PARAFFINE

Definition: PARAFFINE

PARAFFINE

Noun

1. A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: PARAFFINE

Dutch (paraffin), French (paraffin, paraffin wax), German (paraffins).

Expression using "PARAFFINE": native paraffine. Additional references.

Danish

ozokerit (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite), jordvoks (ader wax, earth wax, earthwax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Dutch

ozokeriet (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite), aardwas (ader wax, earth wax, earthwax, fibrous wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Finnish

vuorivaha (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, mountain tallow, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite), otsokeriitti (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite), maavaha (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

French

paraffine naturelle (native paraffin, native paraffine), ozokérite (native paraffin, native paraffine), ozocérite (native paraffin, native paraffine), cire minérale (native paraffin, native paraffine). (various references)

German

Ozokerit (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite), Erdwachs (ader wax, earth wax, earthwax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Greek 

οζοκηρίτης (ader wax, earth wax, earthwax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Hungarian

petróleum (kerosene, paraffin, paraffiny, petroleum, rock-tar), parafin (paraffin), paraffin (paraffin), kőolaj (crude, crude oil, mineral oil, paraffin, petroleum, rock oil). (various references)

Italian

ozocerite (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Pig Latin

araffinepay.(various references)

Portuguese

ozocerita (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Swedish

jordvax (ader wax, earth wax, fossil wax, mineral wax, native paraffin, native paraffine, ozocerite, ozokerite). (various references)

Turkish

parafin uygulamak (paraffin), parafin (kerosene, kerosine, paraffin). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PARAFFINE": paraffined. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: paraffin.

-2 letters: affaire, fanfare, firepan, piaffer.

-3 letters: affair, affine, fainer, farina, fraena, infare, niffer, panier, parian, piaffe, pirana, raffia, rapine.

-4 letters: afire, anear, apian, apnea, arena, arpen, faena, feria, fifer, finer, frena, infer, infra, naira, paean, parae, repin, ripen.

-5 letters: afar, airn, aper, area, aria, earn, fain, fair, fane, fare, fear, fern, fiar, fief, fife, fine, fire, firn, frae, frap, naif, nape, neap, near, neif, nipa, pain, pair, pane, para, pare, pean, pear, pein, peri, pian, pier, pina, pine, pirn, raff, raia, rain, rani, rape, reap, reif, rein, rife, riff, ripe.

+1 letter: paraffined.

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