8-letter words starting with ir
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- irangate — a political scandal of 1986 in the United States involving the illegal sale of arms to Iran in return for the release of US hostages held there, and the use of the profits to funds Contra rebels in Nicaragua
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- irenicon — A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church.
- iridious — (chemistry) containing trivalent iridium.
- iridized — to cover with iridium.
- iris-out — the gradual disappearance of an image or scene through a contracting circle.
- iriscope — an instrument that displays the prismatic colours, consisting of a polished black glass which is breathed upon via a tube
- irishism — a custom, manner, practice, idiom, etc., characteristic of the Irish.
- irishize — to make Irish, as in character or custom; give an Irish character to.
- irishman — a man born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- 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.
- irrelate — (archaic) unrelated; not connected.
- irrigant — (surgery) irrigating agent.
- irrigate — to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
- irrision — (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- irrisory — Expressing irrision; mocking.
- irritant — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- irrorate — marked with small spots of color; speckled.
- irrumate — To practice irrumation; to insert the penis violently into another's mouth.
- irrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of irrupt.
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