oil
3 letters · I L O · Scrabble-style score 3 · Words With Friends-style score 4
What it meant in 1913
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), public domain. Listed there as: n.
Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil , whale oil , rock oil , etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol .
Anagrams
No other word in our list uses exactly these letters.
Hooks
Add a letter in front: boil, coil, foil, moil, noil, roil, soil, toil. Add a letter at the back: oils, oily.
Shorter words inside it
2 shorter words in our list are hiding inside oil.
2 letters
Its lists
- 3-letter words
- Words starting with O
- Words ending with L
- Words containing I
- Words containing L
- Words containing O
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