Associations to the word «Naphtha»

Wiktionary

NAPHTHA, noun. (dated) Naturally-occurring liquid petroleum.
NAPHTHA, noun. Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.

Dictionary definition

NAPHTHA, noun. Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne