Crossword clues for kerosene
kerosene
- Twisted knee, having stood in oil
- They focus here, finally, certainly taking in church after confusion
- Type of fuel
- Liquid fuel
- Lamp oil
- Lamp lighter
- Camp combustible
- Rocket fuel
- Paraffin oil
- Lamp liquid
- Early Rockefeller product
- Camping fuel
- Camper's fuel, perhaps
- What once lit street lamps
- What Brits call "paraffin oil"
- Standard Oil's first stock-in-trade
- Lantern liquid
- Lantern fill
- It's called paraffin oil in the U.K
- Fuel that built the Rockefeller fortune
- Shale oil product
- Lamp filler
- Some rocket fuel
- Lantern filler
- Lamp fuel
- Camper's supply
- Jet fuel component
- Jet fuel, mainly
- A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
- Flammable oil
- Fuel, solvent or illuminant
- Petroleum distillate
- Heater fuel
- Petroleum product
- One reeks after changing oil
- Fuel smoke rose near house
- Lantern fuel
- Paraffin oil (E, not I)
- Paraffin oil’s odd treatment for sore knee
- In Kentucky, got higher energy fuel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kerosene \Ker"o*sene`\, n. [Gr. ? wax.] An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series, having from 10 to 16 carbon atoms in each molecule, and having a higher boiling point (175 - 325[deg] C) than gasoline or the petroleum ethers, and a lower boling point than the oils.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context Canadian US English) A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel; (context British English) paraffin.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Kerosene, also known as lamp oil, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid widely used as a fuel in industry and households. Its name derives from (keros) meaning wax, and was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a genericized trademark. It is sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage. The term "kerosene" is common in much of India, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
Kerosene is usually called paraffin in the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, East Africa and South Africa. A more viscous paraffin oil is used as a laxative. A waxy solid extracted from petroleum is called paraffin wax.
Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft ( jet fuel) and some rocket engines, and is also commonly used as a cooking and lighting fuel and for fire toys such as poi. In parts of Asia, where the price of kerosene is subsidized, it fuels outboard motors on small fishing boats. World total kerosene consumption for all purposes is equivalent to about 1.2 million barrels per day.
To prevent confusion between kerosene and the much more flammable and volatile gasoline, some jurisdictions regulate markings or colorings for containers used to store or dispense kerosene. For example, in the United States, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requires that portable containers used at retail service stations be colored blue, as opposed to red (for gasoline) or yellow (for Diesel fuel).
Kerosene is the first studio album by American country artist Miranda Lambert. The album was released March 15, 2005 by Epic Nashville Records and was produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke. After placing third in the television competition, Nashville Star in 2003, Lambert signed with Epic Nashville in 2004. The album spawned four Top 40 Billboard Country Chart singles; however, only the title track was a major hit, peaking at number 15.
Kerosene is a type of fuel, but it can also refer to:
- power kerosene; see tractor vaporising oil.
- a lubricant; see mineral oil.
- a song by Bad Religion from their album Recipe for Hate.
- a song by Big Black from their album Atomizer.
- a song by The Bottle Rockets.
- a song by Crystal Castles, from their album (III).
- Kerosene (album), the debut album of Miranda Lambert.
:* "Kerosene" (song), the title track to this album
- a novel written by Chris Wooding
"Kerosene" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released in September 2005 as the third single and title-track to her debut album of the same name. The song is about a break-up, where the narrator has enough with her boyfriend and starts burning his stuff with kerosene. It reached number 15 on the Hot Country Songs charts, becoming Lambert's first Top 20 country hit. It also peaked at number 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The working title of the song was "Kerosene (Love's Givin' Up on Me)".
The accompanying music video for the song, directed by Trey Fanjoy, shows Lambert carrying a tin of kerosene and emptying out as a trail on the countryside that leads back to her ex-boyfriend's house, igniting the trail so the house burns down as well. The song was Lambert's first to be certified Gold by the RIAA on March 6, 2006. It also gave Lambert her first Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Usage examples of "kerosene".
My parents, to their credit, allowed me the full indulgence of my hobby, although my mother often worried about germs and fire from the kerosene I used to degrease the bones.
Attempting to use it as a food is as foolish as trying to burn gasolene or kerosene in an ordinary wood stove.
Petyr sloshed half a can of kerosene across its carapace at almost the same time that Loes threw his torch at the thing.
Juana called out something, and he dropped the sarape and thrust the gun into his waistband before reaching down through the opening to emerge holding a smoking kerosene lantern.
The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.
The Technics could supply clothes, tools, kerosene, matches, and a whole lot of other stuff that was hard to come by otherwise.
While the boys held the calf still, Felix squeezed the testes to the bottom of the sac, sliced and flung them into the coals, then doused the wound with kerosene.
Saul calls up rustic Sears catalogue scenes of fathers and sons in plaid flannel, lighting kerosene lanterns in front of pup tents and smiling at each other in mutual appreciation of their primogenital heritage.
Every stormer received two bags filled with dry twigs and grass, two tins of kerosene about half full, and a dozen torches.
The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.
Utterly unschooled, he seemed to intuit the workings of engines and motors, be they powered by diesel oil, gasoline, kerosene, air or electricity.
The milk-glass shades of the old kerosene lamps, increasingly valuable as antiques, tremble, like the panes in the breakfront back on Joseph street.
Started right out by building a fine cabin, used buttonwood posts to frame it up, had wood shutters and canvas flaps on the front windows, brought in a wood stove and a kerosene lamp and a galvanized tub for anyone that cared to wash.
White House, it got more protection than a twenty-year-old coonhound with bad breath and a kerosene ass.
When crokinole was introduced into Homeburg twenty odd years ago, the kerosene wagon had to make an extra mid-week trip.