Usually means: Energy derived from ancient organic materials.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. fossil fuel: Merriam-Webster
  2. fossil fuel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fossil fuel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fossil fuel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fossil fuel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fossil-Fuel, fossil-fuel: Wordnik
  7. fossil fuel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fossil fuel: Wiktionary
  9. fossil fuel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fossil fuel: Dictionary.com
  11. Fossil-fuel, Fossil fuel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fossil fuel: Rhymezone
  13. fossil fuel: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fossil fuel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fossil fuel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. fossil fuel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fossil fuel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Fossil Fuel: Glossary of Terms on Engines and Emissions
  3. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See fossil-fueled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fossil fuel)

noun:  Any fuel derived from hydrocarbon deposits such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are non-renewable, and their burning moves carbon from underground into the atmosphere via the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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