Words that rhyme with ethicist

  • 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]
  • astrophysicist
    n 1: an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
  • 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]
  • dismissed
    adj 1: having lost your job [syn: discharged, dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped]
  • empiricist
    n 1: a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism
  • enlist
    v 1: join the military 2: hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support" [syn: engage, enlist] 3: engage somebody to enter the army [syn: enlist, draft, muster in] [ant: discharge, muster out]
  • exist
    v 1: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 2: 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]
  • 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)
  • fist
    n 1: a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) [syn: fist, clenched fist]
  • 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
  • gist
    n 1: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 2: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty]
  • grist
    n 1: grain intended to be or that has been ground
  • 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]
  • midst
    n 1: the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: midst, thick]
  • misogynist
    n 1: a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: misogynist, woman hater]
  • mist
    n 1: a thin fog with condensation near the ground v 1: become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn: mist, mist over] 2: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist] 3: spray finely or cover with mist
  • 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]
  • schist
    n 1: any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
  • 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]
  • tryst
    n 1: a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn: tryst, rendezvous] 2: a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: assignation, tryst]
  • twist
    n 1: an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn" [syn: turn, turn of events, twist] 2: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn: construction, twist] 3: any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" [syn: device, gimmick, twist] 4: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl] 5: a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull" [syn: wrench, twist, pull] 6: a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight [syn: kink, twist, twirl] 7: a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [syn: bend, crook, twist, turn] 8: a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn: eddy, twist] 9: a jerky pulling movement [syn: twist, wrench] 10: a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair [syn: braid, plait, tress, twist] 11: social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s; "they liked to dance the twist" 12: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding, twist] 13: turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room" [syn: twist, turn] v 1: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist] 2: cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, deform, twist, turn] [ant: unbend] 3: turn in the opposite direction; "twist one's head" 4: form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted" [syn: twist, twine, distort] [ant: untwist] 5: form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough" 6: extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve] 7: do the twist 8: twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest" [syn: wrench, twist] 9: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate] 10: twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" [syn: twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick]
  • vibraphonist
    n 1: a musician who plays the vibraphone [syn: vibist, vibraphonist]
  • whist
    n 1: a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six [syn: whist, long whist, short whist]
  • 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]
  • delist
    v 1: remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange
  • preexist
    v 1: exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time; "Did this condition pre-exist?"
  • 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
  • chryst
  • crist
  • frist
  • kist
  • wist
  • baptiste
  • hist
  • spartacist
  • pneumatocyst
  • encyst
  • lagerkvist
  • peronist
  • anglicist
  • vorticist
  • phonemicist

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