9-letter words containing ist
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- labellist — a person who wears only clothes with fashionable brand names
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- legendist — a person who writes or compiles legends.
- leucistic — having reduced pigmentation in the skin but normally coloured eyes
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- life list — a list of species sighted and identified by a bird watcher or naturalist over a lifetime.
- linguists — Plural form of linguist.
- listen in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- listen-in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listeners — Plural form of listener.
- listeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of listen.
- listening — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- listerism — an antiseptic method introduced by Joseph Lister, involving the spraying of the parts under operation with a carbolic acid solution.
- listerize — to treat (a patient, disease, etc.) using the methods of Joseph Lister.
- listicles — Plural form of listicle.
- listservs — Plural form of listserv.
- lithistid — a sponge, of the group Lithistida, consisting of small spikes which form a skeletal structure
- liturgist — an authority on liturgies.
- lobbyists — Plural form of lobbyist.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- logistics — symbolic logic.
- long-list — A long-list for something such as a job or a prize is a large group that has been chosen from all the people who applied for the job, or all the people or things that are competing for the prize. The successful ones from this group are chosen to go on the shortlist.
- loyalists — Plural form of loyalist.
- lutenists — Plural form of lutenist.
- lyricists — Plural form of lyricist.
- machinist — a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
- magisters — Plural form of magister.
- magistery — an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.
- magistral — Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy. Compare officinal (def 1).
- maistring — ruling or subduing
- mannerist — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- massagist — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- matchlist — a list of names, telephone numbers, and related information compiled to help people find others who are willing to share a resource or service, as a car pool.