9-letter words containing ist
- reservist — a person who belongs to a reserve military force of a country.
- resistant — resisting.
- resistate — any of the class of sediments, as sand or sandstone, consisting chiefly of minerals resistant to weathering.
- resisting — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- rhythmist — a person versed in or having a fine sense of rhythm.
- ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
- ritualist — a student of or authority on ritual practices or religious rites.
- roisterer — to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- sacristan — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- saturnist — a dull, gloomy, or saturnine person thought to be born under the influence of Saturn
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- scientist — an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.
- semimoist — slightly wet; somewhat moist
- semistiff — somewhat or fairly stiff; partially stiff
- serialist — a writer of serials
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shit list — a list of persons held in extreme disfavor.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- sick list — a list of persons who are sick.
- simonists — the making of profit out of sacred things.
- simpliste — someone who tends to over-simplify
- sinistral — of, relating to, or on the left side; left (opposed to dextral).
- sinistro- — of, at, or toward the left
- sitarists — a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- slaistery — resembling slaister
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- socialist — an advocate or supporter of socialism.
- solipsist — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
- soloistic — relating to soloists or solo parts
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sorbonist — a student or graduate of the Sorbonne.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- spiralist — a person or thing that ascends in a spiral structure
- splittist — a person who advocates separation from a larger body
- stalinist — of or relating to Joseph Stalin or Stalinism.
- statistic — a numerical fact or datum, especially one computed from a sample.
- stocklist — a list or inventory of all the items in stock
- stylistic — of or relating to style.
- summarist — a person who summarizes
- syllogist — a person who engages in syllogistic argument.
- symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
- synergist — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. a body organ, medicine, etc., that cooperates with another or others to produce or enhance an effect.
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
- tactilist — an artist whose work strives to appeal to the sense of touch