Box

Definition: Box

Box

Noun

1. A (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid; "he rummaged through a box of spare parts".

2. Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance; "the royal box was empty".

3. The quantity contained in a box; "he gave her a box of chocolates".

4. A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner".

5. A rectangular drawing; "the flowchart contained many boxes".

6. Evergreen shrubs or small trees.

7. Any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned; "the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box".

8. The driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver".

9. Separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people; "the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold".

10. : a blow with the hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear".

Verb

1. Put into a box; "box the gift, please".

2. Hit with the fist; "I'll box your ears!".

3. Engage in a boxing match; in sport.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "box" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Box \Box\ (b[o^]ks), noun. [Anglo-Saxon box, Latin buxus, from Greek. See Boxa case.]. (references)

Computing

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Economics

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Personal Care & Hotels

Public Administration

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Weather

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Box

Abode

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Contention

Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel).

Receptacle

Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Crosswords: Box

Czech (box, boxing, pugilism), Dutch (stall), French (box), German (box, cabinet, compartment, horse box, loose box, loudspeaker, parking place, pit, stall, stand, trap), Hungarian (pit), Italian (box, pen, pit, stall), Maya (blue), Romanian (box, boxing, fisticuff, prize fighting, pugilism), Turkish (empty, free, unfit, unoccupied, unsuitable, vacant, void), Yucatec (black).

If I was 80 years younger, I'd box your ears (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Sit down, put your hands on that box! Now, why is that bomb on the train (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser)

I bet ya can box a little, can't ya sir (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

That president is coming home from California in a box. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

And as the cash box rang I (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell)

Even got keys to the spot to drop the PO Box (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Place them in a box until a quieter time (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Get a box or an old brown paper sack (Run; performing artist: George Strait)

If I had a box just for wishes (Time In A Bottle; performing artist: Jim Croce)

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut. (references; author: unknown)

One of life's mysteries is how a two-pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds. (references; author: unknown)

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (references; author: unknown)

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits. (references; author: unknown)

I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. (references; author: unknown)

The Box (1974)

David Nixon's Magic Box (1970)

The Golden Box (1970)

In a Box (1968)

Backwards Box (1967)

Music Box Dancer (performing artist: Frank Mills)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Black Box Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Jack in the Box Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Paper and Paperboard Box Files, Letter Trays, Storage Boxes, and Similar Articles Used in Offices, Shops, and Places of Business: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Harry Potter Schoolbooks Box Set: Two Classic Books from the Library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (reference)

• The Time Quartet Box Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Box Elder News & Journal (reference)

• Box Hill College Tafe Handbook (reference)

• Box International Trade (reference)

• Box Office (reference)

• Corrugated & Cartonboard Box Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• CKY The Box Set (DVD) (reference)

• Transformers Season Two Box Set, Part 1 (reference)

• Baby Santa's Music Box (reference)

• Grand Prix: Deluxe Letter - Box Edition (reference)

• M*A*S*H TV Season One - 3 Tape Box Set (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Black Box Aesthetic (reference)

• Alabaster Box (reference)

• My Alabaster Box (reference)

• Yo-Yo Ma Box Set [Specially Priced Amazon.com Exclusive] [Three CD's Plus Bonus DVD] [BOX SET] (reference)

• Criterion Music Box (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• PIONEER PHOTO ALBUMS Photo/Video Storage Box (reference)

• QuickCam ZoomWhite Box 5pk (reference)

• Open Box THINKPAD 600X Notebook (reference)

• Sony CD Boom Box - Sapphire #CFD-E75 (reference)

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 Deluxe (Mini Box) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Birth Certificate with Curl & Tooth Boxes in Rosewood Keepsake Box (reference)

• Carter's Baby's Keepsake Box - John Lennon Collection - Yellow (reference)

• Espressione Classic Espresso Coffee Pods, Box of 150 (reference)

• Wüsthof 8-Piece Stainless-Steel Steak Knife Set with Wooden Gift Box (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is the 5 A Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared in Washington D.C.'s Metrorail stations during September 1993. The ad has running figurines in the shapes of a banana, an orange juice box, a tomato, carrot and broccoli. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer).

This slide shows the front and back of a box of Kellogs Bran Flakes. The back panel shows "To Your Health: Preventive Health Tips From The National Cancer Institute". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The ultraviolet pass box cabinet was used in Maximum Containment labs, through which possibly contaminated objects were passed in order to render any pathogens lifeless during transfer between laboratory rooms. Credit: CDC.

