7-letter words that end in ist
- oligist — (mineralogy) Hematite or specular iron ore.
- ologist — an expert or student in an academic branch of learning
- onanist — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- oralist — an advocate of oralism.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- persist — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- pianist — a person who plays the piano, especially one who performs expertly or professionally.
- piarist — a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- pietist — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- plenist — a person who adheres to the philosophical theory of plenism
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- pollist — a person who advocates the use of polls
- poloist — a person who plays or is devoted to polo
- protist — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- querist — a person who inquires or questions.
- rankist — involving or showing discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- rappist — Harmonist.
- realist — a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- retwist — to twist again
- revuist — someone who writes revues or light theatre consisting of satirical sketches
- rhymist — a person who rhymes
- s twist — a direction of the twist in yarns, from top left to bottom right, resembling the long stroke of the letter S.
- sacrist — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- selfist — a selfish person
- sizeist — discriminating on the basis of a person's size, esp against people considered to be overweight
- slavist — a specialist in the study of Slavic languages, cultures, etc.
- soloist — a person who performs a solo.
- sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- specist — discrimination in favor of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.
- statist — statistician.
- stylist — a writer or speaker who is skilled in or who cultivates a literary style.
- subsist — to exist; continue in existence.
- summist — a writer of a summa or summae, such as Aquinas
- tennist — a tennis player
- titlist — a titleholder; champion.
- tourist — a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure.
- tropist — someone who uses tropes
- tsarist — of, relating to, or characteristic of a czar or the system and principles of government under a czar.
- tubaist — a musician who plays the tuba
- tzarist — of, relating to, or characteristic of a czar or the system and principles of government under a czar.
- unalist — a priest holding only one benefice or stipendiary church office
- untwist — to untangle
- uphoist — to raise or hoist upwards
- utopist — utopianism.
- vacuist — a person who believes in the existence of vacuums between molecules and atoms of matter or between bodies of the universe
- violist — a person who plays the viola.
- warmist — Also called global warmist. a person who accepts global warming as a reality (a term used by people who reject the concept).
- yahwist — a writer of the earliest major source of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Yahweh rather than Elohim.