Usually means: Chemical used for wood preservation.
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  1. creosote: Merriam-Webster
  2. creosote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. creosote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. creosote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. creosote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Creosote, creosote: Wordnik
  7. creosote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. creosote: Wiktionary
  9. creosote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. creosote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. creosote: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. creosote: Dictionary.com
  13. creosote: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Creosote (disambiguation), Creosote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Creosote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. creosote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. creosote: Rhymezone
  18. Creosote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. creosote: FreeDictionary.org
  20. creosote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. creosote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. creosote: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. creosote: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. creosote: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. creosote: Medical dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
noun:  A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
noun:  (countable) The creosote bush.
noun:  A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.
verb:  (transitive) To apply creosote.

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