Fermentation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FERMENTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a chemical change with effervescence, as by the action of yeast
• the fermentation process involved in the making of beers, wines, and spirits, in which sugars are converted to ethyl alcohol.
• the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat
• agitation; excitement
• The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
• A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
• a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
• a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
• a chemical change with effervescence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a chemical change with effervescence; an enzymatically controlled anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid); broadly; an enzymatically controlled transformation of an organic compound

Words related to FERMENTATION

fermentability24 fermentations18 fermentative20 fermentatively25

Words that contain FERMENTATION

fermentations18

How to use FERMENTATION in a sentence

• Now this is not because oxygen is excluded, inasmuch as it is now proved that free oxygen is not necessary for either fermentation or putrefaction.
• In one corner of the enclosure is a small house, where the eggs are hatched by artificial heat, produced by rice-chaff in a state of of fermentation.
• Paris is said to be in extreme fermentation, and we are in some anxiety for our friend M.
• It was chaos, and fermentation within the chaos the slow and rough but powerful and productive fermentation of unruly life.
• The period of fermentation was then concluded, and something like a settled condition of things brought about.
• This heating of the manure is caused by fermentation or the breaking down of the materials composing the manure and the forming of new compounds.
• Therefore fermentation will be more or less rapid according as the manure is piled loosely or in a close compact mass.
• A certain amount of moisture is necessary for the fermentation to take place, but if the manure is made quite wet the temperature is lowered and the fermentation is checked.
• The presence of considerable amounts of soluble nitrogen hastens the rapidity of the fermentation.
• When, in 1802, Tazewell appeared at the Norfolk bar, party politics were in a state of active fermentation.
• A smaller quantity increases the difficulty of maintaining the requisite temperature when fermentation begins to flag.
• But in Trinidad, where the fermentation is a lengthy one, the use of clay, though hallowed by custom, is quite unnecessary.
• Its yellow color was owing to the fact that the flour had had but one fermentation.
• An acid fermentation sets in, which after a few days is complete, when the vessel is tightly covered over and the product kept for use with animal food.
• He inferred a great fermentation in the whole aristocratic and military caste, and concluded that it was the moment to act.
• The villagers had made that for him out of Martian plants, using their complicated fermentation processes.
• It is then ground, mixed with water, roots added, and the whole boiled and set aside to complete fermentation.
• Your aim should be always to keep the center of the heap warm and in a state of fermentation.
• I would put in eight or ten bushels, or as much as will warm up the center of the new heap, and start fermentation.
• And the surface itself of the road, exasperated by innumerable hoofs and wheels, seemed to be in a kind of crawling fermentation.
• The English world was then in a state of theological fermentation.
• He was intoxicated, not by the fermentation of grapes, but by the magnitude and magnificence of his own gesture.
• It must be used fresh, and whilst its mixture with water produces fermentation.
• She reached home in 1849 to find a hot-bed of discussion and fermentation.
• It was held that fermentation is not dependent upon living organisms, and that fermentation may be excited in substances from which all living germs have been excluded.

Similar words containing FERMENTA without suffix tion

fermentable18 fermentative20 fermentations18 fermentability24 fermentatively25

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