Crossword-Solution: KEROSENE 8 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Kerosene n. 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.

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KEROSENE anagram SOREKNEE

We have 58 clues for the answer “KEROSENE”

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Lantern fill 1 answer
Flammable oil 1 answer
Fuel for jet engines. 1 answer
Fuel in use since 1852. 1 answer
Fuel whose name comes from the Greek for "wax" 1 answer
Fuel, solvent or illuminant 1 answer
Heater fuel 1 answer
It's called paraffin oil in the U.K. 1 answer
Jet fuel component 1 answer
Jet fuel ingredient 1 answer
Jet fuel, mainly 1 answer
Lamp liquid 1 answer
Lamp oil 1 answer
Fuel that built the Rockefeller fortune 1 answer
Lantern filler 1 answer
Lantern lighter 1 answer
Lantern liquid 1 answer
Paraffin oil (E, not I) 1 answer
Portable stove fuel 1 answer
Shale oil product 1 answer
Source of the Rockefeller fortune 1 answer
Standard Oil's first stock-in-trade 1 answer
What Brits call "paraffin oil" 1 answer
What once lit street lamps 1 answer
paraffin oil 1 answer
product Petroleum distillate 1 answer
Coal oil 1 answer
Cheap light fuel. 1 answer
Early Rockefeller product 1 answer
Camper's fuel, perhaps 1 answer
Camp combustible 1 answer
Lamp filler 2 answers
Some rocket fuel 2 answers
BITUMINOUS shale product 2 answers
*Lantern fuel 2 answers
Camping fuel 2 answers
liquid mixture distilled from petroleum and used as a fuel or solvent 2 answers
Camper's supply 3 answers
Jet fuel? 3 answers
Lamp fuel 3 answers
Lamplighter 3 answers
Lamp lighter 3 answers
Rocket fuel 3 answers
Lamp type 4 answers
Petroleum distillate 5 answers
aviation fuel 5 answers
Type of fuel 8 answers
CAMPER FUEL 10 answers
CARBON FUEL PRODUCED BY DISTILLATION OF COAL 10 answers
Petroleum product 11 answers
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Sentences with KEROSENE (5)

Their volubility drowned every other noise in the place, and the overheated store sounded of their spirited language as it reeked of pipe smoke, damp woolens, and kerosene.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The old woman who can never learn not to put the kerosene can on the stove, may yet be able to tell fortunes, to persuade a backward child to grow, to cure warts, or to tell people what to do with a young girl who has gone melancholy.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The Laphams now burned kerosene, of course, and they had no furnace in the winter; these were the only hardships the Colonel complained of; but he said that as soon as the company got to paying dividends again,--he was evidently proud of the outlays that for the present prevented this,--he should put in steam heat and naphtha-gas.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
All up and down the long table, where the kerosene lamps reflected themselves deep in the oil-cloth cover, one heard the incessant sounds of mastication, and saw the uninterrupted movement of great jaws.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
She always filled and lit it with her own hands, keeping a kettle of kerosene on a zinc-covered shelf in a closet.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with KEROSENE (3)

God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.
S. Jane Sloat In the Voice of a Minor Saint
The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop. "To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!" Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasph…
Jeannette Walls Half Broke Horses
I used to think love was two people suckingon the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I whiffed the crushed walnuts of your nape, traced jackals in the snow-covered tombstones of your teeth. I used to think love was a non-stop saxophone soloin the lungs, till I hung with you like a pair of sneakersfrom a phone line, and you promised to always smellthe rose in my kerosene. I used to think love was terminalpelvic ballet, till you let me jog beside while you pe…
Jeffrey McDaniel
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 60 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).