fermentableadj.
/fəˈmɛntəbl/, /fəːˈmɛntəbl/, U.S. /fərˈmɛn(t)əb(ə)l/ 1. Capable of being fermented.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective]
tickle1534
gunpowder1598
agitable1603
activable1606
thatched1606
excitable1609
powdery1611
incensible1614
hot-bloodeda1616
warm-headed1690
combustible1698
fermentable1731
intoxicablea1734
tindery1753
inflammable1800
pattypan1858
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
erethic1888
arousable1890
hyper1942
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > chemical processes or reactions > [adjective] > fermentation > capable of being fermented
fermentescible1684
fermentable1731
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Wine Fermentable Bodies.
1795 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 271 This fermentable sap portends the dry-rot.
1850 C. G. B. Daubeny Introd. Atomic Theory (ed. 2) x. 347 The cells which contain the saccharine and other fermentable matters.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 96 Organic fermentable liquids change very slowly.
2. Capable of causing fermentation. rare.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > chemical processes or reactions > [adjective] > fermentation > capable of causing fermentation
fermentescible1684
fermentable1830
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 94 The fermented liquor must be separated as much as possible from the yeast or fermentable matter.
Derivatives
ˌfermentaˈbility n. the quality of being fermentable.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > chemical processes or reactions > [noun] > fermentation > quality of being fermentable
fermentability1790
1790 Ann. Reg. 1788 Useful Projects 85/2 Newman..was unwilling to admit of the fermentability of milk.
1912 A. C. Chapman Brewing iv. 55 A wort having just the degree of fermentability required.
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adj.1731