| 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 |