8-letter words containing ist
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- puckfist — a puffball fungus
- pugilist — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- rallyist — a person who participates in automobile rallies.
- reassist — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- redistil — to distil again, usually to purify further
- regalist — a person who believes in or promotes regalism
- register — a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
- registry — Windows Registry
- reinsist — to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
- relisten — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- resisted — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- resister — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- resistor — a device designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit.
- reverist — someone who tends to daydream or is inclined to reveries
- rightist — of or relating to conservative or reactionary political views; noting or characteristic of the political Right.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- ruralist — one who leads or advocates a rural life
- sacristy — an apartment in or a building connected with a church or a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- safarist — a person on safari
- sapphist — a lesbian
- sarodist — a person who plays the sarod
- satanist — the worship of Satan or the powers of evil.
- satirist — a writer of satires.
- sciolist — superficial knowledge.
- sea mist — a mist over or from the sea.
- semitist — an authority on Semitic languages, literature, etc.
- shitlist — a list of persons held in extreme disfavor.
- shootist — a marksman with a pistol or rifle.
- silurist — a member of the ancient Silurian tribe
- simplist — a herbalist
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sisterly — of, like, or befitting a sister: sisterly affection.
- sistroid — contained between the convex sides of two intersecting curves
- slaister — a sloppy mess
- sodalist — a member of a sodality.
- sodomist — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- solidist — someone who adheres to solidism
- somatist — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- sophists — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- stockist — a wholesale or retail establishment that stocks merchandise.
- subtrist — slightly sad; not completely sad
- tachiste — an artist who practises tachisme
- tanaiste — the vice-Taoiseach or deputy prime minister of the Republic of Ireland