16-letter words containing ist
- chest specialist — a physician who specializes in diseases affecting the organs in the chest
- chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
- christening robe — a long white dress worn by a baby at his or her christening
- christian action — an inter-Church movement formed in 1946 to promote Christian ideals in society at large
- christmas beetle — any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer
- christmas cactus — a Brazilian cactus, Schlumbergera (formerly Zygocactus) truncatus, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its showy red flowers
- christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
- christmas factor — a protein implicated in the process of blood clotting, the lack of which causes Christmas disease
- christmas hamper — a collection of seasonal delicacies, often housed in a wicker hamper, which people or organizations give as Christmas presents
- christmas island — an island in the Indian Ocean, south of Java: administered by Singapore (1900–58), now by Australia; phosphate mining. Pop: 1496 (2013 est). Area: 135 sq km (52 sq miles)
- christmas lights — strings of lights put up in the Christmas period to decorate houses
- clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- coadministration — Joint administration.
- collaborationist — A collaborationist government or individual is one that helps or gives support to the enemy during the war.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
- congressionalist — of or relating to a congress.
- consequentialist — the theory that human actions derive their moral worth solely from their outcomes or consequences.
- conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
- constitutionists — Plural form of constitutionist.
- constructionists — Plural form of constructionist.
- contrabassoonist — Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
- controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
- conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
- cornet à pistons — a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
- cornet-a-pistons — cornet (def 1).
- counterculturist — Counterculturalist.
- counterterrorist — Intended to combat terrorism.
- crease-resistant — (of a fabric, garment, etc) designed to remain uncreased when subjected to wear or use
- creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
- cross-resistance — immunologic resistance to the pathogenic effects of a microorganism because of previous exposure to another species or type having cross-reactive antigens.
- cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
- cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
- dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
- dental hygienist — a dentist's assistant skilled in dental hygiene
- dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- diamond district — the part of a town where diamond merchants and jewellers have their businesses
- distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
- distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
- distributionally — In a distributional manner.
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- district council — the local ruling body of an urban or rural district.
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
- drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
- dry distillation — destructive distillation.