The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word YEASTS
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What does YEASTS mean?
YEASTS noun- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- A frothy foam.
- To ferment.
- (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
- To exaggerate