"Living in a Box" by Rainer Wonisch. Use the arrow keys to rotate the box to see what's inside.

"Surprise in a Box" by Hassan Sedaghat.

Observing party truck showing mounting of rod box Level party of H. J. Oliver. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

ABLS - Automated Boundary Layer Sampler Ready for deployment off of PEIRCE Yellow instrument on deck is a box corer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Water quality testing equipment and a "live box" for crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Box coring operations off the fantail of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Recovering a box core with a bottom sample for biological studies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Why should not they explore to Box Hill though the Sucklings did not come

His Imperial Fatness was graciously pleased to box my ears

So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down

She had taken from a little box behind her a few old rags, and her little lead sword

Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon

Ma worked quickly about the fire while Rose of Sharon sat on a box resting her heavy abdomen on her knees

The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.

Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In the search box, type "Marfan syndrome" or synonyms. (references)

Enter "Marfan syndrome" (or synonyms) into the search box. (references)

Below the search box, select the option "The last 30 days." (references)

Business

Li notes that the market of set-top box is divided by the history of the two groups. (references)

In order to speed up the development the set-top box market, several impediments must be overcome. (references)

Set-top box access provide yet another piece in the puzzle of bringing the Internet to the Chinese masses. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Botataung Township,(P.O. Box 40) Yangon, Myanmar. (references)

Ethiopia

P.O. Box 1014, Entoto Street, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (references)

Tanzania

Radio Tumaini, P.O. Box 167, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

A swastika was found inside the box. (references)

Political Economy

HONDURAS

A one percent tax applied on the FOB value of all export articles was eliminated in 2000. Export taxes on bananas have been reduced in stages from 50 to 4 cents a box in 2000. Special export taxes on seafood, sugar, and live cattle were eliminated in 2000. Tourism services have been subject to a four percent tax since 1998. (references)

Political Rights

Armenia

There was no criminal investigation of the amply documented ballot box stuffing. (references)

Trade

Netherlands

Such requests should be sent to: Ministry of Finance, Director of Customs, P.O. Box 20201, 2500 EE The Hague. (references)

Panama

All goods arriving in Panama intended to be reexported immediately must be marked "PANAMA IN TRANSIT" on each box or outside container. (references)

Kenya

IPC contacts are: Executive Chairman, Investment Promotion Center, NBK Building - 8th Floor, P.O. Box 55704, Nairobi, Kenya; Tel: 254-2-221-401; Fax: 254-2-336-663. (references)

Travel

Guatemala

Leave valuables in the hotel's safe deposit box. (references)

Guinea

For postal service, most businesses utilize a post office box. (references)

Eq. Guinea

Mail is generally sent to an "apartado postal" (A.P.) or post office box. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "box": box-ad, box-arrow, box-barrage, box-barrow, box-bed, box-beds, box-calf, box-car, box-carrying, box-cars, box-chairs, box-compass, box-containing, box-couch, box-edged, box-file, box-files, box-fish, box-flues, box-folds, box-full, box-girder, box-hats, box-hedge, box-ing, Box-iron, box-jellies, Box-Jenkins, box-just, box-keeper, box-leafed, box-like, box-load, box-maker, box-message, box-number, box-off, box-office, box-office hit, box-offices, box-out, box-pleated, box-ridge, box-room, box-rooms, box-seat, box-set, box-shape, box-shaped, box-shifter, box-shifting, box-spanner, box-sprung, box-stalls, box-stick-and-banana, box-style, box-swap, box-tickers, box-ticking, box-tomb, Box-tree, box-type, box-walking, box-within-a-box, box-wood.

Ending with "box": boy-in-the-box, call-box, cash-box, chocolate-box, commentary-box, cool-box, egg-box, gear-box, hmg-box, horse-box, ice-box, jewel-box, letter-box, light-box, money-box, pencil-box, phone-box, picture-box, pillar-box, pill-box, post-box, Spice-box, telephone-box, tinder-box, tool-box, window-box, witness-box, x-box.

Containing "box": black-box testing, cardboard-box-making, cigar-box cedar, closed-box testing, double-box-of-popcorn, Hammer-the-dispatch-box-major, Sand-box tree, shoe-box-shaped, Tata-box-factor, T-Box Domain Proteins.

