| andiron | (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: dog-iron, dog, firedog |
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| autogiro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogyro, gyroplane |
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| babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| chirography | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, penmanship |
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| chirology | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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| chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| chiropody | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: podiatry |
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| chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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| chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| environmentally | (adverb) for the environment | - |
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| environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
| flatiron | (noun) an iron that was heated by placing it on a stove | - |
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| giro | (noun) a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so | - |
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| (noun) a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office | Synonyms: giro cheque |
| gridiron | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: grid |
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| (noun) the playing field on which football is played | Synonyms: football field |
| iron | (adjective) extremely robust | Synonyms: cast-iron |
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| (noun) home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth | Synonyms: smoothing iron |
| (noun) a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head | - |
| (noun) implement used to brand live stock | Synonyms: branding iron |
| (noun) a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood | Synonyms: atomic number 26, Fe |
| (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron out, press |
| ironclad | (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: brassbound |
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| (adjective) sheathed in iron plates for protection | - |
| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| (noun) a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor | - |
| ironed | (adjective) (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron | - |
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| ironic | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironical, wry |
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| (adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironical |
| ironical | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironic, wry |
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| (adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironic |
| ironically | (adverb) in an ironic manner | - |
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| (adverb) contrary to plan or expectation | - |
| ironing | (noun) the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles | - |
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| (noun) garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed | - |
| ironist | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ridiculer, satirist |
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| ironlike | (adjective) exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron | - |
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| ironman | (noun) a strong man of exceptional physical endurance | Synonyms: iron man |
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| ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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| (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
| ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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| irons | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: chains |
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| ironshod | (adjective) shod or cased with iron | - |
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| ironside | (noun) a man of great strength or bravery | - |
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| ironware | (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: hardware |
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| ironweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: vernonia |
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| ironwood | (noun) a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape | Synonyms: iron-tree, iron tree, ironwood tree |
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| (noun) medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America | Synonyms: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana |
| (noun) handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties | Synonyms: ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut |
| (noun) exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees | - |
| ironwork | (noun) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc) | - |
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| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| ironworks | (noun) the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made | - |
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| irony | (noun) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | - |
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| (noun) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs | - |
| (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire |
| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| midiron | (noun) long iron with a nearly vertical face | Synonyms: two iron |
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| milliroentgen | (noun) a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation, one thousandth of a roentgen. | - |
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| miro | (noun) New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus ferruginea, Prumnopitys ferruginea |
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| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| pirogi | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: piroshki, pirozhki |
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| pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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| piroplasm | (noun) minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals | - |
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| piroshki | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: pirogi, pirozhki |
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| pirouette | (noun) (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
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| (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
| piroxicam | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Feldene) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Feldene |
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| pirozhki | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: pirogi, piroshki |
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| sirocco | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sandstorm |
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| spirochaete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochete |
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| spirochete | (noun) parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals | Synonyms: spirochaete |
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| spirogram | (noun) a recording of breathing made with a spirograph | - |
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| spirograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements | - |
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| spirogyra | (noun) freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands | - |
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| spirometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs | - |
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| spirometry | (noun) the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity | - |
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| spironolactone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade name Aldactone) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Aldactone |
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| tiro | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice, tyro |
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| tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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| undesirous | (adjective) having or feeling no desire | Synonyms: undesiring |
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| unironed | (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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| viroid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: virusoid |
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| virological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of virology | - |
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| virologist | (noun) a specialist in virology | - |
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| virology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases | - |
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