ADJ
- heavy
- light
- crude
- refined
- offshore
- engine, fuel, heating, lubricating, motor
- linseed, paraffin
- Use a rag soaked in linseed oil
QUANT
- barrel
- film
- a rod coated with a film of oil
- drop
VERB + OIL
- extract, obtain, produce
- drill for
- The company is drilling for oil in the North Sea
- discover, find, hit, strike
- pump
- export, import
- burn, use
- change (in a car, etc.)
- soak sth in
- smell of
- The place smelled of paint and oil
OIL + NOUN
- company, producer
- industry, production
- drilling, exploration
- field, rig, well
- drum
- tanker
- refinery
- prices, revenue
- slick, spill, spillage
- a seven-mile-long oil slick off the Scottish coast
ADJ
- cooking
- polyunsaturated
- rancid
- coconut, cod liver, fish, groundnut, olive, sesame, sunflower, vegetable
- a bottle of extra virgin olive oil
- salad
VERB + OIL
- heat
- boil sb/sth in, cook sth in, fry sth in
- drizzle, pour
- Toast the bread, rub with garlic and drizzle over a little olive oil
PREP
- in ~
- Fry the potato in a little sunflower oil
ADJ
- aromatic, fragrant, scented
- essential
- extracting essential oils from flowers
- body, hair
- baby, bath
- aromatherapy, massage
- castor, evening primrose, lavender, etc.
VERB + OIL
- massage/rub into, massage/rub sth with
- She rubbed a scented oil into her hair
- anoint sb/sth with
- The sick were anointed with oil
- extract