Definitions for phenol

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phenol phe·nol

Spelling: [fee-nawl, -nol]

IPA: /ˈfi nɔl, -nɒl/

Phenol is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in phenol (ehlnop).

Definitions for phenol

noun

1. Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
2. any analogous hydroxyl derivative of benzene.

Origin of phenol

First recorded in 1850-55; phen- + -ol¹

Examples for phenol

It is difficult to see how phenol could possibly have such action.

Iocamfen is a liquid composed of iodine, camphor and phenol.

phenol is obtained from coal-tar, or made synthetically from benzene.

In ordinary language it may be called a solution of water in phenol.

That's what my inventor smelled; there never was any phenol in the test tube.

Salicylic acid possesses the characters both of an acid and a phenol.

Cantharadin, phenol, atropin, and strychnin may be mentioned as illustrations.

Among these aromatic substances are indol, phenol, and skatol.

It will be understood in future that a phenol is a hydroxy-derivative of a benzenoid hydrocarbon.

phenol, better known as carbolic acid, finds a use as a developer.