Another word for oil
oil
n.
Liquid, greasy substance
melted fat, unction, lubricant; see fat, grease.
Common oils include: vegetable, animal, mineral, fixed, fatty, volatile, essential, machine, crude, lubricating, cottonseed, olive, canola, coconut, sunflower, peanut, safflower, castor, palm, corn, whale, sperm, linseed, drying, semidrying, nondrying, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, wormwood, candlenut, poppy-seed, soybean, sesame, cinnamon-bark, tung, cassia, vetiver, bergamot, wintergreen, cameline, palmarosa, chenopodium, ilang-ilang, cod-liver, halibut-liver, hake, fish; petroleum, kerosene, lard, tallow, oleo, oil of amber, oil of spike lavender, lanolin, turpentine.
Liquid substance used for power or illumination
petroleum, kerosene, coal oil, crude oil, liquid coal, rock oil, fossil fuel, fossil oil, cerate, liquid gold*; see also fuel, petroleum.
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Another word for oil
Excessive, ingratiating praise:
adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, incense2, slaver. (Informal) soft soap. Idiom: honeyed words. See praise
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oil. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/OIL
