Is “Starch” a Scrabble word?

1.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.

2.(nutrition) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

3.A stiff, formal manner; formality.

1.To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

“She starched her blouses.”

1.Stiff; precise; rigid.