paraffin vs lamp oil

paraffin and lamp oil both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paraffin	Yes	No	No	No
lamp oil	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lamp oil is a hypernym of paraffin; that is, lamp oil is a word with a broader meaning than paraffin:

Other hypernyms of paraffin include coal oil, kerosene, kerosine.

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