| aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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| agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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| arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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| (noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
| automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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| ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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| ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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| (noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
| ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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| ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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| bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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| bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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| blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| cyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, wheeler |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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| duelist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, dueller, duellist |
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| duellist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, dueller |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| enlistee | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: recruit |
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| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| enlistment | (noun) the act of enlisting (as in a military service) | - |
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| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| fundamentalist | (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| hairstylist | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, styler, stylist |
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| herbalist | (noun) a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | Synonyms: herb doctor |
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| idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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| imperialist | (noun) a believer in imperialism | - |
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| individualist | (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
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| industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| internationalist | (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
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| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| journalist | (noun) a writer for newspapers and magazines | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diarist, diary keeper |
| kabbalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: cabalist |
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| liberalist | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, progressive |
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| list | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, tilt |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: listing |
| listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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| listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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| lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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| (noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
| listeria | (noun) any species of the genus Listeria | - |
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| listeriosis | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms | Synonyms: listeria meningitis |
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| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| listlessness | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: torpidity, torpidness, torpor |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, lassitude |
| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| minimalist | (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
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| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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| moralist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems | - |
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| (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, martinet |
| motorcyclist | (noun) a traveler who rides a motorcycle | - |
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| muralist | (noun) a painter of murals | - |
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| nationalist | (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
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| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| neutralist | (noun) an advocate of neutrality in international affairs | - |
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| nihilist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist |
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| (noun) someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | - |
| noctambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalker, somnambulist |
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| nominalist | (noun) a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism | - |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| oculist | (noun) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye | Synonyms: eye doctor, ophthalmologist |
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| (noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: optometrist |
| orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| panelist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panellist |
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| panellist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panelist |
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| philatelist | (noun) a collector and student of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collector |
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| philistine | (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow |
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| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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