8-letter words containing 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.
- box beam — a beam or girder built up from shapes and having a hollow, rectangular cross section.
- box bolt — a rod-shaped bolt of rectangular section for fastening a door or the like, attached to the inside of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- box keel — a keel in the form of a box beam and having internal space for pipes, ballast, etc.
- box kite — a kite with a boxlike frame open at both ends
- box loom — a loom with a number of shuttle boxes on one or both sides of the lay, enabling the weaver to use a variety of colors in the filling direction.
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
- box room — a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- box sill — a sill for a building frame, composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a joist or header at the outer edge of the plate, as well as a soleplate for the studs resting either directly on the joists or on the rough flooring.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- boxberry — the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
- boxboard — a tough paperboard made from wood and wastepaper pulp: used for making boxes, etc
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- boxology — (graphics) /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
- boxthorn — matrimony vine
- 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.
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- 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.
- 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
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