Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun naphtha

1 sense of naphtha

Sense 1
naphtha -- (any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents)
       => hydrocarbon -- (an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen)
       => solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent -- (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution")