Word "STARCH" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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
Synonyms:
amylum

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
stiffen with starch
Examples:
starch clothes

Crossword Clues for STARCH

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Clue Source Date
Stiffening agent The Times Concise 21 Jul 2025
Polysaccharide found in staples of the human diet (6) The Guardian Weekend 19 Jul 2025
Element in potatoes in leading clubhouse (6)
Request architects to provide a stiffener (6)
Laundry stiffene
It makes things hard for the laundry (6)
Laundry stiffening (6)
A reserve food may be taken from the charts (6)
Out of the charts? That's stiff!
Celebrity, cold and hard, using fabric stiffener (6)
White, tasteless carbohydrate that's an important constituent of rice and potatoes (6)
Complex carbohydrate produced by most green plants (6)
In the rag trade, an insurance against flops (6)
Carbohydrate found in plants such as rice and cassava (6)
Shirt-stiffening spray Commuter 21 Mar 2025
Carbohydrate consumed makes clothes hard to wear (6)
Celebrity chef reduced by half important foodstuff (6)
It is taken from the charts for use in the laundry (6)
Stiffness, formality (6)
Collar stiffener Eugene Sheffer 06 Mar 2025
Celebrity at church has rice, for example (6)
Collar stiffener Family Time 16 Feb 2025
Stiffener in one's diet? (6)
Stiffen check in the wake of celebrity (6)
Carbohydrate in you diet will stiffen your shirt (6)
In potatoes, etc., it makes a holy person roguish (6)
Formality that's found in toast (6)
But too much of this food could make us flabby! (6)
Substance obtained from potatoes which is used to stiffen fabric (6)
Stiffening used for charts? (6)
It lends inflexibility to a leader at church (6)
To top the bill when at church needs a lot of formality (6)
Substance obtained from cereals and potatoes (6)
Stiffener used in Star Chamber! (6)
Naturally occurring polysaccharide substance described by the adjective amylaceous (6)
Stiffener for leading player going to church
Substance in rice and potatoes Wall Street Journal 25 Nov 2024
Over-formality of chat's perhaps about right (6)
Heavy food in celebrity church (6)
Eldest archdeacon concealing primness (6)
It stiffens the laundry, so much formality (6)
Laundry aid (6) Puzzler 26 Oct 2024
Celebrity crush limits carbohydrate (6)
It makes things hard for the laundress (6)
Make stiff charts, perhaps (6)
Saint Archibald has fabric stiffener
Laundry stiffening product (6) Puzzler 26 Sep 2024
Leading champion for a form of stored energy in food (6)
Carb in rice and potatoes LA Times Daily 10 Sep 2024
Carbohydrate stored in plants (6)
The Stiffener is on the charts
Carbohydrate found in cereals and potatoes '
Carbohydrate in a potato Universal 14 Aug 2024
Stiffening substance (6)
Way roofing feature provides rigidity (6)
Stiffening according to the wrong charts (6)
Laundry stiffening product Mirror Tea Time 07 Jul 2024
Top-liner and first two of chorus show some stiffness (6)
Stiffening powder (6)
Does it help to remain stiff-necked? (6)
Pasta or potatoes, e.g.
Formality The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2024
Does it make clothes hard to wear? The Sun Two Speed 28 May 2024
It stiffens charts perhaps (6)
How stiff these charts are! (6)
Firming spray used when ironing
Constituent of the human diet (6)
Good man assumes roguish stiffness (6)
Laundry stiffening product (6) Puzzler 28 Apr 2024
Polysaccharide that occurs widely in plant tissues Mirror Quiz 26 Apr 2024
Strengthen part of cast archway
Carbohydrate that is the chief form of stored energy in plants (6)
Stiffness of manner seen in shocked tsar at church (6)
Carbohydrate for the miserable specimens turning up at church (6)
Carbohydrate for the miserable Specimens turning up church (6)
It makes clothes hard to wear (6)
Stiffener for celebrity attending church (6)
Formality of a celebrity going to church
Laundry stiffening product Mirror Tea Time 09 Mar 2024
Rats come back from church with carbs (6)
Formality of celebrity chef? Not half (6)
A powder or spray used before ironing to stiffen fabric or clothing (6)
Popular actor at church gives source of energy (6)
Fabric stiffener LA Times Daily 15 Jan 2024
Filling food in celebrity church
Pompous formality shown by celebrity at church (6) Puzzler Cryptic 28 Dec 2023
Leading contralto beginning to hate formality (6)
Amylum The Times Concise 26 Nov 2023
School claims rating 'formality' (6)
Out of the charts comes a carbohydrate (6)
Formality shown by celebrity going to church (6) Puzzler Cryptic 01 Nov 2023
Formal inquiry that's oppressive, abandoning caution The Telegraph Toughie 06 Oct 2023
Pasta or potatoes Wall Street Journal 23 Sep 2023
Stiffening agent The Times Concise 02 Sep 2023
Food ingredient available from street vault Irish Times Crosaire 29 Apr 2023
Carbohydrate in potatoes Irish Times Simplex 28 Apr 2023
Stiffness of manner, formality The Guardian Speedy 12 Mar 2023
Carbohydrate in food The Guardian Quick 28 Jul 2022
Food carbohydrate The Times Concise 30 May 2022
Dietary requisite from celebrity chef, half-cut The Times Cryptic 18 Apr 2022
