Dictionary Entry
creosote
creosote is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.
- 2transitive verb
To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
- 3noun
a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
- 4noun
a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
- 5verb
treat with creosote
"creosoted wood"
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