even discovered vegetable matter—starch—in the human body.
Quotes with STARCH (3)
When she scooped up her clothes, opened his door, then snapped her fingers for a guard down the hall, Wroth watched like a bystander. “Pssst. Minion. I need these laundered. Very little starch. Don’t just stand there gawking or you’ll anger my good frenemy General Wroth. We’re like this.” He couldn’t see her but knew she was twining two fingers together.
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!
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Appears in: AARP, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 82 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).