kerosene vs paraffin

kerosene and paraffin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
kerosene	Yes	No	No	No
paraffin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, paraffin is a hyponym of kerosene; that is, paraffin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kerosene:

Other hyponyms of kerosene include paraffin oil.

kerosene (noun)	paraffin (noun)
a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters	from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
	(British usage) kerosine
	a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)