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| acepromazine |
an oily orange compound used to immobilize large animals, to stop nausea, and to tranquilize. |
| aniline |
an oily, colorless, poisonous liquid used in producing rubber, drugs, and dyes. [1/2 definitions] |
| balm |
the oily resin, exuded by various trees and shrubs, from which such an ointment is made. [1/4 definitions] |
| balsam |
a fragrant oily or resinous substance exuded by some shrubs or trees, such as the balsam fir. [1/3 definitions] |
| Brazil nut |
a large, oily triangular nut, the seed of a large tropical South American tree, or the tree itself. |
| candlenut |
a tree of tropical Asia and the South Seas that bears oily fruit or nuts, which are used by natives as candles and are processed for commercial use in paints and varnishes. [1/2 definitions] |
| cannel |
a variety of highly volatile, oily coal that burns readily and brightly; cannel coal. |
| castor1 |
an oily, brown, odorous secretion of the groin glands of the beaver, used in medicines and perfumes. [1/2 definitions] |
| chloral |
an oily, colorless liquid, used in making chloral hydrate and DDT. [1/2 definitions] |
| creosol |
a colorless or yellowish oily liquid, derived from beechwood tar, used as an antiseptic and found in creosote. |
| creosote |
an oily liquid commercially distilled from coal tar or wood for use as a wood preservative and antiseptic, and produced as a waste product in chimneys from the burning of wood as fuel. [1/2 definitions] |
| demulcent |
an oily or sticky substance used esp. to soothe irritation in mucous membranes. [1/2 definitions] |
| elemi |
any of various fragrant oily resins obtained from certain tropical trees, used in making varnishes, inks, ointments, and perfumes. |
| grease |
a semisolid oily substance, often used as a lubricant. [1/4 definitions] |
| greasy |
slippery or oily. [1/3 definitions] |
| lubricious |
slippery, oily, or smooth. [1/3 definitions] |
| nonoily |
combined form of oily. |
| octane |
any of a group of oily, colorless isomeric hydrocarbons, some of which are obtained during the distillation of petroleum. [1/2 definitions] |
| oleaginous |
of, concerning, or like oil; oily. [1/3 definitions] |
| oleic acid |
an oily acid, not soluble in water, that occurs in most animal and vegetable fats and oils, and is used in soap, ointments, and cosmetics. |
| opium poppy |
a Eurasian annual poppy having grayish-green leaves and bearing large white, red, pink, or purple flowers, and oily seeds, the unripe pods of which may be harvested for their opium-containing sap. |
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