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.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
- noun. a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
- noun. a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
- verb. treat with creosote
"creosoted wood"
Common word forms
creosoted, creosoter, creosotes, creosoting
Words from these letters
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