8-letter words that end in box
- axle-box — the journal box of a rotating axle
- bank box — safe-deposit box.
- base box — a unit used in the sale of tin plate, equal to the total area of 112 sheets each measuring 14 by 20 inches (35 by 50 cm), or 31,360 square inches (196,000 sq. cm).
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- boom box — A boom box is a large portable machine for playing music, especially one that is played loudly in public by young people.
- brainbox — the skull
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- chip box — chad box
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- coin box — the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
- deed box — a lockable metal box for storing documents
- drop box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop-box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- econobox — a small vehicle that is basic and fuel-efficient and has no unnecessary extras
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- moneybox — piggy bank: container for coins
- nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- 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.
- 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.
- sweatbox — a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
- text box — computing: space for typing text
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