Afrikaans

doos, boks (container, jug, vessel), pot (container, jug, pot, vessel). (various references)

Albanian

kuti (canister, case, casket, container, crate, receptacle, sandbank, Square, thriftbox, tray). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لاكم (fight), ‏الصندوق (case), ‏صان بصندوق, ‏صندوق (ark, bin, case, chest, container, crate, fund, hutch, kitty, locker, rack, receiver, till), ‏عبأ (enlist, load, mobilize, put up, top up), ‏علبة (can, pigeonhole), ‏زريبة لفرس, ‏شجرة البقس, ‏وضع في الصندوق, علبة (case), ‏لكزة (poke, punch), ‏لكم (bust, knock, punch, slug, sock, strike, to you, yours), ‏لكمة على الأذن, ‏هدية فى علبة, ‏مقصورة (closet, compartment), ‏كشك (booth, hut, kiosk, shack, stall), ‏ورطة (deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole, hot water, jam, maw, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сепаре, сандък (bin, case, chest, coffer, crib, hutch, packing case), хижа (cabin, hovel, hut, rest house, shanty), чемширово дърво (boxwood), чемшир (boxwood), кутия (cabinet, case, casing, container, housing), ковчег (ark, bier, casket, coffin), кабина (booth, cab, cabin, cage, gondola), капра (coach box), ложа (gunstock), будка (pavilion), боксирам. (various references)

Catalan

caixa (cashier's stand, fund, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Chinese 

簏 (basket), 箱子 (Boxes), 箱 (chest, trunk), 匚 (basket, pigsty, receive with both hands, rest-room), 匣 . (various references)

Czech

krabice (case, cist, pack, packet). (various references)

Danish

kiste (chest), dåse (tin packing, tinning), beholder (barrel, container, jug, vase, vessel). (various references)

Dutch

doosje, doos (container, jug, vessel), boksen (boxing). (various references)

Esperanto

boksi, ujo (container, jug, vessel), skatolo, skatoleto, kesto (chest). (various references)

Faeroese

kassi (chest), dós (chest). (various references)

Farsi 

مشت زدن (Fist, Knuckle), لژ (Loge, Stall), قوطی (Can, Canister, Package), توگوشی , سیلی زدن (Slap, Spat), سیلی (Buffet, Slap, Slog, Spat), صندوق (Bin, Case, Chest, Coffer, Trunk), جعبه (Case, Chest), جای ویژه (Bench, Booth), احاطه کردن (Beset, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Pale, Ring, Skirt, Sphere), اطاقک (Booth, Cubicle), درقاب یاچهارچوب گذاشتن , درجعبه محصورکردن , بوکس بازی کردن , بوکس . (various references)

Finnish

rasia (case). (various references)

French

coffre (boot), caisse (money box), boîte, loge, coffret, carton (board), carter, buis (boxwood), boxer (boxer), box (box stall). (various references)

Frisian

bokse, bak (container, jug, vessel), kiste (chest), doaze (container, jug, vessel). (various references)

German

Schachtel (carton, case, pack, package, packet, tart), Kasten (barn, barrack, bin, cabinet, case, castes, chest, coffer, crate, drawer, goal, heavyweight, hutch, showcase, tub), boxen (boxes, boxing, fight, force, hit, punch, push, spar, thump, to box), kiste (bus, case, chest, contraption, crate, crock, hutch, jalopy, packing case, sack, tub), dose (bowl, can, canister, compact, dish, jar, socket, tin), zelle (airframe, booth, cabin, cell, cubicle), karton (card, cardboard, cardboards, carton, cartoon, packboard, pasteboard), gehäuse (cabinet, cage, case, casing, chassis, core, holder, housing, housings, package, pod, shell, socket), box (cabinet, compartment, horse box, loose box, loudspeaker, parking place, pit, stall, stand, trap), Büchse (caddy, can, collecting box, gun, rifle, tin). (various references)

Greek 

κιβώτιο (case, chest, container, trunk), κουτί (caddy, can, canister), πυγμαχώ (scrap, spar). (various references)

Hawaiian

kuti. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשים בארגז (encase), להתאגרף (punch, spar, wrestle), תיק (bag, case, dossier, file, folder, portfolio, satchel), תבה (case, chest, crate, tidy), תא (cabin, cell, chamber, compartment, cubicle, room), קופסה (case), אשכרוע, ארגז (case, chest, crate), כליבה (vice, workbasket), גלוסקמה (chest, coffin, ossuary, sarcophagus), גובתה (cup, socket, tube). (various references)

