Oil is any of a number of nonpolar, hydrophobic, and viscous liquids.
Oil also often refers to:
- Big Oil, a name used to collectively describe major oil corporations.
- Cooking oil, any liquid fat used in food preparation.
- Lubricant, a substance that reduces friction between surfaces.
- Lubrication, using a lubricant to reduce friction.
- Motor oil, any lubricant used in internal combustion engines.
- Petroleum (crude oil), naturally occurring liquid found beneath the Earth's surface, or a derived product:
- Fuel oil, liquid fuel burned for heat or power.
- Heating oil, liquid fuel.
Arts, entertainment, and media
Art
- Oil paint, paint with pigments suspended in an oil
- Oil painting, the process of using paints based on oils
Music
- Oil (band), a group of Californian heavy metal musicians
- OiL, a band from Pennsylvania now called CKY
- Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, a compilation CD released by Thick Records
- Midnight Oil, also known as "The Oils", an Australian rock band
Television
Series
- Oil, an early title of the U.S. TV series Blood & Oil
- Oil, the original title of 1980s soap opera Dynasty
Episodes
- "Oil" (Dynasty), the debut episode of Dynasty
- "Oil" (The Young Ones), a 1982 episode of The Young Ones
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Oil (film), a 2009 Italian documentary
- Oil!, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927
Organizations
- OIL (incorporations and corporate services), a company
- Office of Infrastructure and Logistics (European Commission) in Luxembourg
- Oil India Ltd
- Oil Insurance Limited, a mutual insurance company
- Oilexco (TSX: OIL, LON: OIL), an oil company
Technology
- Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web
- OSEK Implementation Language, a description language used in OSEK systems
See also
- All pages with titles containing OIL or OILs
- All pages with titles beginning with Oil
- All pages with titles beginning with OIL
- Langues d'oïl (in Romance languages)
- OYL (disambiguation)