Synonyms for yeast
- noun
Definitions
- n. 1
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
Related words
- Word family
- yeasty
- Phrases
- baker's yeast brewer's yeast yeast bread yeast cake yeast infection autolyzed yeast extract
- Is a kind of
- fungus organism
Forms
- Plural
- yeasts → ferments, leavens, barms…
Example sentences
- ferment As the food particles ferment, they produce methane.
By length
- 4 letters
- barm
- 6 letters
- leaven2
- 7 letters
- ferment2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (leaven2 = 2 syllables).