Associations to the word «Shortening»
Noun
- Baking
- Url
- Dough
- Flour
- Rub
- Vowel
- Pastry
- Contraction
- Frying
- Butter
- Deformation
- Deformity
- Powder
- Raisin
- Tendon
- Fat
- Muscle
- Lifespan
- Vanilla
- Crust
- Syllable
- Salt
- Soybean
- Sugar
- Ingredient
- Curvature
- Deletion
- Bake
- Biscuit
- Uplift
- Stiffness
- Egg
- Velocity
- Salad
- Consonant
- Duration
- Topping
- Limb
- Sail
- Soy
- Milk
- Filament
- Cinnamon
- Curve
- Fiber
- Widening
- Chromosome
- Cake
- Relaxation
- Quart
- Yeast
- Fore
- Shear
- Raising
- Thrusting
- Instability
- Twitch
- Phonology
- Apoptosis
- Phosphorylation
- Reduction
Adjective
Wiktionary
SHORTENING, noun. (US) (cooking) Solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.
SHORTENING, noun. Verbal noun of shorten
SHORTENING, verb. Present participle of shorten
Dictionary definition
SHORTENING, noun. Fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods.
SHORTENING, noun. Act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening".
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