Crossword-Solution: OIL 3 letters, 1604 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Oil	n.	Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
Oil	v. t.	To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
OIL	anagram	ILO, IOL, LIO, LOI, OLI

We have 1604 clues for the answer “OIL”

Clue	Answers
Crude refinery product	1 answer
Canvas painter’s medium	1 answer
"Beds are Burning" Midnight ___	1 answer
"Black gold" or "Texas tea"	1 answer
"Blue Sky Mine" Midnight ___	1 answer
"Crude" fuel	1 answer
"Data is the new ___" (popular wisdom in economics)	1 answer
"Dynasty" commodity	1 answer
"Essential" substance	1 answer
"Giant" discovery	1 answer
"Lorenzo's ___" (1992 film)	1 answer
"Lorenzo's ___" (1992)	1 answer
"Lorenzo's ___" (film)	1 answer
"No Blood for ___" (modern protest sign)	1 answer
"No Blood for ___" (protest sign)	1 answer
"No blood for ___!"	1 answer
"Starry Night," for one	1 answer
"Syriana" resource	1 answer
"The Starry Night," e.g.	1 answer
"There Will Be Blood" focus	1 answer
"There Will Be Blood" subject	1 answer
"___ for the Lamps of China"	1 answer
"___ of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" (SOPHIE album)	1 answer
'Lorenzo's --' ('92 film)	1 answer
Black gold found underground	1 answer
1927 Upton Sinclair novel	1 answer
2010 Gulf problem	1 answer
3-IN-ONE, e.g.	1 answer
3-in-One product	1 answer
Canvas medium for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”	1 answer
Cooking medium for frying	1 answer
Substance in a painter’s palette	1 answer
Crude export from Saudi Arabia	1 answer
Valdez spill	1 answer
A driver might dip into it	1 answer
A little squirt?	1 answer
A must for a world power.	1 answer
A national issue in Iran.	1 answer
A painting.	1 answer
ABUNDANT RUSSIAN RESOURCE THAT ONLY NICE, NON-SANCTIONING NATIONS CAN HAVE	1 answer
AC/DC "Cover You in ___"	1 answer
Abadan export.	1 answer
Aioli ingredient ... or three of the letters in "aioli"	1 answer
Alaska resource	1 answer
Alaska's main export	1 answer
Alaskan export	1 answer
Alaskan find	1 answer
Alaskan resource	1 answer
Alberta Tar Sands product	1 answer
Alberta gold?	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AERA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with OIL (5)

Weltering in the bloody water, Dead lay all the fiery serpents, And among them Hiawatha Harmless sailed, and cried exulting: “Onward, O Cheemaun, my darling! Onward to the black pitch-water!” Then he took the oil of Nahma, And the bows and sides anointed, Smeared them well with oil, that swiftly He might pass the black pitch-water.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The Farmer and the Fox A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

All commercial vessels (as opposed to all nonmilitary ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Often, a {marketroid} will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Archie was seated in his office, his desk chair tilted back, reading by the light of a hot coal-oil lamp.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with OIL (3)

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god havi…

Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.

H.P. Lovecraft Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the land.' 1 Kings 17:14

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,718 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).