Crossword-Solution: PARAFFIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paraffin | n. | Alt. of Paraffine |
We have 30 clues for the answer “PARAFFIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Odorless wax used in candles and sealing | 1 answer |
| Waxy stuff | 1 answer |
| Waterproofing material for paper | 1 answer |
| The wax in wax paper | 1 answer |
| Preservative coating material. | 1 answer |
| OIL shale product | 1 answer |
| MINERAL wax | 1 answer |
| LAMP kerosene | 1 answer |
| Flammable wax | 1 answer |
| Coating of cheese | 1 answer |
| Candle sealer | 1 answer |
| ozocerite | 2 answers |
| liquid mixture distilled from petroleum and used as a fuel or solvent | 2 answers |
| Petroleum derivative | 4 answers |
| Candle material | 5 answers |
| OINTMENT, type of | 6 answers |
| A HEAVY PAPER IMPREGNATED WITH TAR AND USED AS PART OF A ROOF FOR WATERPROOFING | 10 answers |
| Petroleum product | 11 answers |
| Waterproof coat | 12 answers |
| APERIENT | 13 answers |
| COAL tar product | 13 answers |
| CANDLE-making material | 15 answers |
| Purifier | 15 answers |
| physic | 16 answers |
| Emulsion | 18 answers |
| LAXATIVE, type of | 18 answers |
| Cleanser. | 23 answers |
| ORGANIC compounds, substance of | 37 answers |
| Wax | 40 answers |
| Oil | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARAFFIN (5)
See Butter.] (Chem.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C?H?, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
One would have thought hundreds of paraffin-lamps had been flaring and smoking in that hole for days.
After a good wash, which I needed, and an honest attempt to make my clothes presentable, I descended to the meal in a coffee-room lit by a single dim paraffin lamp.
Founded solidly on a firm ground with plenty of space, starred by many lights burning strong and white, with a suggestion of paraffin and lamp- glasses, stood the house and the godowns of Abdulla bin Selim, the great trader of Sambir.
Also it is distilled in Scotland from oil shale, from which paraffin oil and wax and similar substances are produced.
Quotes with PARAFFIN (2)
Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined b…
Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1967–2021).