8-letter words containing ist
- baptista — a female given name.
- baptists — a member of a Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion and that is usually Calvinistic in doctrine.
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- barrista — Misspelling of barista.
- bassists — Plural form of bassist.
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bistable — having two stable states
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.
- canonist — a specialist in canon law
- casuists — Plural form of casuist.
- cellists — Plural form of cellist.
- celloist — (rare) synonym of cellist.
- centoist — a person who composes centos
- centrist — Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme.
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- chartist — a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- christer — a Christian, esp. one actively engaged in proselytizing or evangelizing
- christie — Dame Agatha (Mary Clarissa). 1890–1976, British author of detective stories, many featuring Hercule Poirot, and several plays, including The Mousetrap (1952)
- christly — of Jesus Christ; Christlike
- christo- — indicating or relating to Christ
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- cisterns — Plural form of cistern.
- cistrons — Plural form of cistron.
- cistvaen — a pre-Christian stone coffin or burial chamber
- civilist — a civilian
- cladists — Plural form of cladist.
- classist — Of or pertaining to classism.
- cloister — A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral.
- clubbist — a member of a club
- coassist — to assist jointly