___ acid
The crossword clue "___ acid" is answered by OLEIC, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OLEIC
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OLEIC answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for OLEIC
Every other clue in this collection answered by OLEIC, most used first.
- Kind of acid - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Derived from oil. - used 16 times, most recently in 2000
- Fatty acid - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
- ___ acid (soap ingredient) - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Acid used in soap - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Fatty acid type - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Of an acid - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- ___ acid - AMINO, used 177 times
- Acid type - AMINO, used 134 times
- Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
- Type of acid - AMINO, used 60 times
- Acid in proteins - AMINO, used 44 times
- Protein-building acid - AMINO, used 32 times
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