1 syllable:
-cyst, blissed, brist, chiste, chryst, cist, ciste, crist, cryst, cyst-, d-list, dissed, fist, flist, frist, ghrist, gist, glist, grist, hissed, hist-, j-list, kissed, kist, kiste, krist, list, liszt, midst, missed, mist, miste, nist, prist, quist, rist, schist, thrist, trist, tryst, twist, twiste, vist, whist, wist, wiste, wrist

2 syllables:
a-list, absist, ahlquist, arm-twist, armslist, asist, assist, autist, b-list, baalist, baathist, backlist, ballist, baptiste, blacklist, blocklist, blomkvist, blomquist, bloodfist, bloomquist, booklist, c-list, check-list, checklist, class list, clenched fist, clubfist, consist, contrist, craigslist, cronquist, dahlquist, deiist, delist, desist, dismissed, edquist, elmquist, encyst, enlist, enquist, entwist, exist, fauvist, foilist, forewiste, free list, frontlist, frost mist, granquist, grossiste, guestlist, gulist, hedquist, hitfist, holist, holmquist, hotlist, incyst, inlist, insist, intwist, jahvist, jahwist, john list, juist, lindquist, lingvist, logist, lundquist, maciste, melquist, modiste, newquist, oocyst, ovist, patrist, pequiste, persist, price list, puckfist, ramqvist, rehnquist, resist, rexist, rundquist, runquist, sandquist, seaquist, sechrist, shitlist, short-list, shortlist, short list, sick-list, sick list, simplist, snow mist, sophist, sporocyst, steenkiste, stenquist, stock list, stromquist, subsist, sun-kissed, sundquist, sunkist, truist, unkissed, unmissed, untwist, unwist, uprist, volksliste, wahlquist, whitelist, winquist, youngquist, zavist

3 syllables:
acmeist, aeolist, aerocyst, altruist, angerfist, artivist, autopsist, blastocyst, bolshevist, bonavist, butterkist, cartelist, cholecyst, chylocyst, co-exist, coexist, collybist, conclavist, dactylist, decadist, ectocyst, egoist, egoiste, endocyst, euphemist, famulist, fantasist, fibrocyst, frescoist, hacktivist, hairstylist, hedonist, hellenist, hydrocyst, hypnocyst, idolist, idylist, inexist, intertwist, jean-baptiste, jihadist, jingoist, judaist, lampadist, lithocyst, macrocyst, mailing-list, mailing list, menshevist, metacryst, microcyst, miserablist, mucomyst, narcisist, nativist, ni-resist, nonsexist, nontheist, nullibist, oculist, otocyst, ovicyst, pansclavist, pantheist, phenocryst, plagiarist, postexist, powerlist, pre-exist, preexist, pseudocyst, punctuist, re-enlist, reenlist, reminisced, schindler's list, shamanist, sibylist, speciesist, statocyst, synergist, theorbist, trichocyst, tritheist, trotskyist, urocyst, voodooist, waiting list, wunderlist, xenocryst, zoocyst, zoophilist

4 syllables:
alcoholist, anthologist, antisexist, arctophilist, characterised, chirosophist, chrysophilist, cognitivist, confucianist, ctenocyst, cynophilist, dacryocyst, deipnosophist, dermatocyst, descriptivist, diatribist, emotivist, enamellist, gymnosophist, hematocyst, henotheist, heterocyst, hylotheist, intensivist, iucn red list, karateist, michael nyqvist, monotheist, necrophilist, negativist, nematocyst, noctambulist, notaphilist, numismatist, oenophilist, panhellenist, parallelist, pediatrist, philhellenist, philosophist, photoresist, physiatrist, pneumatocyst, podiatrist, polytheist, positivist, postfeminist, prescriptivist, primitivist, proctologist, punctualist, recidivist, relativist, ritualist, russophilist, sagittocyst, somatocyst, spermatocyst, stegophilist, stethoscopist, theosophist, volapukist, voluntarist

5 syllables:
acephalocyst, anthroposophist, automobilist, automobiliste, bibliophagist, bibliophilist, bibliotaphist, cnidocyst, comparativist, conservativist, corporativist, cranioscopist, iconodulist, iconophilist, intuitivist, laryngoscopist, oligopolist, ophiophilist, rodomontadist, tentaculocyst

6 syllables:
experientiallist, individualiste, kirby howell-baptiste, marianne jean-baptiste, neopositivist

1 syllable:
lift, thrift, shift, sift, wished, dished, gift, swift, rift, shrift, drift, clift

2 syllables:
ski lift, swing shift, stick shift, split shift, adrift, face lift, night shift, short shrift, chair lift, day shift, face-lift, resift, snowdrift, spindrift, spoondrift, tree swift, unwished, work shift

3 syllables:
graveyard shift, doppler shift, chimney swift, be adrift, birthday gift, christmas gift, crested swift, evening shift, wedding gift

4 syllables:
jonathan swift

5 syllables:
continental drift, european swift, philanthropic gift, population shift