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"YEASTS" is a plural of: yeast. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Uni-cellular microorganisms, some of which are responsible for the alcoholic fermentation of must. Some others cause spoilage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A general term for single-celled rounded fungi that reproduce by budding. Brewers' and bakers' yeasts are Saccharomyces cerevisiae; therapeutic dried yeast is dried yeast. (references) |
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Crosswords: YEASTS |
| English words defined with "YEASTS": class Hemiascomycetes ♦ genus Saccharomyces, genus Schizosaccharomyces ♦ Hemiascomycetes ♦ Saccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "YEASTS": bottom fermentation beer, bottom fermented beer, bottoms ♦ candidosis, carboxylase ♦ deidrogenasi ♦ ethylalcohol ♦ fermentable sugar, fleur, flor character, flor yeasts, flowers of wine ♦ giant colonies ♦ high fermentation beer ♦ low fermentation beer ♦ non-fermentable sugar ♦ ordinary alcohol ♦ Saccharomycetales ♦ top fermentation beer, top fermented beer ♦ water heart, water soak, watercore, wet heart, wetwood, wild yeasts. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Histopathology of lung shows numerous extracellular yeasts of Cryptococcus neoformans within an alveolar space. Yeasts show narrow-base budding and characteristic variation in size. Credit: CDC. |  | Needle aspiration biopsy of lung showing yeasts of Histoplasma capsulatum. Methenamine silver stain. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This includes the killer phenotype, characteristic of yeasts. (references) | |
Fungi, which are primitive plant forms, include yeasts and molds. (references) | ||
Candida yeasts usually live in the mouth, gastrointestinal tract, and vagina without causing symptoms . Symptoms develop only when Candida becomes overgrown in these sites. (references) | ||
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| "YEASTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "YEASTS" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "YEASTS": flor yeasts ♦ wild yeasts. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "YEASTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gaersvampe, gær. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gisten (ferment), gistcellen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hiiva (yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | levures. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hefen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζυμομύκητες, ζυμομύκητας (ferment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lieviti, blastomiceti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeastsay leveduras, lêvedos. (various references) дрожжи (barm, ferment, leaven, yeast). (various references) levaduras, levadura (brewer's yeast, leaven, leavening, yeast). (various references) jästsvampar, jäst (leaven, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "YEASTS" (pronounced yē"sts) |
| 4 | -ē" s t s | beasts, feasts, priests. |
| 3 | -s t s | abolitionists, abortionists, activists, adjusts, agonists, agronomists, analysts, anarchists, anesthesiologists, animists, antagonists, anthropologists, apologists, aquarists, archaeologists, archivists, armrests, arrests, arsonists, artists, assists, atheists, attests, ballasts, balloonists, baptists, bassists, behaviorists, bequests, bicyclists, biologists, blasts, boasts, boosts, botanists, breakfasts, breasts, broadcasts, bursts, busts, capitalists, cardiologists, careerists, cartoonists, castes, casts, catalysts, centralists, centrists, chartists, chemists, chests, chloroplasts, clarinetists, coasts, cohosts, colonialists, colonists, columnists, communists, conformists, conquests, conservationists, consists, consumerists, contests, contexts, contrasts, costs, crests, criminologists, crusts, cultists, cyclists, cysts, dentists, dermatologists, digests, disgusts, distrusts, divests, druggists, dusts, ecologists, economists, editorialists, elitists, endocrinologists, enlists, enthusiasts, entomologists, environmentalists, epidemiologists, ethicists, evangelists, exhausts, exhibitionists, exists, extremists, fascists, fasts, fatalists, federalists, feminists, fetishists, finalists, firsts, fists, flavorists, florists, forecasts, forests, frosts, fundamentalists, futurists, generalists, geneticists, geologists, ghosts, guests, guideposts, guitarists, gusts, gymnasts, gynecologists, harpists, harvests, headrests, herbalists, hobbyists, hoists, hosts, humanists, humorists, hygienists, idealists, ideologists, illusionists, imperialists, impressionists, individualists, industrialists, infests, insists, institutionalists, instrumentalists, interests, internationalists, internists, interventionists, invests, isolationists, jests, joists, journalists, jurists, kremlinologists, lambastes, lampposts, lasts, leftists, linguists, lists, lobbyists, locusts, loyalists, lyricists, machinists, manifests, masts, medalists, meteorologists, militarists, mists, modernists, molests, monarchists, monetarists, moralists, motorcyclists, motorists, nationalists, naturalists, nests, neurologists, newscasts, nihilists, nonconformists, novelists, numismatists, nutritionists, obstructionists, oncologists, ophthalmologists, opportunists, optimists, optometrists, orthodontists, orthopedists, outbursts, outcasts, outposts, pacifists, paleontologists, panelists, pastes, pasts, pathologists, persists, pessimists, pests, pharmacists, philanthropists, physicists, pianists, poltergeists, populists, posts, pragmatists, preexists, preservationists, propagandists, protagonists, protectionists, protests, provosts, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, publicists, purists, quests, racists, radiologists, rainforests, rapists, realists, receptionists, recidivists, reformists, Reinvests, requests, reservationists, reservists, resists, rests, retests, revisionists, revolutionists, rightists, ripostes, roasts, rusts, satirists, schists, scientists, secessionists, secularists, segregationists, seismologists, semifinalists, separatists, signposts, socialists, sociologists, soloists, specialists, spiritualists, statists, sternposts, strategists, stylists, suffragists, suggests, supremacists, survivalists, symbolists, tastes, technologists, telecasts, televangelists, terrorists, testes, tests, texts, theorists, therapists, thrusts, toasts, toothpastes, tourists, toxicologists, traditionalists, trusts, twists, typists, ultranationalists, unionists, urologists, vests, violinists, virologists, waists, wastes, wrists. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sayest. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: asset, easts, essay, sates, sayst, seats, stays, styes, tasse, yeast. | |
-2 letters: ates, ayes, east, easy, eats, etas, eyas, sate, says, seas, seat, seta, sets, stay, stey, stye, tass, teas, tyes, yeas. | |
-3 letters: ass, ate, aye, ays, eat, ess, eta, sae, sat, say, sea, set, sty, tae, tas, tea, tye, yea, yes, yet. | |
-4 letters: ae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: ecstasy, estrays, lysates, stayers. | |
+2 letters: actressy, epistasy, essayist, shanteys, strayers, styraxes, syntaxes. | |
+3 letters: amethysts, andesytes, artlessly, autolyses, catalyses, cytasters, dynasties, ecdysiast, essayists, eyestalks, forestays, headstays, homestays, hysterias, leastways, mateyness, overstays, sensately, spymaster, sternways, sybarites, typecases, typecasts, wasteways, yeastiest. | |
+4 letters: abstrusely, assertedly, astrocytes, asymptotes, asyndetons, bystanders, cityscapes, dialysates, drysalters, ecdysiasts, essayistic, eyestrains, hairstyles, hypostases, methylases, paymasters, pityriases, platypuses, satyriases, sensuality, soothsayer, spymasters, steelyards, strathspey, stylobates, sylvanites, sympathies, sympathise, sympatries, syncopates, syndicates, synthetase, systematic, tactlessly, tyrannises, tyrosinase, yeastiness, yesterdays. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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