Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pentadecane

Pentadecane (pen`tȧ*dek"ān) , noun

[Penta- + Greek de`ka ten.]

(Chemistry) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.