9-letter words that end in box
- apple box — an ornamental Australian tree, Eucalyptus bridgesiana, having heart-shaped juvenile leaves, large lanceolate adult leaves, and conical fruits
- bitty box — (abuse) (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
- black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
- cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
- check box — square for marking with a tick
- coach box — the seat of a coachman on a horse-drawn carriage or coach
- ditty box — a small box used like a ditty bag.
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- glove box — glove compartment.
- gogglebox — a television set.
- grass box — a container attached to a lawn mower that receives grass after it has been cut
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- idiot box — a television set; television.
- jewel box — jewel case.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- tinderbox — a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- voice box — the larynx.
- windowbox — Alternative form of window box.
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