Stiffening carbohydrate Irish Times Simplex 12 Mar 2022
Carb in rice and potatoes USA Today 06 Mar 2022
Formality of reworked charts The Times Cryptic 23 Dec 2021
Stiffener celebrity required before church The Times Cryptic 13 Dec 2021
Fabric stiffener The Guardian Quick 01 Dec 2021
Small spot on the bottom of the foot creates a type of stiffness Irish Times Crosaire 19 Aug 2021
Carbohydrate in potatoes Irish Times Simplex 13 Aug 2021
Stiffener offered by celebrity before church The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Jul 2021
Formality of celebrity and Companion of Honour
Does it make clothes hard to wear? The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2021
Formality The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2021
Stiffener The Telegraph Quick 25 Mar 2021
Stiffening carbohydrate Irish Times Simplex 24 Mar 2021
Collar stiffener Eugene Sheffer 13 Mar 2021
Virtuous person knowing formal behaviour
Stuff in potatoes Universal 21 Nov 2020
Substance found in potatoes and cereals Irish Times Simplex 06 Nov 2020
... celebrity champion shows formality The Telegraph Toughie 20 Aug 2020
Before presentation of award, celebrity needs stiffener
Celebrity cheerleaders' energy store
Fabric stiffener The Times Concise 01 Feb 2020
Rice or potatoes Wall Street Journal 19 Nov 2019
Small spot on the bottom of the foot creates a type of stiffness Irish Times Crosaire 02 Nov 2019
Type of carbohydrate, a substance found in potatoes The Telegraph General Knowledge 26 Aug 2019
Most of cornmeal New York Times 27 Jun 2019
Stiffening agent The Times Concise 21 Jun 2019
Way chief shows formality The Sun Two Speed 13 Apr 2019
Fabric stiffener The Sun Two Speed 13 Apr 2019
Potato stuff Premier Sunday 24 Mar 2019
Rice product
Most of cornmeal
Stiffener The Sun Two Speed 01 Jan 2019
Clothes harder to wear with this! The Sun Two Speed 01 Jan 2019
Formal manner Wall Street Journal 27 Dec 2018
Stiffener leads to teacher appearing relaxed inside school The Telegraph Toughie 21 Nov 2018
Stiffness Thomas Joseph 13 Nov 2018
Stiff found in church on street near the centre of Kilmarnock
Yam yield Wall Street Journal 15 Sep 2018
Celebrity on church formality
Symbol of stiffness LA Times Daily 31 Aug 2018
Symbol of stiffness The Washington Post 31 Aug 2018
Cloth stiffener The Sun Two Speed 07 Aug 2018
Shirt stiffener New York Times 19 Jun 2018
Potato product Wall Street Journal 15 May 2018
Fabric stiffener, that is obtained chiefly from potatoes
Collar stiffener USA Today 15 Mar 2018
Fabric stiffener USA Today 14 Mar 2018
Formal manner
Symbol of stiffness
Shirt stiffener
Yam yield
Potato product
Stiff one in paper tends to be hot and cold in retrospect Irish Times Crosaire 31 Oct 2017
Carbohydrate that occurs in all green plants Irish Times Simplex 06 Oct 2017
Shirt stiffener Newsday 18 Sep 2017
Pressing need New York Times 16 Sep 2017
Laundry stiffener Family Time 11 Sep 2017
Collar stiffener Family Time 28 Aug 2017
Laundry-day spray Premier Sunday 27 Aug 2017
Provides a stiff one for celebrity going to church Irish Times Crosaire 08 Feb 2017
Holy person with cunning formality
Pressing need
*carbon and hydrogen – carbohydrate!
Young son told to bend gets stiff
Normally, carbohydrates leaving body are broken-down carbohydrates!
Stiffener for fabric of structure to right of street
Carbohydrate in green plants Irish Times Simplex 31 May 2016
Potato or rice, e.g LA Times Daily 18 Apr 2016
Collar stiffener LA Times Daily 15 Mar 2016
Stiffener The Washington Post 06 Feb 2016
Stiffener produced by celebrity chef? Not half! The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Aug 2015
Glamorous person at head of church shows formality
Dry cleaner's supply USA Today 04 Jun 2015
Prominent entrances to creature habitats in reserve
Formality shown by top of the bill before church? The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Feb 2015
Dry cleaner's supply
Stiffening stuff
Pasta or potato, e.g.
Collar stiffener
Laundry supply
Stiffener
Laundry stiffener
Sago, for instance
Shirt stiffener
Rice has it
Library paste ingredient
Collar stiffener
Carbs
Shirt stiffener
Pasta has it
Option at the launderer's
Corn product
Cleaner's spray
Stiffening agent
Collar stiffener
Stiffening agent
Stiffening stuff
Stiffening stuff
Spud component
Stiffness
Laundry supply
Possible laundry request
Boldness
Laundry stiffener
Stiffen
Calorie category
Same as 19 Across
Photosynthesis product
Complex carbohydrate
Laundry need
Stiffener celebrity required before church
Dry cleaner's supply
Stiffen, in a way
Fabric stiffener
Dietary requisite from celebrity chef, half-cut
Laundry additive
Shirt stiffener
Laundry supply
Laundry additive
Stamina
Calorie category
Ring around the collar
Stiffen, in a way
Vigor
Stiffen
Laundry item
Formality
Dieter's concern
Stuffiness
Chief source of dextrose.
Constituent of food.
Laundryman's question.
Energy: Colloq.
Laundry substance.
Strength and activity: Slang.
Stiffness.
Formality.
Washday item.
Laundry item.
Food substance.
Foodstuff.
Stiffener.
In shirts and backbones.
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