grease

A good fit for: Cooks who want a chemical-free pan that lasts—and don’t mind putting in a little elbow grease.

Abrams tanks greased the skids for Germany to export Leopard tanks.

This type of borrowing and lending is the grease that keeps precious-metal markets moving.

It blows water off slow-to-dry surfaces—plastic cups, reusable bags, exhaust-fan grease traps—in such a satisfying manner, you might wash them twice for kicks.

The solid mass weighed as much as eight double-decker buses and consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease.