coal-tar creosote

1. 1.

   a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood

   Synonymscreosote

   Broaderorganic compound

Questions about coal-tar creosote

What does coal-tar creosote mean?

coal-tar creosote means "a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood".

What is another word for coal-tar creosote?

Close synonyms include creosote. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coal-tar creosote a common word?

coal-tar creosote is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.