Oil definition
Oil is a noun meaning "a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water." It has 6 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with an example sentence.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 3
- How common
- Everyday word
Oil as a noun
a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
Same sense: oil color, oil colour
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Same sense: rock oil, crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Same sense: vegetable oil
Oil as a verb
cover with oil, as if by rubbing
"oil the wooden surface"
administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Same sense: anoint, anele, embrocate, inunct
Synonyms and antonyms
- oil color
- oil colour
- rock oil
- crude
- crude oil
- fossil oil
- petroleum
- vegetable oil
- anoint
- anele
- embrocate
- inunct
How to say oil
Oil has 1 syllable and rhymes with soil. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with oil
- soil
- boil
- spoil
- foil
- coil
- turmoil
- recoil
- toil
- gargoyle
- hoyle
- topsoil
- broil
OIL in word games
- Scrabble
- 3
- Words With Friends
- 4
- Anagrams
- 0
Is OIL a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check OIL in the word checker, or unscramble OIL to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.