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oil well

oil well noun: a hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped.

Noun

oil well (plural oil wells)

  1. A hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped.

oil well meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Tagalog

oil well in Tamil

hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped
எண்ணெய்க்கிணறு eṇṇeykkiṇaṟu

oil well in Marathi

hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped
तेल विहीर tel vihīr, तेलाची विहीर telācī vihīr

oil well in Urdu

تیل کا کنواں

oil well in Tagalog

hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped
balon ng langis
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oil well in Arabic
بِئْر نَفْط biʔr nafṭ
oil well in Thai
บ่อน้ำมัน bɔ̀ɔ-náam-man
oil well in Vietnamese
giếng dầu

Forms of oil well

pluraloil wells

Questions about oil well

What does oil well mean?
Oil well means a hole drilled into the earth from which petroleum is pumped.
What is oil well in Tamil?
Oil well in Tamil is எண்ணெய்க்கிணறு (eṇṇeykkiṇaṟu). See Oil well meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oil well?
Oil well is a noun.
What is the plural of oil well?
The plural of oil well is oil wells.

Words near oil well in the dictionary

  1. oil tests
  2. oil trash
  3. oil tycoon
  4. oil tycoons
  5. oil up
  6. oil well
  7. oil wells
  8. oil-based
  9. oil-burning
  10. oil-canning
  11. oil-digger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oil well (page history and authors); oil well (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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