turpentine

Other forms of turpentine

plural

turpentines·

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 turpentine

What does turpentine mean?

turpentine means "obtained from conifers (especially pines)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turpentine?

turpentine has 3 syllables: tur-pen-tine. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝpənˌtaɪn/.

What is another word for turpentine?

Close synonyms include gum terpentine, oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turps. 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 turpentine a common word?

turpentine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with turpentine?

8 words rhyme with turpentine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.