8-Letter Words That Start With: IR

• To use irony

• To treat something in an ironic fashion

• work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc)

• Any of several unrelated eucalypts that have dark, deeply furrowed bark.

• The hard wood of these trees, as used in building and construction.

• 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

• 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

• exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

• a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape

• medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America

• exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron

• a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor

• sheathed in iron plates for protection

• inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable

• without flaws or loopholes

• instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal