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1. API in A, n. View full entry 1922
...American Petroleum Institute (used esp. with reference to a scale, developed by the Institute, for expressing the relative density of oil)....
2. acidization, n. View full entry 1893
...The process or action of acidizing something, esp. a well or a rock formation; an instance of this....
3. alkitran, n. View full entry c1400
...Any of various resins, oils, and pitch-like substances with a practical use (see also some of the 18th- and 19th-cent. quots.); spec.mineral pitch, native asphalt;the resin from trees such...
4. alkylation, n. View full entry 1885
...The process of introducing one or more alkyl groups into a compound; an instance of this; spec. the treatment of a petroleum fraction to produce branched-chain hydrocarbons, esp. isooctane....
5. allowable, adj. and n. View full entry 1932
...Oil Industry. In the United States and Canada: a maximum quantity of oil which under official controls can be produced at a given place in a given period....
6. amber, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1551
...oil of amber: obtained by its dry distillation. spirit of amber: old name of succinic acid....
7. animal oil in animal, n. View full entry 1650
...a supposed fluid substance essential for life; cf. oil2 (obs.rare);any oil obtained from an animal's body....
8. † aquae-ˈoleous, adj. View full entry 1675
...Containing or consisting of both water and oil (as new milk)....
9. asboline, n. View full entry 1863
...An acrid volatile oil obtained from soot....
10. BOE in B, n. View full entry 1979
...barrels of oil equivalent (in the volumetric measurement of oil, one barrel is 35 gallons, or approx. 158.98 litres)....
11. baby oil in baby, n. and adj. View full entry 1930
...a preparation of scented mineral oil, used esp. to moisturize the delicate skin of babies....
12. beak, n.1 View full entry
...in Gas-fitting, a gas-burner with a circular hole 128 of an inch in diameter....
13. becuiba, n. View full entry 1842
...A Brazilian timber tree, Virola bicuhyba; used attrib. in becuiba nutbecuiba tallowor becuiba fat...
14. beech-oil in beech, n. View full entry 1716
...oil extracted from beech-mast....
15. ben, n.3 View full entry 1594
...oil obtained from the ben-nut....
16. benic, adj. View full entry 1863
...Obtained from oil of ben....
17. bergamot, n.1 View full entry 1766
...The essence extracted from the fruit....
18. big inch, adj. and n. View full entry 1942
...Of an oil or natural gas pipeline: having a large diameter....
19. big inch, adj. and n. View full entry 1943
...With the and capital initials. A large-diameter oil pipeline running from the Texas oilfields to the industrial north-east of the United States, laid during the Second World War (1939...
20. big inch, adj. and n. View full entry 1947
...gen. A large-diameter pipeline for oil or natural gas....
