12-letter words containing nist
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- ministration — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- misogynistic — reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women.
- neoplatonist — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- noncommunist — not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.
- nutritionist — a person who is trained or expert in the science of nutrition.
- oil minister — a government official responsible for the oil industry in their country
- opportunists — Plural form of opportunist.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- rejectionist — an Arab leader or country that opposes accommodation or compromise in negotiations with Israel.
- retentionist — a person who advocates the retention of something, esp capital punishment
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- saltationist — a person who adheres to saltationism
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- sensationist — someone who makes use of or creates sensation, esp a writer or actor
- sinisterness — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sinisterwise — in a leftwards direction
- sinistrality — the state or quality of having the left side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the right side or its parts or members; left-handedness.
- sinistration — the quality or state of being left-handed.
- situationist — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- traditionist — a traditionalist.
- transnistria — a region of E Moldova: unilaterally declared itself independent in 1990 and was the scene of fighting between government troops and separatists in 1992; to a large extent it functions as a separate republic, but without international recognition
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers