Word Meaning

Meaning of "yeast" and the crossword clue

- Baking agent
- Bread ingredient
- Bread leavening
- Bread-raising agent
- Brewing ingredient
- Cause of ferment as yet unclear
- Dough ingredient
- Dough riser
- Fermenting agent
- Fermenting agent from rye, Astrid
- found in fungi
- Leaven
- Leavening agent
- Raising agent
- Uplifting fungus?
- Use it to get a rise out of the staff of Life
- 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.
- Spume, or foam, of water.
- 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.