Synonyms of the word

leavening

• adj. made light by aeration.
• n. a leavening agent.

imponderable

• adj. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
• adj. Difficult or impossible to comprehend or evaluate.
• n. (physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat,…
• n. An imponderable question.

leaven

• n. Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass.
• v. (transitive) To add a leavening agent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
• v. To rise or become larger.

matter

• n. Substance, material.
• n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
• n. An approximate amount or extent.
• n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
• n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
• n. (dated) Pus.
• v. (intransitive) To be important.
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
• v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

substance

• n. Physical matter; material.
• n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
• n. (theology) Hypostasis.