Derived from oil.
The crossword clue "Derived from oil." is answered by OLEIC, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1946. 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 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- 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
- ___ acid - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Fatty acid type - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Of an acid - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
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