-ist

A collector of silver mugs.

A specialist in taphonomy.

Someone who uses tautological words or phrases.

1. A craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display: The taxidermist who prepared the owls for the natural history museum used glass eyes to give them an authentic and realistic appearance.
2. Etymology: from Greek tasxis, "arrangement, order" + derma, "skin" + -ist, "a person who does something". © ALL rights are reserved.

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A love for or fondness of technicalities.

Someone who is versed in technology.

Someone who transmits messages or signals to a distant receiver.

1. Someone who has the power of extrasensory perception; mind reader: Tom thought his girlfriend was a telepathist because she usually knew what he was thinking without asking at all!
2. An individual who appeares to read the thoughts of another person: Steven knew a magician who was a telepathist and seemed to know the thoughts of others, normally by having an assistant who gave him clever signs or cues.

1. Someone who uses a telescope.
2. Anyone who participates in the operations of telescopes.

British, a collector of biscuit tins; where “biscuit” means the American “cracker” or “cookie”.

A specialist in teratology.

Someone who believes in the practice of terraforming: Simon, a terraformist, was convinced of the idea of modifying the habitat of another planet to make it similar to the Earth, and therefore suitable for people to live there!