say it: OYL-man
oilman is a noun meaning "a person who owns or operates oil wells". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person who owns or operates oil wells
a worker who produces or sells petroleum
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 oilman 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.