For 10 points, what eight-letter word distinguishes them from water, ammonia and alcohols?
Carbon tetrachloride can be used to dissolve grease stains in cloth.  This is because carbon tetrachloride, like most waxes, lipids, cooking oils and gasoline, is a linear, planar, or symmetrical compound with more than two atoms.  Such compounds are not miscible with water, nor do they exhibit hydrogen bonding.  For 10 points, what eight-letter word distinguishes them from water, ammonia and alcohols?
Carbon tetrachloride can be used to dissolve grease stains in cloth.  
nonpolar  (do not accept "polar")