| bandbox | (noun) a light cylindrical box for holding light articles of attire (especially hats) | - |
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| box | (noun) a blow with the hand (usually on the ear) | - |
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| (noun) a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid | - |
| (noun) separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people | - |
| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: loge |
| (noun) the driver's seat on a coach | Synonyms: box seat |
| (noun) any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned | - |
| (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: boxwood |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: boxful |
| (noun) a rectangular drawing | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: corner |
| breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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| camelpox | (noun) a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox | - |
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| cashbox | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: money box, till |
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| chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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| (noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| cowpox | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: vaccinia |
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| cox | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: coxswain |
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| deedbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: strongbox |
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| detox | (noun) the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified | - |
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| equinox | (noun) (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic | Synonyms: equinoctial point |
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| (noun) either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length | - |
| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| fox | (noun) alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs | - |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, slyboots |
| (noun) the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox | - |
| gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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| hatbox | (noun) a round piece of luggage for carrying hats | - |
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| homeobox | (noun) one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development | Synonyms: homeobox gene |
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| horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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| hotbox | (noun) a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated | - |
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| icebox | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: refrigerator |
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| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| lockbox | (noun) a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | Synonyms: deposit box, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box |
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| lox | (noun) brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked | - |
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| lummox | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| mailbox | (noun) a private box for delivery of mail | Synonyms: letter box |
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| (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, postbox |
| matchbox | (noun) a box for holding matches | - |
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| ox | (noun) any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos | Synonyms: wild ox |
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| (noun) an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus | - |
| paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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| paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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| phlox | (noun) any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers | - |
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| pillbox | (noun) a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete) | - |
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| (noun) a small case for holding pills | - |
| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: toque, turban |
| playbox | (noun) a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) | Synonyms: play-box |
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| postbox | (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, mailbox |
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| pox | (noun) a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks | - |
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| (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, syph, syphilis |
| pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| redox | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, oxidoreduction |
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| rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| sandbox | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandpile, sandpit |
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| (noun) mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal | - |
| shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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| (noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
| skybox | (noun) an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium | - |
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| smallpox | (noun) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars | Synonyms: variola, variola major |
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| snuffbox | (noun) a small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket | - |
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| soapbox | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, stump |
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| (noun) a crate for packing soap | - |
| soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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| strongbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: deedbox |
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| sweatbox | (noun) a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat | - |
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| (noun) small or narrow cell | - |
| tinderbox | (noun) a box for holding tinder | - |
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| (noun) a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence | - |
| toolbox | (noun) a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools | Synonyms: tool cabinet, tool case, tool chest |
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| vox | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice |
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| workbox | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbasket |
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| xerox | (noun) a copy made by a xerographic copier | Synonyms: xerox copy |
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