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 ferment is as below...

Promottion :: Promottion (n.) The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment..

Zymase :: Zymase (n.) A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly..

Brew :: Brew (v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation..

Diastase :: Diastase (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar..

Mahaled :: Mahaled (n.) A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared..

Fermentative :: Fermentative (a.) Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process..

Mother :: Mother (n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation..

Fermentation :: Fermentation (n.) A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings..

Flower :: Flower (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer..

Heat :: Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill..

Mutage :: Mutage (n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

Work :: Work (v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor..

Preferment :: Preferment (n.) The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Acetous :: Acetous (a.) Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation..

Maltose :: Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power..

Ferment :: Ferment (v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

Cachiri :: Cachiri (n.) A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry..

Lebban :: Lebban (n.) Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same..

Random Fonts

Most Popular