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8-letter words containing b, o, x

  • econobox — a small vehicle that is basic and fuel-efficient and has no unnecessary extras
  • exorable — Capable of being moved or persuaded.
  • fox bolt — an anchor bolt secured by a foxtail wedge forced into its end as it is screwed into a blind hole.
  • foxberry — the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
  • fuse box — with circuit breakers
  • gill box — a machine having a number of gills, used in combing.
  • glovebox — The small storage compartment on the passenger's side of an automobile.
  • hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
  • home box — (jargon, computer)   A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2BSD, so there!"
  • homeobox — Any of a class of closely similar sequences that occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
  • horsebox — A vehicle for transporting horses.
  • hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
  • iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
  • in a box — in difficulty or a dilemma
  • iron box — [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and "bait" files designed to keep him interested and logged on. See also back door, firewall machine, Venus flytrap, and Clifford Stoll's account in "The Cuckoo's Egg" of how he made and used one. Compare padded cell.
  • jury box — courtroom: area where jury sits
  • loosebox — Alternative spelling of loose box.
  • lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
  • mixblood — A person of mixed racial heritage.
  • moneybox — piggy bank: container for coins
  • nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
  • oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
  • oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
  • paintbox — container of artist's colours
  • perborax — sodium perborate.
  • play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
  • poor box — a box, especially in a church, into which contributions for the poor can be dropped.
  • pump box — a chamber of a pump in which a piston operates.
  • rice box — (jargon)   (From ham radio slang) Any Asian-made commodity computer, especially an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards.
  • rose box — a perforated metal box used as a strainer; strum.
  • roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
  • saucebox — a saucy person.
  • seed box — a box for storing seeds until they are ready for planting
  • shoe box — cardboard box in which shoes are sold
  • smokebox — a chamber in a steam engine or boiler where smoke is collected
  • snuffbox — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
  • soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
  • soundbox — a chamber in a musical instrument, as the body of a violin, for increasing the sonority of its tone.
  • suboxide — the oxide of an element that contains the smallest proportion of oxygen.
  • subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
  • sweatbox — a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
  • text box — computing: space for typing text
  • textbook — a book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.
  • tick box — A tick box is a small square on a form, questionnaire, or test in which you put a tick to show that you agree with a statement.
  • tool box — container for handheld implements
  • tote box — a box for holding and carrying tools, machine parts, etc.
  • unix box — box
  • wall box — an enclosed iron or steel socket built into a masonry wall to support the end of a wooden beam.
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