8 Letter Words for Starched
starched
7 Letter Words for Starched
archest, charets, charted, chaster, crashed, dearths, detachs, echards, hardest, hardset, hatreds, rachets, ratched, ratches, redacts, scarted, scathed, stacher, threads, trashed
6 Letter Words for Starched
achter, arched, arches, ascher, cadets, cadres, carest, carets, carted, cartes, cashed, casher, casted, caster, caters, cedars, cedrat, chards, chared, chares, charet, charts, chased, chaser, chaste, cheats, chedar, cherts, crated, crates, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, decart, decast, derats, derths, detach, dretch, earths, echard, eschar, hasted, haster, haters, hatred, heards, hearst, hearts, hectar, raches, rachet, rashed, rathed, reacts, recash, recast, redact, rhedas, sachet, sacred, scared, scarth, scathe, scheat, scrath, sdeath, search, shader, shared, sheard, stader, starch, stared, steard, sterad, strade, taches, tashed, thrace, thread, traced, traces, trades, treads
5 Letter Words for Starched
acers, ached, acher, aches, acred, acres, acted, adret, arced, arces, archd, arche, archt, arest, arets, arsed, artsd, ashed, asher, ashet, aster, astre, cader, cades, cadet, cadre, cards, cared, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, cased, caser, caste, cater, cates, cedar, ceras, cerat, certs, cesar, cesta, chads, chard, chare, chars, chart, chase, chats, cheat, chert, chest, crash, crate, cread, creda, creds, crest, creta, daces, dachs, dares, darst, darts, dasht, datch, dater, dates, dears, deash, death, derah, derat, derth, detar, drate, drats, drest, dsect, eards, earsh, earst, earth, ecads, ecart, echar, ectad, escar, hades, hadst, hards, hared, hares, harst, harts, haste, hated, hater, hates, heads, heard, hears, heart, heast, heats, herds, raced, races, rache, rahed, ratch, rated, rates, rathe, raths, reach, react, reads, reast, resat, retch, rheas, rheda, sacre, sadhe, sared, sated, scare, scart, scath, sceat, scrae, scrat, serac, serta, shade, shard, share, shear, sheat, shred, stade, stare, stead, stear, stech, strad, strae, taces, tache, tachs, tahrs, tarde, tared, tares, tarse, taser, tchad, teach, teads, tears, techs, tehrs, teras, thars, theca, thrae, trace, trade, trads, trash, tread, treas, tsade
4 Letter Words for Starched
aced, acer, aces, ache, acre, acth, acts, adet, ahed, arch, arcs, ards, ared, ares, aret, arte, arts, astr, ated, ates, cade, cads, card, care, cars, cart, case, cash, cast, cate, cath, cats, ceas, cera, cert, cest, chad, char, chas, chat, cher, cred, cres, crts, dace, daer, daes, dahs, dare, dart, dase, dash, dast, date, dear, deas, desc, drat, drch, each, eard, ears, east, eath, eats, ecad, echt, edhs, eras, erat, ersh, erst, erth, esca, etas, etch, eths, hade, hads, haec, haes, hard, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, head, hear, heat, hera, herd, hers, hert, hest, hets, race, rach, rade, rads, rahs, rash, rast, rate, rath, rats, read, recd, recs, rect, reds, rehs, rest, retd, rets, rhea, rhet, sade, sadh, sadr, sard, sare, sart, satd, sate, scad, scar, scat, scet, sctd, seah, sear, seat, sech, sect, sert, seta, seth, shad, shea, shed, sher, shet, srac, stad, star, sted, ster, stra, stre, tace, tach, tade, tads, taed, tahr, tare, tars, tash, tche, tchr, tead, tear, teas, teca, tech, teds, tehr, tera, thae, thar, thea, thed, trac, trad, trah, tres
3 Letter Words for Starched
ace, ach, act, adc, ade, adh, ads, aer, aes, ahs, arc, ard, are, ars, art, ase, ash, ast, ate, cad, car, cat, cdr, cer, cha, che, chs, crs, crt, cst, cte, ctr, cts, dae, dah, dar, das, dat, dca, dea, dec, der, des, det, dha, dsr, ead, ear, eas, eat, ech, ect, edh, eds, ehs, era, erd, ers, ert, esc, esd, esr, est, eta, etc, eth, had, hae, has, hat, hed, her, hes, het, hrs, hts, rad, rah, ras, rat, rcd, rct, rea, rec, red, reh, res, rha, rhd, rhe, rte, sac, sad, sah, sar, sat, scd, sch, scr, sct, sea, sec, sed, ser, set, sha, she, shr, sht, sta, std, str, tad, tar, tas, tch, tdr, tea, tec, ted, ter, tes, tha, thd, the, tra, trs, tsh
Definitions for Starched
[1] a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C6 H1 0 O5 )n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
[2] a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
[3] starches, foods rich in natural starch.
[4] stiffness or formality, as of manner: He is so full of starch he can't relax.
[5] Informal . vigor; energy; stamina; boldness.
[6] to stiffen or treat with starch.
[7] to make stiff or rigidly formal (sometimes followed by up ).
[8] a polysaccharide composed of glucose units that occurs widely in plant tissues in the form of storage granules, consisting of amylose and amylopectin Related adjective: amylaceous
[9] Also called: amylum a starch obtained from potatoes and some grain: it is fine white powder that forms a translucent viscous solution on boiling with water and is used to stiffen fabric and in many industrial processes
[10] any food containing a large amount of starch, such as rice and potatoes
[11] stiff or pompous formality of manner or conduct
[12] (tr) to stiffen with or soak in starch
[13] (of a person) formal; stiff
Words related to Starched
starchrigid, stuffy, solid, stark, tight, tense, thick, wooden, creaky, arthritic, precise, polite, strengthen, reinforce, solidify, stabilize, drench, moisten, hose, scrub
Words nearby Starched
starchstar-struck, star-studded, stara zagora, starboard, starburst, starch, starch blocker, starch syrup, starch-reduced, starchy, stardom
Origin of Starched
1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English sterchen orig., to stiffen, Old English stercean to make stiff, strengthen, derivative of stearc stark; cognate with German stärken to strengthen; (noun) late Middle English starch(e ), sterche, derivative of the v.
Other words from Starched
starch·less , adjective
starch·like , adjective
o·ver·starch , verb (used with object)
o·ver·starched , adjective
un·starched , adjective
Word origin for Starched
Old English stercan (unattested except by the past participle sterced ) to stiffen; related to Old Saxon sterkian , Old High German sterken to strengthen, Dutch sterken ; see stark
Synonyms for Starched
rigid, hard, immalleable, impliable, inelastic, nonflexible, set, taut, unbending
