10-letter words containing ist
- partialist — a person who is partial
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- passionist — a member of the “Congregation of Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” founded in 1720 and engaged chiefly in missionary work.
- passivists — the quality of being passive.
- patristics — patrology (def 1).
- pediatrist — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
- pedicurist — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- persistent — persistence
- persisting — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- persistive — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- pianistics — (used with a singular verb) the art or practice of playing the piano.
- piccoloist — a person who plays the piccolo.
- pillionist — a passenger riding on the pillion of a motorcycle
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- piston pin — wrist pin.
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- podologist — a person who studies or specializes in podology
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- populistic — a member of the People's party.
- portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
- positivist — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presentist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled. Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.