| CAREERIST | • careerist n. (Derogatory) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values. • careerist n. A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily. • careerist adj. Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life. |
| DIPTERIST | • dipterist n. An entomologist who specializes in the order Diptera (true flies). • DIPTERIST n. a person who studies flies. |
| ERISTICAL | • eristical adj. Obsolete form of eristic. • ERISTICAL adj. pertaining to dispute, argument or controversy, also ERISTIC. |
| ETHERISTS | • etherists n. Plural of etherist. • ETHERIST n. one who administers ether. |
| GALLERIST | • gallerist n. The owner or operator of an art gallery. • GALLERIST n. a person who owns or runs an art gallery. |
| HETAERIST | • hetaerist n. A practitioner or advocate of hetaerism. • HETAERIST n. an advocate of hetaerism, concubinage, also HETAIRIST. |
| MANNERIST | • mannerist n. Someone especially interested in personal manners. • mannerist n. One who has many idiosyncratic mannerisms. • mannerist n. A proponent of mannerism in literature or art. |
| MERISTEMS | • meristems n. Plural of meristem. • MERISTEM n. embryonic plant tissue capable of growth by division. |
| MESMERIST | • mesmerist n. One who mesmerizes. • MESMERIST n. one that practises mesmerism. |
| NEOTERIST | • neoterist n. One who introduces new words or phrases. • NEOTERIST n. one who introduces new words or phrases. |
| PERISTOME | • peristome n. (Botany) One or two rings of tooth-like appendages surrounding the opening of the capsule of many mosses. • peristome n. (Zoology) The parts of or surrounding the mouths of numerous invertebrates. • peristome n. The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell. |
| PERISTYLE | • peristyle n. A colonnade surrounding a courtyard, temple, etc., or the yard enclosed by such columns. • peristyle n. A porch surrounded by columns. • peristyle n. (Voodoo) A sacred roofed courtyard with a central pillar (the potomitan), used as a space for voodoo… |
| PRETERIST | • preterist n. One whose chief interest is in the past. • preterist n. (Theology) An adherent of preterism; one who believes that the Biblical prophecies of the Apocalypse… • PRETERIST n. a person who holds that the prophecies of the Apocalypse have been already fulfilled. |
| REVERISTS | • reverists n. Plural of reverist. • REVERIST n. a person who has reveries. |
| WORKERIST | • workerist adj. Relating to workerism. • workerist n. A proponent of workerism. • WORKERIST n. one who supports worker's rights. |
| ZITHERIST | • zitherist n. Someone who plays the zither. • ZITHERIST n. one who plays the zither. |
| ZOOPERIST | • ZOOPERIST n. one who experiments on lower animals. |