yeast

yeast is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.
2. noun. Spume, or foam, of water.
3. noun. A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.
4. noun. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
5. noun. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

   Synonyms: barm

Synonyms

barm

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in yeast:

teasy, yeats

Common word forms

yeasts, yeasted, yeasting, yeastless

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