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say it: LOO-bruh-kuhnt
lubricant is a noun meaning "a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery". It is pronounced /ˈlubɹəkənt/ — LOO-bruh-kuhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lubricant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.