Naphtha is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NAPHTHA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a vague name for the liquid inflammable distillates from coal-tar, wood, etc., esp. the lighter and more volatile ones
• a flammable oil containing various hydrocarbons, obtained by the dry distillation of organic substances such as coal, shale, or petroleum.
• liquid mixture used as a solvent and in petrol
• The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.
• One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha from petroleum; as, Boghead naphtha, from Boghead coal (obtained at Boghead, Scotland); crude naphtha, or light oil, from coal tar; wood naphtha, from wood, etc.
• any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a volatile liquid

Words related to NAPHTHA

naphthas16 naphthous17

Words that contain NAPHTHA

naphthas16 naphthalic20 naphthalin18 naphthalene19 naphthaline19 naphthalins19 naphthalise19 naphthalize28 naphthalenes20 naphthalines20 naphthalised21 naphthalises20 naphthalized30 naphthalizes29 naphthalising22 naphthalizing31 methylnaphthale31 methylnaphthalene33 methylnaphthalenes34

How to use NAPHTHA in a sentence

• But there are metals, like potassium and sodium, which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha.
• But before pouring on the naphtha and lighting the flame they freed his canary bird.
• The naphtha springs are said to yield over 170,000 tons of oil yearly.
• Square pits, about twenty-five fathoms deep, are dug, and the naphtha is dipped out by means of wooden buckets.
• This naphtha, however, is of the commonest kind, of a dark brown colour, and thicker than oil.
• The fine white naphtha, which can be used for lighting and fuel, is peculiar to the Caspian Sea.
• The barbarians did him serious injury by means of their archery as well as by the naphtha which they poured over his engines.
• And, in truth, one asks what they are doing with coal in this town of naphtha.
• In an instant a sheet of flame burst out all round the steamer The boiling came from a submarine spring of naphtha, and the cigar end had set it alight.
• We learned afterwards it was occasioned by the explosion of a jar of naphtha, which instantly enveloped the whole room in fire, the people barely escaping in time.
• Three railroads in Russia are using naphtha in their locomotives, and steamers on the Volga are using the same fuel.
• In the experiment which we saw, the motor was supplied with a mixture of gas and air, obtained by the evaporation of naphtha.
• The naphtha is of two kinds, black naphtha or petroleum, and white naphtha, which is much preferred to the other.
• At least, no wise farmer would have naphtha, or gasoline, in his outbuildings, for it would make his insurance invalid.
• They sprinkled naphtha in my house and set it afire.
• Forty women and children were charred to a cinder by being placed in a cave, in which a vast quantity of firewood had been heaped up, soaked with naphtha and set alight.
• In the centre of the floor was a cistern and a fountain of that liquid light which I have presumed to be naphtha.
• Rich naphtha springs exist on the Caspian and an immense bed of coal has been discovered between the Donetz and Dnieper rivers.
• The streets were almost deserted, and the glare of gas and naphtha had vanished.
• The body was wrapped, and apparently corded up, in coarse canvas, soaked in naphtha.
• But in this crude naphtha there was, as usual, a quantity of volatile spirit which was being given off even at the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere.
• There were several small boats and a naphtha launch in the boat-house.
• There were naphtha flares in the fog, dingy folk in muddy ways, and houses that kept to one place.
• So he took a bit of potassium metal, bright as silver, out of a bottle of naphtha, put it in the candle wick, touched it with a bit of dripping ice, and so lighted his candle.
• Hale used petroleum naphtha to hasten the drying qualities of the varnish, so that it would set on the article to be varnished before it had a chance to run off.

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