Turpentine is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TURPENTINE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat or smear with turpentine, a viscous resin, orig that of the terebinth tree, now generally of conifers
• apply turpentine to
• to treat or smear with turpentine
NOUN:
• a volatile pungent oil distilled from gum turpentine or pine wood, used in mixing paints and varnishes and in liniment.
• an oleoresin secreted by certain trees, especially pines, and distilled to make rosin and oil of turpentine.
• any of a number of trees which yield turpentine or a similar resin.
• A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.
• obtained from conifers (especially pines)
• volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
• a viscous resin, orig that of the terebinth tree, now generally of conifers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a yellow to brown semifluid oleoresin obtained as an exudate from the terebinth; an oleoresin obtained from various conifers (as some pines and firs)
• a viscous resin, orig. that of the terebinth tree, now generally of conifers

Words related to TURPENTINE

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Words that contain TURPENTINE

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How to use TURPENTINE in a sentence

• Stir in gradually, while these two ingredients are quite warm, the oil of turpentine.
• Bathing the part bitten with warm turpentine or warm vinegar is also of great use.
• The hot summer came again, and made the turpentine drop from the thin roof over my head.
• It should not consist solely of grease, but should have mixed with it either wax, turpentine, or tar.
• In treating this subject it is necessary to limit it within comparatively narrow bounds, for bodies of the turpentine class are exceedingly numerous and not well understood.
• Terpin C10 H18 2HO is formed when 1 volume of spirits of turpentine is mixed with 6 of nitric acid and 1 of alcohol, and exposed to air for some weeks.
• By passing air into spirits of turpentine oxygen is absorbed.
• Spirit of turpentine applied with a soft brush is considered to be a good remedy for Scale.
• Turpentine and gunpowder were formerly in vogue, especially among the younger members of the community, to whom a spice of danger is always an attractive element in the fun.
• Her mast-head light was visible, also the torch, which soaked in turpentine, burnt brightly at intervals.
• It yields good turpentine, but trees that have been tapped to procure this are of no use afterwards for building purposes.
• Perhaps it is the smell of turpentine that goes to his head.
• There were so many turpentine camps, or places where contract labor was used to get out valuable wood, or other products, that a complete inquiry would take a long time.
• This solution is afterward diluted with turpentine so it will work well.
• The first thing for you to do, however, is to get some turpentine and remove that paint.
• And here the forests rose scorched and black in spots, because the peasants, bound to pay their lords turpentine, fired pines and caught the heated ooze.
• Sometimes a lamp is used filled with a solution of spirits of turpentine in strong alcohol.

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