Kerosene

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel;  paraffin.
 * The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.

Synonyms

 * coal oil
 * kero
 * lamp oil

Thesaurus
alcohol, avgas, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coal oil, coke, combustible, crude, crude oil, dope, electricity, ethane, ethanol, ethyl, ethyl gas, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fossil oil, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, high-octane gas, high-test, illuminant, illuminating gas, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, lead-free gas, light source, low-lead gas, luminant, methane, methanol, motor oil, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, petrol, petroleum, premium gas, propane, propellant, regular, rock oil, rocket fuel, turf

Alternative forms

 * kerosine

Etymology
From κηρός:.

Translations

 * Chamicuro:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: kerosine or
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: petrooleum, lambiõli
 * Finnish: (generic),  (high quality)
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, for airplanes:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: žibalas
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Russian: керосин
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: