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wood-alcohol

wood-alcohol is the alternative form of wood alcohol.

Meaning of wood alcohol

Noun

wood alcohol (countable and uncountable, plural wood alcohols)

  1. The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.
    Synonyms:
    wood spirit

Questions about wood-alcohol

What is wood-alcohol the alternative form of?
Wood-alcohol is the alternative form of wood alcohol.

Words near wood-alcohol in the dictionary

  1. Wood's lamp
  2. Wood's lamps
  3. Wood's light
  4. Wood's lights
  5. Wood's metal
  6. wood-alcohol
  7. wood-bill
  8. wood-block
  9. wood-blockist
  10. wood-blockists
  11. wood-blocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wood-alcohol (page history and authors); wood alcohol (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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