creosote

Meaning of creosote

noun
  1. A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
  2. A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
  3. The creosote bush.
verb
  1. To apply creosote.
    As the fence is exposed he will creosote it for protection.

Information about creosote

Hyphenation of creosote

cre-osote

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • creosote is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with creosote

apasote, basote, creasote, kreasote, thiasote, pisote, kreosote, myosote

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