9-letter words that end in ist
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- orthotist — (used with a singular verb) a branch of medicine dealing with the making and fitting of orthotic devices.
- otologist — A doctor specializing in otology. (from 19th c.).
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- passivist — the quality of being passive.
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- paysagist — a painter of landscapes
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- physicist — a scientist who specializes in physics.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pinchfist — a miser
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pogromist — a person who participates in a pogrom
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prosodist — an expert in prosody.
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- putschist — a participant in a putsch.
- questrist — one who quests
- racialist — racism.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- re-enlist — to (cause to) re-enter into an engagement to serve in the armed forces
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
- recyclist — a person who recycles
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- reservist — a person who belongs to a reserve military force of a country.
- rhythmist — a person versed in or having a fine sense of rhythm.
- ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
- ritualist — a student of or authority on ritual practices or religious rites.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- saturnist — a dull, gloomy, or saturnine person thought to be born under the influence of Saturn
- scenarist — a writer of motion-picture or television scenarios.
- scientist — an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.
- semimoist — slightly wet; somewhat moist
- serialist — a writer of serials
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shit list — a list of persons held in extreme disfavor.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- sick list — a list of persons who are sick.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.