All starch synonyms
starch
S s adj starch
- farinaceous β consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- cliched β If you describe something as clichΓ©d, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.
- matter-of-course β occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
- commonplace β If something is commonplace, it happens often or is often found, and is therefore not surprising.
- garden variety β common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
verb starch
- gel β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- calcify β to convert or be converted into lime
- fossilized β Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- fossilise β Alternative spelling of fossilize.
- brazes β to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- lave β to wash; bathe.
- firmed β not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- fossilised β Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
- hosed β a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- concreted β constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- gelled β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- caseharden β to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
- firming β not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- jellied β containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- clean up β If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- gelling β Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
- curdled β Containing curds.
- casehardened β Simple past tense and past participle of caseharden.
noun starch
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- glucose β a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- galactose β a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- indomitableness β Quality of being indomitable.
- longanimity β patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance.
- durability β able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- fructose β Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fortitude β mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
- indefatigability β incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- durableness β Durability.
- indomitability β that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- fire β combustion
- kidneys β Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
- willfulness β deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- disaccharide β any of a group of carbohydrates, as sucrose or lactose, that yield monosaccharides on hydrolysis.
- wellbeing β a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- lustiness β The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
- nerve β one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- high spirits β lively or boisterous mood
- maltose β a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 β H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- dynamism β The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- impetuosity β the quality or condition of being impetuous.
- endurance β The fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.
- invincibility β incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued.
- dextrin β any of a group of sticky substances that are intermediate products in the conversion of starch to maltose: used as thickening agents in foods and as gums
- dextrose β Dextrose is a natural form of sugar that is found in fruits, honey, and in the blood of animals.
adjective starch
- workaday β of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.