12-letter words containing b, i, x
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- mixobarbaric — relating to a people who have both Greek and non-Greek ancestry
- non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
- spinning box — centrifugal box.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- toxicophobia — an intense fear of poisoning
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- x-ray binary — a binary star that is an intense source of X-rays and is composed of a normal star in close orbit with a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole