abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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absolutist | (noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
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abstractionist | (noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
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accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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activist | (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
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aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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aetiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: etiologist |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agronomist | (noun) an expert in soil management and field-crop production | - |
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alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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alchemist | (noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
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algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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allergist | (noun) a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies | - |
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alpinist | (noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs | - |
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altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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anecdotist | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: raconteur |
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anesthesiologist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthetist |
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anesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthesiologist |
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angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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animist | (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
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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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antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
anthologist | (noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology | - |
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anthropologist | (noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology | - |
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antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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apologist | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: justifier, vindicator |
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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 | - |
arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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(noun) a person who archaizes | - |
archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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artist | (noun) a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination | Synonyms: creative person |
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assist | (noun) (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play | - |
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(noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assistance, help |
astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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atavist | (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: throwback |
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atheist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god | - |
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automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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bacteriologist | (noun) a biologist who studies bacteria | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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behaviorist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
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behaviourist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
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bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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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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biochemist | (noun) someone with special training in biochemistry | - |
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biologist | (noun) (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms | Synonyms: life scientist |
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biophysicist | (noun) a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology | - |
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blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
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bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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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 | - |
calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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canonist | (noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
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capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
cardiologist | (noun) a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart | Synonyms: heart specialist, heart surgeon |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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centrist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
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ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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(noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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chemist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in chemistry | - |
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(noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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