6-letter words containing ist
- isthmi — a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
- istria — a peninsula at the N end of the Adriatic, in SW Slovenia and W Croatia.
- joists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of joist.
- jurist — a person versed in the law, as a judge, lawyer, or scholar.
- kistna — former name of Krishna (def 2).
- kleist — (Bernd) Heinrich (Wilhelm) von [bernt hahyn-rikh vil-helm fuh n] /bɛrnt ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1777–1811, German poet, dramatist, and story writer.
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- legist — an expert in law, especially ancient law.
- listed — made of selvages or strips of cloth.
- listee — a person, business, etc., that is included in a list or directory.
- listel — a narrow list or fillet.
- listen — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- lister — a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth.
- liston — Sonny, real name Charles. 1922–70, US boxer: former world heavyweight champion
- lutist — a lute player; lutenist.
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- manist — Ancestor-worshipper.
- maoist — the political, social, economic, and military theories and policies advocated by Mao Zedong, as those concerning revolutionary movements and guerrilla warfare.
- marist — a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- mistag — (transitive) To tag incorrectly; to mislabel.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- misted — Simple past tense and past participle of mist.
- mister — a spray, nozzle, or similar device for misting plants.
- mistic — A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean, rigged partly like a xebec and partly like a felucca.
- mistle — (obsolete) mistletoe.
- modist — (archaic) A follower of fashion.
- moisty — Moist.
- monist — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- nistru — Romanian name of Dniester.
- notist — (obsolete) An annotator.
- nudist — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- oboist — a player of the oboe.
- oecist — a person who colonizes, particularly in Ancient Greece
- papist — a Roman Catholic.
- pisted — marked off into pistes
- pistil — the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma.
- pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- pistou — a type of sauce from Provence, made from olive oil, basil, garlic, tomatoes, and cheese
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- racist — a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- rapist — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- relist — to list again
- resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
- ristra — a string of dried chilies, garlic, or other foodstuffs.
- sadist — Psychiatry. a person who has the condition of sadism, in which one receives sexual gratification from causing pain and degradation to another.
- schist — any of a class of crystalline metamorphic rocks whose constituent mineral grains have a more or less parallel or foliated arrangement.
- sexist — relating to, involving, or fostering sexism, or attitudes and behavior toward someone based on the person's gender: a sexist remark; sexist advertising.
- sister — a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- sistra — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.