12-letter words that end in ist
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- philosophist — a person who affects philosophical knowledge
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
- pictorialist — Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- potamologist — a specialist in potamology
- power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
- pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
- 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.
- proctologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- 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
- seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- sensationist — someone who makes use of or creates sensation, esp a writer or actor
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- situationist — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereotypist — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- storiologist — a person who studies storiology
- subjectivist — Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology