9-letter words containing ist
- paysagist — a painter of landscapes
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- peristeri — a city in SE Greece, constituting part of Greater Athens.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- peronista — Peronist.
- persisted — 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.
- persister — 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.
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- physicist — a scientist who specializes in physics.
- pianistic — relating to, characteristic of, or adaptable for the piano.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pietistic — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pinchfist — a miser
- pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prosodist — an expert in prosody.
- protistan — 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.
- protistic — of or relating to the kingdom Protista
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- putschist — a participant in a putsch.
- questrist — one who quests
- racialist — racism.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- re-enlist — to (cause to) re-enter into an engagement to serve in the armed forces
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
- recyclist — a person who recycles
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- registrar — a person who keeps a record; an official recorder.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to