iron

Noun

iron (countable and uncountable; plural irons)

1. (uncountable) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26, and symbol Fe.
2. (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
3. (in plural irons) Shackles.
4. (slang) a handgun
5. (uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
6. (Cockney rhyming slang; shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof; countable, offensive) A male homosexual.

Synonyms:

• (for pressing clothing): flatiron (old-fashioned), smoothing iron (old-fashioned)
• (shackles): legirons, shackles
• (homosexual): poof, queer

4 letters in word "iron": I N O R.

Anagrams of iron:

• inro

• noir

• nori

• roin

Words found within iron:

in io ion no nor oi on or rin

• irokos ←
• iroko ←
• irksomenesses ←
• iron
• → ironbark
• → ironbarks
• → ironbound