9-letter words that end in ist
- legendist — a person who writes or compiles legends.
- lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
- life list — a list of species sighted and identified by a bird watcher or naturalist over a lifetime.
- liturgist — an authority on liturgies.
- 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.
- machinist — a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.
- 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.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- medallist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- memoirist — a person who writes memoirs.
- mentalist — a person who believes in or advocates mentalism.
- mesmerist — hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
- metallist — a person who works with metals.
- meteorist — a person who studies meteors
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- misoneist — hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
- mnemonist — Someone able to perform feats of memory, especially by utilizing mnemonic techniques.
- modellist — a person who constructs models
- modernist — a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
- mosaicist — a person who works in mosaic.
- motettist — a person who composes or sings motets
- motionist — a person who proposes arguments and counter-arguments in a controversy
- mutualist — a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- myologist — the science or branch of anatomy dealing with muscles.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- nationist — (sociolinguistics) A language used for the day-to-day functioning of government \u2013 official forms, intra-government communication.
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neologist — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neoterist — a person who is keen on innovation and novelty
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nonartist — a person who is not an artist
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonsexist — not showing prejudice on the basis of gender: nonsexist language in business letters.
- nontheist — One who is not a theist; an atheist.
- notionist — a person whose opinions are merely notions, not based in fact
- occultist — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
- octobrist — a member of a Russian political party that advocated constitutional monarchism: so called because it was organized after the Czar's manifesto in October, 1905.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- odonatist — a person who studies or is expert in insects that belong to the zoological group Odonata
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- origamist — A person who does origami.