12-letter words that end in st
- inclusionist — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Describing a wiki user who tends to favor the inclusion of questionable articles.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- inflationist — an advocate of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inkblot test — any of various psychological tests in which varied patterns formed by blots of ink are interpreted by the subject.
- intrusionist — a person who intrudes
- intuitionist — A person who studies intuitionistic mathematics.
- ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
- isolationist — a person who favors or works for isolationism.
- jesus christ — Jesus (def 1).
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- let sth rest — If someone refuses to let a subject rest, they refuse to stop talking about it, especially after they have been talking about it for a long time.
- lexicologist — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- lookout post — a place from which a guard or sentry can keep watch
- lord provost — the chief magistrate of any of certain large cities in Scotland.
- mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
- main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
- malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- marconi mast — an elaborately stayed mast.
- marionettist — A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
- marsh's test — a test to detect minimal amounts of arsenic.
- meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- mercurialist — a person born under the planet Mercury
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
- meterologist — Misspelling of meteorologist.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microscopist — An expert at microscopy.
- migrationist — a person who considers it important for species of animals and plants to migrate for the purposes of distribution and evolution
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- miscellanist — a person who writes, compiles, or edits miscellanies.
- miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
- missiologist — One who studies missiology.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- molinologist — One who studies molinology.
- monochromist — An artist working in the monochromatic style.
- mooring mast — the mast or tower to which a dirigible is moored.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- motorcyclist — a motor vehicle similar to a bicycle but usually larger and heavier, chiefly for one rider but sometimes having two saddles or an attached sidecar for passengers.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.
- musicologist — the scholarly or scientific study of music, as in historical research, musical theory, or the physical nature of sound.
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- nematologist — One who studies nematology.
- 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.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.