lauryl alcohol

1. 1.

   a colorless insoluble solid alcohol used to make detergents and pharmaceuticals

   Synonyms1-dodecanol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about lauryl alcohol

What does lauryl alcohol mean?

lauryl alcohol means "a colorless insoluble solid alcohol used to make detergents and pharmaceuticals".

What is another word for lauryl alcohol?

Close synonyms include 1-dodecanol. 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 lauryl alcohol a common word?

lauryl alcohol 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.