hydrocracking
noun, verb
hydrocracking is a noun meaning “The production of high-octane petroleum fuel and kerosene by hydrogenating large or complex hydrocarbons and then cracking them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-R-A-C-K-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrocracking is hydrocrackings.
What does hydrocracking mean?
noun
- 1
The production of high-octane petroleum fuel and kerosene by hydrogenating large or complex hydrocarbons and then cracking them.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of hydrocrack
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydrocracking
- hydrocrackings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrocracking?
Hydrocracking appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hydrocracking come from?
From hydro- + cracking.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).