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kamet
  • n  a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
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katsina
  • n  a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
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irridentism
  • n  the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
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ironmongery
  • n  the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop
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irons
  • n  metal shackles; for hands or legs
  • n  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
  • n  a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head
  • n  implement used to brand live stock
  • n  home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth
  • v  press and smooth with a heated iron
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ironsides
  • n  English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
  • n  a man of great strength or bravery
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ironware
  • n  instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal
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ironweed
  • n  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
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ironwood
  • n  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
  • n  exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
  • n  a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
  • n  medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
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