9-Letter Words Starting IR & Ending S

• 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

• 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

• English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

• supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting

• something that causes irritation and annoyance