Cornstarch

Definition: Cornstarch

Cornstarch

Noun

1. Starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener.

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Starch made from corn and used in foods as a thickening agent, in making corn syrup and sugars, and in the manufacture of adhesives and sizes for papers and textiles. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Cornstarch

Synonym: cornflour (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cornstarch

English words defined with "cornstarch": blancmange ♦ corn sugar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cornstarch": coal dust ♦ DRY-STARCH OPERATOR ♦ end trimmer ♦ FILTER OPERATOR, FILTERING-MACHINE TENDER ♦ HEADING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ LOZENGE MAKER ♦ NOODLE MAKER. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	New uses for cornstarch continue to surprise us. for example, when ARS scientists married starch to a synthetic chemical, they managed to create a product so thirsty, it could absorb hundreds of times its own weight in water. Someone called it SuperSlurper, and the name stuck. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use broth or bouillon instead and thicken with cornstarch. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cornstarch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		miell misri (corn-flour, meal). (various references)

Czech		kukuřièný škrob (cornflour). (various references)

Danish		majsstivelse (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

Dutch		maisstijfsel (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

Finnish		maissitärkkelys (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

French		corn flour (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour), maïzena (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour), amidon de maïs (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour). (various references)

German		Maisstärke (corn starch, cornflour, maize starch). (various references)

Italian		amido di mais (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

Pig Latin		ornstarchcay

Portuguese		amido de milho (corn starch, cornflour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kukuruzni štirak. (various references)

Spanish		maicena (cornflour). (various references)

Swedish		majsstärkelse (corn starch, corn starch US, cornflour, maize starch, maize starch GB). (various references)

Turkish		mısır nişastası. (various references)

Ukrainian		кукурудзяний крохмаль. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cornstarch": cornstarches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cornstarch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cornstrach. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-n-o-r-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: chantors, trochars.
	-3 letters: anchors, archons, cantors, carroch, carrots, cartons, chantor, charros, contras, cratons, ranchos, rancors, scratch, trocars, trochar.
	-4 letters: accost, acorns, actors, anchor, archon, cantor, cantos, caroch, carrot, carton, castor, chants, charro, charrs, charts, coacts, concha, conchs, contra, corsac, costar, cotans, cranch, cratch, craton, crotch, nachos, narcos, norths, octans, racons, rancho, rancor, rostra.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-n-o-r-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: cornstarches.
	+3 letters: noncharacters, transthoracic.
	+4 letters: countercharges, countermarches.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
cornstarch	65
argo cornstarch	18
cornstarch substitute	8
cornstarch pudding	4
clay cornstarch	4
cornstarch craving	4
cornstarch use	3
cornstarch density	3
cornstarch powder	3
cornstarch recipe	3
carbohydrate cornstarch	3
body cornstarch powder recipe	2
cornstarch infection yeast	2
cornstarch modified	2
cornstarch substitution	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cornstarch

Definition: Cornstarch

Cornstarch

Noun

Specialty Definition: Cornstarch

Synonym: Cornstarch

Synonyms within Context: Cornstarch

Food

Crosswords: Cornstarch

Photo Album: Cornstarch

Non-Fiction Usage: Cornstarch

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cornstarch

Modern Translation: Cornstarch

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