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starch

Starch is a 6 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter H for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
(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.
(n.) Fig.: A stiff formal manner; formality.
(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.

Syllable Information

The word starch is a 6 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for starch is: starch


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