Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of leaven is as below...

Barm :: Barm (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast..

Therf :: Therf (a.) Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc..

Azymite :: Azymite (n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven..

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm..

Tortilla :: Tortilla (n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone..

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..

Azymous :: Azymous (a.) Unleavened; unfermented.

Matzoth :: Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

Light :: Light (superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread..

Azyme :: Azyme (n.) Unleavened bread.

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

Cake :: Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape..

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

Unleavened :: Unleavened (a.) Not leavened; containing no leaven; as, unleavened bread..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Random Fonts

Most Popular