9-letter words containing ist
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catechist — a person who catechizes, esp. one who instructs catechumens
- celticist — an expert in Celtic languages or culture.
- centrists — Plural form of centrist.
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerealist — a person who studies cereals and the conditions for their growth
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- checklist — A checklist is a list of all the things that you need to do, information that you want to find out, or things that you need to take somewhere, which you make in order to ensure that you do not forget anything.
- chemist's — a chemist's shop
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chymistry — chemistry.
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- cladistic — relating to the classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- coexisted — Simple past tense and past participle of coexist.
- collagist — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- colonists — Plural form of colonist.
- colorists — Plural form of colorist.
- colourist — A colourist is someone such as an artist or a fashion designer who uses colours in an interesting and original way.
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- communist — A communist is someone who believes in communism.
- computist — a person who computes
- consisted — to be made up or composed (usually followed by of): This cake consists mainly of sugar, flour, and butter.
- cornetist — a person who plays the cornet
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- culturist — a person engaged in the culture of plants or animals
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dadaistic — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- decistere — a measure equivalent to one tenth of a stere
- declinist — a person who believes that something is in decline
- decretist — a person who is knowledgeable on the subject of the Decretals or the papal edicts that make up part of canon law
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.