heating oil

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   a petroleum product used for fuel

   Synonymsfuel oil

   Broaderoilfuel

   Narrowergas oil

Questions about heating oil

What does heating oil mean?

heating oil means "a petroleum product used for fuel".

What is another word for heating oil?

Close synonyms include fuel oil. 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 heating oil a common word?

heating oil 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.