Crossword-Solution: CREOSOTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Creosote | n. | Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood. |
| Creosote | v. t. | To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CREOSOTE | anagram | ESCOOTER |
We have 29 clues for the answer “CREOSOTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Preservative for wood. | 1 answer |
| Oily antiseptic. | 1 answer |
| Dark brown oil obtained from coal tar | 1 answer |
| Coat on a tie | 1 answer |
| Piling coating | 1 answer |
| Chimney wall deposit | 1 answer |
| Chimney cleaner's target | 1 answer |
| A dark brown oil distilled from coal tar used as wood preservative | 1 answer |
| Wood preservative derived from tar | 1 answer |
| Preserve order initially, drunk among native Americans | 1 answer |
| TIMBER preservative | 1 answer |
| Tucson shrub | 1 answer |
| Wood perservative | 1 answer |
| Wood preservative and disinfectant | 1 answer |
| Wood-preserving liquid | 1 answer |
| Wood preservative | 2 answers |
| Wood preserver. | 2 answers |
| Flue deposit | 2 answers |
| Coal-tar product | 3 answers |
| Flue residue | 4 answers |
| CHIMNEY RESIDUE | 11 answers |
| A DARK OILY LIQUID OBTAINED BY DISTILLATION OF COAL TAR | 11 answers |
| COAL tar product | 13 answers |
| Disinfectant. | 25 answers |
| Tar | 35 answers |
| Tar product | 35 answers |
| lubricant | 42 answers |
| antiseptic | 43 answers |
| Oil Producer | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CREOSOTE (5)
The long hours he passed alone with Trina in the “Dental Parlors,” silent, only for the scraping of the instruments and the pouring of bud-burrs in the engine, in the foul atmosphere, overheated by the little stove and heavy with the smell of ether, creosote, and stale bedding, had all the charm of secret appointments and stolen meetings under the moon.
The men, with the exception of Old Grannis, began to smoke, the smell of their tobacco mingling with the odors of ether, creosote, and stale bedding, which pervaded the “Parlors.” Soon the windows had to be lowered from the top.
Strange, furry, tricksy things dart across the open places, or sit motionless in the conning towers of the creosote.
Rats dislike creosote and corrosive sublimate, and as for human beings----” He shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
Pure, it is known by its blackish colour, fine shredding, absence of stalk, and an undescribable odour, to me resembling that of creosote; the leaf, too, is small, so that when made into cigars it must be covered over with a slip of the yellow Turkish tobacco called Bafra.
Quotes with CREOSOTE (3)
Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene. The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare. On either side of Paul as he cuts are t…
I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one we see-not only the line and color of the land and its shading at different times of the day, but also its plants and animals in season, its weather, its geology… If you walk up, say, a dry arroyo in the Sonoran Desert you will feel a mounding and rolling of sand and silt beneath your foot that is distinctive. You will anticipate the crumbling of the sedimentary earth in the a…
Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew, there were still coyotes. When I have seen them trot away, when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door, and watched them as they watched me over their shoulders, I have been aware for that moment of how much more there is. Of how I ha…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).