8-letter words containing iro
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- antirock — opposed to rock music
- antiroll — designed to prevent a vehicle from tilting
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
- bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- castiron — Alternative spelling of cast iron.
- cruzeiro — a former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the cruzeiro real
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- dog iron — an andiron.
- environs — The surrounding area or district.
- flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gridiron — a football field.
- handiron — andiron.
- hirohito — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- in irons — wearing shackles
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- iron box — [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and "bait" files designed to keep him interested and logged on. See also back door, firewall machine, Venus flytrap, and Clifford Stoll's account in "The Cuckoo's Egg" of how he made and used one. Compare padded cell.
- iron man — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- iron ore — rock mined for iron
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- iron pan — a hard layer of precipitated iron salts often found below the surface of sands and gravels
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- ironized — Simple past tense and past participle of ironize.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- ironness — Quality of being iron.
- ironside — ("Ironside") a.d. c980–1016, English king 1016: defeated by Canute.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- ironwork — work in iron.
- iroquois — a member of a North American Indian confederacy, the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and later the Tuscaroras.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- miromiro — a small white-breasted New Zealand tit, Petroica macrocephala
- pig iron — iron tapped from a blast furnace and cast into pigs in preparation for conversion into steel, cast iron, or wrought iron.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- scirocco — sirocco.
- sironize — to treat (a woollen fabric) chemically to prevent it wrinkling after being washed
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- tirolean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Tyrol or its inhabitants.
- unironed — (of clothing, etc) that has not been ironed
- unironic — not ironic
- virogene — a type of virus-forming gene
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