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yeast

Yeast is a 5 letter word which starts with the letter Y and ends with the letter T for which we found 3 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Spume or foam of water.
(n.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word yeast is a 5 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for yeast is: yeast


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