Hungarian

doboz (can, canister, case, pack, sterilized drum), páholy, láda (bin, boot, case, chest, crate, hutch). (various references)

Icelandic

skrín. (various references)

Indonesian

bis (bus, pipe, tube), bertinju, peti (case, chest, hutch, kit, quod, trunk), menampar (bash, knock, slap), kotak (basket, kit). (various references)

Irish

bosca, ciste (chest, chest; treasure), cófra (chest), araid (chest). (various references)

Italian

scatola (can, canister, case, chest, tin), cassa (bank, case, cash, cash desk, cash register, chest, container, counter, desk, fund, jug, pay desk, safe, strongbox, till, vessel), vaso (bowl, container, duct, gallipot, jar, jug, pipkin, pot, urn, vase, vessel), tinozza (bath, container, jug, kit, tub, vat, vessel), palco (dais, flooring, platform, stage, stand), fare il pugilato, cassone (caisson, cassone, castes, chest), cassetta (cartridge, cassette, chest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

箱. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ボックス , ますせき, ますめ (measure, square), さじき (gallery, reviewing stand), かこみ (column, enclosure, siege), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), はこ. (various references)

Korean 

상자 (Boxes, case). (various references)

Lombard

scatola, pacch. (various references)

Malay

kotak. (various references)

Manx

doarney (boxing), cur ayns kishtey (crate). (various references)

Norwegian

telefonkiosk (call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone kiosk), kasse (cashier's stand, crate, fund, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Papiamen

pòchi (container, flowerpot, jug, pot, vessel), kaha, doshi, caha (chest). (various references)

Pig Latin

oxbay.(various references)

Polish

słabo (chest, lightly, weakly), pudełko, pojemnik (container, jug, vessel), naczynie (container, jug, vessel). (various references)

Portuguese

caixa (ash-box, bank window, bin, bunker, cash keeper, cashier, cashier's stand, chest, coalscuttle, coffer, desk, fund, hutch, jug, kit, money box, pay-box, receiver, safe, sheath, teller, treasurer, vessel, writing-table), estojo (boxing, case, casket, holder, kit, pyxis, set, sheath, socket), boxear. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

caixa (cashier). (various references)

Romanian

cutie (cabinet, case, casket, cover, drawer, package, pillbox, socket). (various references)

Romansch

stgalta. (various references)

Russian 

сундук (chest, dower-chest), ящик (ark, ash bin, ash-bin, bin, cage, case, chest, packing case, receptacle), удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, cut, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), коробка (bandbox, receptacle, shell), облучок, оплеуха, ложа (loge), букса (axle bearing, axle box, axle-bearing, axle-box, grease-box, journal box, journal-box), боксиро, боксир, бокс (boxcalf, pugilism, ring, spar), подшипник (bearing, pillow, pillow block). (various references)

Scottish

bogsa, bocsa (a box), ciste (chest, coffin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

boksovati (spar), udarati pesnicama, televizor (television set, telly, tv), stražarska kuća, sanduk (chest, crate, hull, hutch, locker, trunk), loža (lodge, loge), kutija (chest, receptacle). (various references)

Spanish

estuche (caddy, case, container, jug, kit, set, sheath, take, vessel), caja (barrel, body, case, cash, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's stand, casing, checkbox, checkout, chest, container, crate, cushion, drawer, fund, housing, jug, money box, money-box, pay office, paydesk, shaft, shell, slush fund, take, till, vessel, well), arca (ark, bin, chest), olla (container, jug, pot, saucepan, vessel), jarro (container, jug, jugful, mug, pitcher, pot, tankard, vessel), cajetín. (various references)

Sranan

kisi (chest, get, have, receive), dosu. (various references)

Swahili

sanduku, chombo (container, jug, vase, vessel). (various references)

Swedish

dosa (caddy, canister), ask (ash, case, pack), spilta (stall), skrin (case, casket, coffer, shrine), lår (bin, case, chest, ham, haunch, thigh), låda (case, chest, drawer, tray), buxbom (boxwood). (various references)

Tagalog

kahón. (various references)

Tahitian

'‘fata. (various references)

Thai

ใส่กล่อง (bin, case), โทรทัศน์, ช่องสี่เหลี่ยม, ช่องคลอด (axe wound, bush, chuff, fadge, fur burger, Jack and Danny, muff), การต่อย, ที่นั่งคนขับรถม้า, ทวารหนัก (anus, ring-piece), กล่อง (bin, magazine), ต้นไม้ชนิดหนึ่ง (birch, thorn apple), ต่อยมวย, ตบ (slap, smack), คอกสำหรับคนดูในโรงละคร. (various references)

