petrochemical

1. 1.

   any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas

   Broaderorganic compound

Other forms of petrochemical

plural

petrochemicals·

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.

Questions about petrochemical

What does petrochemical mean?

petrochemical means "any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas".

How many syllables are in petrochemical?

petrochemical has 5 syllables: pet-ro-chem-i-cal. The stress falls on "chem". In IPA it is /ˌpɛtɹoʊˈkɛmɪkəl/.