| 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 |
| (verb) hit with the fist | - |
| (verb) engage in a boxing match | - |
| (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: package |
| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boxcar | (noun) a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides | - |
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| boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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| boxed | (adjective) enclosed in or set off by a border or box | - |
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| (adjective) enclosed in or as if in a box | Synonyms: boxed-in, boxed in |
| boxer | (noun) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: pugilist |
| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, packer |
| boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| boxful | (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: box |
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| boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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| (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
| boxlike | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxy |
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| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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| (noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
| boxy | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxlike |
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| breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| (noun) the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids | Synonyms: carboxyl group |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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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 |
| cocarboxylase | (noun) a coenzyme important in respiration in the Krebs cycle | Synonyms: thiamine pyrophosphate |
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| decarboxylase | (noun) any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group | - |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decarboxylation | (noun) the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen) | - |
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| deedbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: strongbox |
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| dicarboxylic | (adjective) containing two carboxyls per molecule | - |
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| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| 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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| isocarboxazid | (noun) a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Marplan |
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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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| 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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| monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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| paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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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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| 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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| reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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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 | - |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shadowboxing | (noun) sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training) | - |
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| 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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| 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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| unbox | (verb) remove from a box | - |
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| (verb) to open a new product on a video stream | - |
| workbox | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbasket |
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