oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: oil
ipa: /ɔɪl/
ipa: [ɔɪ(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /ɔl/
homophone: Oi'll
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: oils
form: oyl
Etymology: From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Oil is mostly found in Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.
glosses: Liquid fat.
glosses: Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
examples: text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2020:
glosses: Petroleum.
examples: text: Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.
ref: 1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist, page 89:
glosses: An oil painting.
examples: text: I prefer to paint in oil
qualifier: painting
glosses: Oil paint.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun oil
word: abrasin oil
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word: absinthe oil
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word: add oil
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word: almond oil
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word: Athabasca oil sands
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word: avocado oil
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word: baby oil
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word: banana oil
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word: beard oil
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word: beech oil
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word: ben oil
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word: big oil
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word: bio-oil
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word: bone oil
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word: bromoil
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word: bronzing oil
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word: bunker oil
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word: burn the midnight oil
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word: butteroil
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word: butter oil
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word: cajuput oil
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word: Candy oil
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word: canola oil
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word: carap oil
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word: carrier oil
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word: Carron oil
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word: cast oil on troubled waters
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word: castor oil
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word: castor-oil
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word: castor oil plant
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word: chili oil
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word: citronella oil
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word: coal oil
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word: coconut oil
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word: codliver oil
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word: cod-liver oil
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word: cod liver oil
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word: colza oil
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word: concrete oil of wine
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word: cooking oil
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word: coquito oil
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word: corn oil
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word: cost oil
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word: cottonseed oil
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word: crab oil
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word: croton oil
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word: crude oil
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word: Danish oil
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word: dead oil
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word: deoil
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word: dinkum oil
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word: dino oil
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word: dinosaur oil
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word: Dippel's oil
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word: drying oil
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word: earth oil
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word: engine oil
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word: enoil
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word: enoiling
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word: essential oil
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word: ethiodized oil
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word: evening primrose oil
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word: fatty oil
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word: fish oil
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word: fixed oil
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word: flaxseed oil
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word: fog oil
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word: fork oil
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word: fossil oil
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word: fuel oil
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word: fusel oil
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word: gas oil
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word: gear oil
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word: good oil
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word: gorli oil
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word: grapeseed oil
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word: grass oil
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word: green oil
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word: gutter oil
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word: hair oil
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word: haliver oil
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word: hash oil
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word: heating oil
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word: honey oil
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word: hydraulic oil
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word: illuminating oil
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word: immersion oil
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word: infused oil
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word: joint oil
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word: juniper oil
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word: kekune oil
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word: kikuel oil
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word: Koeme oil
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word: lamp oil
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word: lamp-oil
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word: light oil
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word: linseed oil
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word: lubricating oil
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word: macassar oil
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word: Malabar oil
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word: margosa oil
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word: midnight oil
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word: mineral oil
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word: mink oil
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word: mirbane oil
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word: motor oil
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word: mustard oil
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word: neck oil
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word: neem oil
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word: nonoil
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word: North Sea oil
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word: oilable
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word: oil and water
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word: oil and water don't mix
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word: oil baron
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word: oil barrel
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word: oilbath
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word: oil bath
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word: oil beetle
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word: oilberg
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word: oilbird
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word: oilbox
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word: oil bug
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word: oil burner
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word: oil burner route
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word: oil-burning
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word: oil cake
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word: oilcake
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word: oil can
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word: oilcan
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word: oil-canning
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word: oil change
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word: oilcloth
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word: oilcoat
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word: oil company
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word: oilcrop
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word: oilcup
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word: oil diaper
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word: oil-digger
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word: oildom
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word: oil-down
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word: oil down
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word: oil drum
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word: oiler
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word: oil field
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word: oil filter
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word: oil-fired
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word: oil firing
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word: oilfish
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word: oilgae
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word: oil gas
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word: Oilgate
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word: oil green
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word: oiligarch
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word: oiligarchy
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word: oilionaire
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word: oilish
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word: oil lamp
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word: oilless
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word: oillike
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word: oil-lit
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word: oilman
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word: oil mill
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word: oilmonger
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word: oilnut
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word: oilocracy
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word: oil of brick
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word: oil of bricks
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word: oil of lemon eucalyptus
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word: oil of mirbane
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word: oil of myrbane
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word: oil of olives
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word: oil of palm
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word: oil of petre
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word: oil of spike
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word: oil of talc
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word: oil of turpentine
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word: oil of vitriol
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word: oil of wine
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word: oil of wintergreen
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word: oilometer
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word: oil opera
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word: oil paint
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word: oil painting
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word: oil palm
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word: oil pan
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word: oilpaper
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word: oil-patch
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word: oil patch
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word: oilpatch
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word: oil pipeline
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word: oil platform
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word: oilpresser
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word: oilpressing
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word: oilproof
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word: oil pull
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word: oil pulling
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word: oil radish
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word: oil rain lamp
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word: oil refinery
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word: oil refining
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word: oil reservoir
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word: oil-rich
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word: oilrig
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word: oil rig
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word: oil sand
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word: oilseed
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word: oil-seed camellia
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word: oil shale
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word: oilskin
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word: oil slick
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word: oilsmoke
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word: oil spill
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word: oil spot
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word: oil spotting
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word: oilstone
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word: oil stove
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word: oilstove
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word: oil swishing
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word: oil tanker
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word: oil terminal
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word: oil test
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word: oiltight
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word: oil trash
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word: oil tycoon
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word: oil up
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word: oilway
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word: oil well
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word: oilworks
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word: oily
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word: oiticica oil
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word: old-oil
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word: oleo oil
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word: olive oil
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word: olive pomace oil
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word: ore-bulk-oil carrier
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word: palm kernel oil
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word: palm oil
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word: palm-oil
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word: paraffin oil
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word: peak oil
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word: peanut oil
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word: penetrating oil
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word: peppermint oil
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word: petre oil
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word: petroil
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word: phulwara oil
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word: pine oil
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word: pinhoen oil
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word: pongamia oil
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word: poonga oil
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word: poppyseed oil
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word: potato oil
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word: pour oil on troubled waters
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word: preen oil
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word: process oil
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word: pulza oil
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word: rape oil
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word: rapeseed oil
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word: rind oil spot
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word: rind-oil spot
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word: rock oil
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word: roosa oil
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word: rose oil
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word: rubbing oil
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word: Russia oil
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word: salad oil
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word: salad-oil
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word: seed oil
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word: Seneca oil
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word: sesame oil
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word: shale oil
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word: shaving oil
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word: smooth as oil
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word: snake oil
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word: snake oil salesman
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word: solar oil
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word: soybean oil
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word: soyoil
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word: sperm oil
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word: sperm whale oil
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word: spike oil
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word: stomach oil
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word: stone oil
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word: storm oil
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word: strap oil
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word: strike oil
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word: sump oil
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word: sunflower oil
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word: suntan oil
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word: sweet oil
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word: take your oil
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word: tall oil
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word: teak oil
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word: tea oil
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word: tea oil camellia
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word: tea oil plant
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word: tea tree oil
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word: the squeaky wheel gets the oil
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word: tied oil
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word: tight oil
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word: toxic oil syndrome
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word: tractor vaporising oil
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word: train oil
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word: transmission oil
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word: truffle oil
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word: tung oil
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word: tung oil tree
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word: valve oil
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word: vegetable oil
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word: virgin oil
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word: virgin olive oil
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word: whale oil
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word: wood oil
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word: wood-oil
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word: wool oil
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word: worm oil
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word: zdravets oil