9-letter words containing b, o, x
- idiot box — a television set; television.
- jewel box — jewel case.
- jukeboxes — Plural form of jukebox.
- kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- letterbox — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- light box — a boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination.
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- miter box — any of various fixed or adjustable guides for a saw in making miters or cross cuts, especially a troughlike box open at the ends and guiding the saw by slots in the opposite sides.
- mitre box — an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
- money box — a cashbox.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- myxamoeba — an amoeba-like cell produced by a spore
- netbollix — ["bollix": to bungle] IBM's NetBIOS, an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
- obidoxime — An oxime used to treat nerve gas poisoning.
- obnoxious — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- pepperbox — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- phone box — A phone box is a small shelter in the street in which there is a public telephone.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
- press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- shadowbox — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- slide box — a box for keeping slides in
- snuff-box — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- strongbox — a strongly made, lockable box or chest for safeguarding valuable possessions, as money, jewels, or documents.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
- the bronx — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- thibodaux — a city in SE Louisiana.
- tinderbox — a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- tobin tax — a proposed tax on foreign-exchange transactions intended to discourage destabilizing speculation while also raising large revenues that could be channelled to the developing world
- voice box — the larynx.
- windowbox — Alternative form of window box.
- xenoblast — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenophobe — a person who fears or hates foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- xylorimba — A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.