14-letter words containing son
- nelson mandela — Nelson (Rolihlahla) [raw-lee-lah-luh] /ˌrɔ liˈlɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1918–2013, South African black antiapartheid activist: president of South Africa 1994–99.
- neutron poison — a nonfissionable material used to absorb neutrons and thus to control nuclear reactions
- north thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- nurserypersons — Plural form of nurseryperson.
- oligopsonistic — Being or pertaining to oligopsony.
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- personal space — the variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- poison dogwood — poison sumac.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- port nicholson — the first British settlement in New Zealand, established on Wellington Harbour in 1840: grew into Wellington
- preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prison visitor — a person who volunteers to pay regular visits to prison inmates
- quarter nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from a kneeling position beside an opponent, puts one hand on the opponent's head, passes the free arm under the far arm of the opponent, and locks the free arm to the other arm by clasping the wrist.
- quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- reasonableness — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- self-poisoning — illness due to the taking of poison
- simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
- simpson's rule — a method for approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating, with parabolic arcs, the area under the curve defined by the integrand.
- singing lesson — taught class in how to sing
- son et lumiere — sound-and-light show.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sonderkommando — a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
- song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
- south thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- stop consonant — a consonant sound that is made while stopping the airway
- teach a lesson — give a class, give instruction
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- triconsonantal — having three consonants
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- tripersonalist — someone who believes in the Trinity
- tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- wilson's snipe — a North American common snipe, Gallinago (Capella) gallinago delicata.
- woodrow wilson — Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.