paraffin

1. A waxy white or colorless solid hydrocarbon mixture used to make candles, wax paper, lubricants, and sealing materials. Also called paraffin wax.

2. Chemistry A member of the alkane series.

3. Chiefly British Kerosene.

4. A waxy crystalline flammable substance obtained especially from distillates of wood, coal, petroleum, or shale oil that is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and is used chiefly in coating and sealing, in candles, in rubber compounding, and in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

5. Any of various mixtures of similar hydrocarbons including mixtures that are semisolid or oily.

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1. To saturate, impregnate, or coat with paraffin.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
paraffin	16	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ai	2
an	2
ar	2
if	5
pi	4
pa	4
aa	2
in	2
na	2
fa	5

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
rif	6
ria	3
rap	5
ran	3
iff	9
rai	3
nap	5
nip	5
pan	5
par	5
pia	5
pin	5
rip	5
fir	6
fin	6
far	6
fan	6
aff	9
ain	3
air	3
ana	3
ani	3
rin	3
arf	6

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
riff	10
pain	6
pair	6
para	6
pian	6
pina	6
pirn	6
rani	4
rain	4
raia	4
raff	10
naif	7
fain	7
nipa	6
niff	10
napa	6
naff	10
fair	7
paan	6
afar	7
airn	4
fiar	7
aria	4
frap	9
firn	7

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
apian	7
infra	8
prana	7
naira	5

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
raffia	12
affair	12
farina	9
pirana	8
parian	8

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
paraffin	16