Turkish

kutu (bin, can, canned, carton, cartridge, case, cassette, chest, coffer, repository). (various references)

Turkmen 

tahyl (case), guty, gapyrjak, gap (package, vessel). (various references)

Ukrainian

ящик (ark, cabinet, case, chest, coffer), стійло (bay, boose, crib, stall), ставити в стійло, скриня (bin, case, chest, hutch, pocket), коробка (case), козли (coachbox, perch), класти в коробку, вміст коробки, оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, girth, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone), затиснути (catch), будка (booth, cabin, kiosk), бокс (boxing, pugilism), подавати в суд. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tráp, thận trọng (advisedly, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, guarded, politic, prudent, prudential, tender, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake), thùng (bucket, cask, peck, tank), hộp (ark, case), cho quan toà, cái tát (cuff, smack), cái bạt, ông (signor). (various references)

Welsh

bonclustio, bocs, blwch, taro bonclust, pren bocs, paffio (fight), cwffio (fight), cist (bin, chest, coffer). (various references)

Zulu

ibhokisi. (various references)

barag, na. (various references)

pyxis, theke. (various references)

arca, arca archa, arcad, arcae, arcam, arcaque, archad, arcis, argentario, buxus sempervirens, capsa. (various references)

boxer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "box": boxberries, boxberry, boxboard, boxboards, boxcar, boxcars, boxed, boxer, boxers, boxes, boxfish, boxfishes, boxful, boxfuls, boxhaul, boxhauled, boxhauling, boxhauls, boxier, boxiest, boxiness, boxinesses, boxing, boxings, boxlike, boxthorn, boxthorns, boxwood, boxwoods, boxy. (additional references)

Words ending with "box": bandbox, boombox, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, coalbox, econobox, feedbox, firebox, gearbox, hatbox, hellbox, homeobox, hotbox, icebox, jukebox, lockbox, mailbox, matchbox, outbox, pegbox, pepperbox, pillbox, postbox, saltbox, sandbox, saucebox, shadowbox, skybox, snuffbox, soapbox, soundbox, strongbox, sweatbox, teabox, tinderbox, toolbox, unbox, woodbox, workbox. (additional references)

Words containing "box": bandboxes, boomboxes, breadboxes, carboxyl, carboxylase, carboxylases, carboxylate, carboxylated, carboxylates, carboxylating, carboxylation, carboxylations, carboxylic, carboxyls, carboxymethylcellulose, carboxymethylcelluloses, carboxypeptidase, carboxypeptidases, cashboxes, chatterboxes, coalboxes, cocarboxylase, cocarboxylases, decarboxylase, decarboxylases, decarboxylate, decarboxylated, decarboxylates, decarboxylating, decarboxylation, decarboxylations, dicarboxylic, econoboxes, feedboxes, fireboxes, gearboxes, hatboxes, hellboxes, homeoboxes, hotboxes, iceboxes, isocarboxazid, isocarboxazids, jukeboxes, kickboxer, kickboxers, kickboxing, kickboxings, letterboxed, letterboxing, letterboxings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Box" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bax, Bex, bho, Biox, bix, Bixa, blox, bmoc, bmx, boax, boc, bof, boix, Boj, Bolx, bonx, bopx, boq, borx, bou, bov, boxe, boxi, boxo, boxs, boz, brox, btx, bux, bx, eox, gox, iox, obc, oox, Qbo, Xoox, zox. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bo, ox.

+1 letter: boxy.

+2 letters: borax, boxed, boxer, boxes, buxom, oxbow, unbox.

+3 letters: bijoux, bollix, bollox, bombax, bombyx, boxcar, boxers, boxful, boxier, boxing, hatbox, hotbox, icebox, outbox, oxbows, pegbox, skybox, teabox.

+4 letters: bandbox, boombox, boraxes, boxcars, boxfish, boxfuls, boxhaul, boxiest, boxings, boxlike, boxwood, broadax, buxomer, buxomly, cashbox, coalbox, coxcomb, feedbox, firebox, gearbox, hellbox, jukebox, lockbox, mailbox, oxblood, pillbox, postbox, saltbox, sandbox, soapbox, toolbox, unboxed, unboxes, woodbox, workbox.