Words that rhyme with astrophysicist

  • abiogenist
    n 1: a believer in abiogenesis
  • activist
    adj 1: advocating or engaged in activism [syn: activist, activistic] n 1: a militant reformer [syn: militant, activist]
  • amethyst
    adj 1: of a moderate purple color n 1: a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone
  • archivist
    n 1: a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives
  • assist
    n 1: the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading" [syn: aid, assist, assistance, help] 2: (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play v 1: give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" [syn: help, assist, aid] 2: act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function 3: work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years" [syn: serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assist]
  • bassist
    n 1: a musician who play the bass viol
  • calligraphist
    n 1: someone skilled in penmanship [syn: calligrapher, calligraphist]
  • ceramicist
    n 1: a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln [syn: potter, thrower, ceramicist, ceramist]
  • classicist
    n 1: an artistic person who adheres to classicism [ant: romantic, romanticist] 2: a student of ancient Greek and Latin [syn: classicist, classical scholar]
  • coexist
    v 1: coexist peacefully, as of nations 2: exist together
  • collectivist
    adj 1: subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively [syn: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, collectivised, state-controlled] n 1: a person who belongs to the political left [syn: collectivist, leftist, left-winger]
  • colonist
    n 1: a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country [syn: settler, colonist]
  • communist
    adj 1: relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda" [syn: communist, communistic] n 1: a member of the communist party 2: a socialist who advocates communism [syn: communist, commie]
  • consist
    v 1: originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" [syn: dwell, consist, lie, lie in] 2: have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?" 3: be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end" 4: be composed of; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" [syn: consist, comprise]
  • constructivist
    n 1: an artist of the school of constructivism
  • cyst
    n 1: a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure 2: a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) [syn: vesicle, cyst]
  • desist
    v 1: choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol" [syn: abstain, refrain, desist] [ant: consume, have, ingest, take, take in]
  • empiricist
    n 1: a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism
  • ethicist
    n 1: a philosopher who specializes in ethics [syn: ethicist, ethician]
  • exorcist
    n 1: one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church 2: someone who practices exorcism [syn: exorcist, exorciser]
  • fantasist
    n 1: a creator of fantasies
  • fascist
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of fascism; "fascist propaganda" [syn: fascist, fascistic] n 1: an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
  • fauvist
    n 1: a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism [syn: Fauve, fauvist]
  • fetishist
    n 1: one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
  • geneticist
    n 1: a biologist who specializes in genetics
  • geophysicist
    n 1: a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth
  • illusionist
    n 1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary, illusionist, seer] 2: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist]
  • insist
    v 1: be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!" [syn: insist, take a firm stand] 2: beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" [syn: importune, insist] 3: assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society" [syn: insist, assert]
  • internist
    n 1: a specialist in internal medicine
  • ironist
    n 1: a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm [syn: satirist, ironist, ridiculer]
  • lyricist
    n 1: a person who writes the words for songs [syn: lyricist, lyrist]
  • misogynist
    n 1: a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: misogynist, woman hater]
  • narcissist
    n 1: someone in love with themselves [syn: narcissist, narcist]
  • negativist
    n 1: someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked 2: someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions [syn: defeatist, negativist]
  • persist
    v 1: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure] 2: be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" [syn: persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on] 3: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay]
  • pharmacist
    n 1: a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs [syn: pharmacist, druggist, chemist, apothecary, pill pusher, pill roller]
  • physicist
    n 1: a scientist trained in physics
  • polemicist
    n 1: a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) [syn: polemicist, polemist, polemic]
  • positivist
    adj 1: of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy" [syn: positivist, positivistic, positive] n 1: someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes [syn: positivist, rationalist]
  • publicist
    n 1: someone who publicizes [syn: publicist, publicizer, publiciser]
  • racist
    adj 1: based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks" 2: discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: racist, antiblack, anti-Semite(a)] n 1: a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racist, racialist]
  • recidivist
    n 1: someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) [syn: recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal] 2: someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior [syn: recidivist, backslider, reversionist]
  • religionist
    n 1: a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
  • reservist
    n 1: a member of a military reserve
  • resist
    v 1: elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation" [syn: defy, resist, refuse] [ant: apply, lend oneself] 2: stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something [syn: resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm] [ant: give up, surrender] 3: express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: protest, resist, dissent] 4: withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow" [syn: resist, stand, fend] 5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: resist, reject, refuse] 6: refuse to comply [syn: resist, balk, baulk, jib]
  • romanticist
    adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic] n 1: someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality [syn: sentimentalist, romanticist] 2: an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism [syn: romanticist, romantic] [ant: classicist]
  • sexist
    adj 1: discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women) n 1: a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women [syn: male chauvinist, sexist]
  • subjectivist
    n 1: a person who subscribes to subjectivism
  • subsist
    v 1: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist]
  • supremacist
    n 1: a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or race over all others
  • theosophist
    n 1: a believer in theosophy
  • trombonist
    n 1: a musician who plays the trombone [syn: trombonist, trombone player]
  • vibraphonist
    n 1: a musician who plays the vibraphone [syn: vibist, vibraphonist]
  • marxist
    adj 1: following the ideas of Marx and Engels n 1: an advocate of Marxism 2: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy]
  • bolshevist
    adj 1: of or relating to Bolshevism; "Bolshevik Revolution" [syn: Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshevistic] n 1: a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party [syn: Bolshevik, Bolshevist]
  • stalinist
    adj 1: of or relating to Joseph Stalin or his times n 1: a follower of Stalin and Stalinism
  • columnist
    n 1: a journalist who writes editorials [syn: columnist, editorialist]
  • nativist
    adj 1: advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn [syn: nativist, nativistic] 2: of or relating to or advocating nativism; "nativist theories"; "the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories" [syn: nativist, nativistic] n 1: a philosopher who subscribes to nativism
  • aerodynamicist
  • anthropomorphist
  • cist
  • epigraphist
  • eugenicist
  • exclusionist
  • geodesist
  • hymnist
  • nematocyst
  • objectivist
  • solipsist
  • spartacist
  • pneumatocyst
  • encyst
  • lagerkvist
  • peronist
  • anglicist
  • vorticist
  • phonemicist

See also astrophysicist definition