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11-letter words containing b, o, x

  • penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
  • pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • set-top box — television signal converter
  • skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
  • squeeze-box — a concertina or accordion.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • to be exact — You say to be exact to indicate that you are slightly correcting or giving more detailed information about what you have been saying.
  • toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
  • unobnoxious — not unpleasant or offensive
  • vox barbara — a questionably unconventional word or term; barbarism: applied especially to neo-Latin terms in botany, zoology, etc., that are formed from elements that are neither Latin nor Greek.
  • witness box — witness stand.
  • witness-box — witness stand.
  • xenobiology — The speculative biology of extraterrestrial life forms.
  • xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
  • xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
  • xenophobian — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
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