| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| anchorperson | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorman |
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| antimeson | (noun) the antiparticle of a meson | - |
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| arson | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: fire-raising, incendiarism |
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| benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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| bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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| (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
| damson | (noun) dark purple plum of the damson tree | Synonyms: damson plum |
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| diapason | (noun) either of the two main stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: diapason stop |
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| dobson | (noun) large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait | Synonyms: Corydalus cornutus, dobson fly, dobsonfly |
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| (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: hellgrammiate |
| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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| foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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| freedperson | (noun) a person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| frisson | (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
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| garrison | (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: fort |
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| (noun) the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place | - |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
| godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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| grandson | (noun) a male grandchild | - |
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| grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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| hyson | (noun) a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves | - |
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| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| keelson | (noun) a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| layperson | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, secular |
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| lesson | (noun) a task assigned for individual study | - |
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| (noun) a unit of instruction | - |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, example, object lesson |
| (noun) the significance of a story or event | Synonyms: moral |
| liaison | (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, link |
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| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement |
| mason | (noun) a craftsman who works with stone or brick | Synonyms: stonemason |
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| meson | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: mesotron |
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| nelson | (noun) any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck | - |
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| newsperson | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: reporter |
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| nonperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: unperson |
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| orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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| outdoorsperson | (noun) a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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| parson | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, pastor, rector |
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| person | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul |
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| (noun) a human body (usually including the clothing) | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party | - |
| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| (verb) administer poison to | - |
| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| preseason | (noun) a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| reason | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: intellect, understanding |
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| (noun) a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion | - |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, grounds |
| (noun) an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, occasion |
| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: rationality, reasonableness |
| (verb) think logically | - |
| (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: conclude, reason out |
| (verb) present reasons and arguments | Synonyms: argue |
| salesperson | (noun) a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | Synonyms: sales rep, sales representative |
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| season | (noun) one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions | Synonyms: time of year |
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| (noun) a recurrent time marked by major holidays | - |
| (noun) a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field | - |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, mollify, temper |
| (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, flavour |
| son | (noun) a male human offspring | Synonyms: boy |
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| spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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| stepson | (noun) the son of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stonemason | (noun) a craftsman who works with stone or brick | Synonyms: mason |
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| transposon | (noun) a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) | Synonyms: jumping gene |
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| treason | (noun) a crime that undermines the offender's government | Synonyms: high treason, lese majesty |
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| (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treachery |
| (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, traitorousness |
| unison | (noun) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | - |
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| (noun) occurring together or simultaneously | - |
| (noun) corresponding exactly | - |
| unperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: nonperson |
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| unreason | (noun) the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding | Synonyms: irrationality |
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| venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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| whoreson | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child |
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| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch |
| yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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