16-letter words containing ist
- electrochemistry — The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
- endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
- environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
- equidistribution — An equal distribution.
- ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- existentialistic — Existentialist.
- father christmas — Santa Claus.
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- feline distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- finance minister — a member of a government in charge of the financial affairs of a state etc
- folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
- foreign minister — (in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called, especially British, foreign secretary. Compare secretary of state (def 1).
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
- gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
- geochronologists — Plural form of geochronologist.
- gossip columnist — a person who writes a gossip column
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- hamming distance — (data) The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
- headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
- high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
- histopathologist — A person involved in histopathology.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- hyperperistalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
- hypocoristically — In a hypocoristic manner.
- indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
- institutionalist — the system of institutions or organized societies devoted to public, charitable, or similar purposes.
- instrumentalists — Plural form of instrumentalist.
- interministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
- internationalist — an advocate of internationalism.
- introspectionist — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- irresistibleness — The quality of being irresistible.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
- lachryma christi — a table wine produced from grapes grown near Vesuvius, in Italy.
- lateral meristem — meristem located along the sides of a part, as a stem or root.
- lexicostatistics — the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes.
- liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
- linguistic atlas — dialect atlas.