oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with watersassafras oil - oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant calamus oil - carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume safflower oil - oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints hydnocarpus oil - oil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia) pennyroyal oil - oil from European pennyroyal having a odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps croton oil - viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action animal oil - any oil obtained from animal substances essential oil, volatile oil - an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings lipid, lipide, lipoid - an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) mineral oil - a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener) motor oil - oil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor fusel oil - a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors stand oil - a thick oil comprised of linseed, tung, or soya oils which have been heated to over 300 C neroli oil - an odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring tall oil - an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants shale oil - oil extracted from oil shale by heating chaulmoogra oil - an oil from chaulmoogra trees; used in treatment of skin diseases and leprosy |