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581 words match “GIST”

COSMOLOGIST n.
One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
CRANIOLOGIST n.
One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.
CRUSTACEOLOGIST n.
One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
CRUSTALOGIST n.
One versed in crustalogy.
DECALOGIST n.
One who explains the decalogue. J. Gregory.
DEMONOLOGIST n.
One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.
DENDROLOGIST n.
One versed in the natural history of trees.
DEONTOLOGIST n.
One versed in deontology.
DEPHLOGISTICCATE v.
To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.
DERMATOLOGIST n.
One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.
DIALOGIST n. 2 definitions
A speaker in a dialogue.
DIALOGISTIC; DIALOGISTICAL a.
Pertaining to a dialogue; having the form or nature of a dialogue. -- Di*al`o*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.
DRAMATURGIST n.
One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.
DRUGGIST n.
One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.
DYSLOGISTIC a.
Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic. There is no course of conduct for which dyslogistic or eulogistic epithets may be found. J. F. Stephen. The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, Jeremy Bentham. Fitzed. Hall.…
ECCLESIOLOGIST n.
One versed in ecclesiology.
EGYPTOLOGER; EGYPTOLOGIST n.
One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.
ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST n.
One versed in electro-biology.
ELEGIST n.
A write of elegies. T. Warton.
ELOGIST n.
One who pronounces an éloge.
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