speleologist, spelaeologist Someone who specializes in the scientific study of caves and other karst (landscape of distinctive dissolution patterns often marked by underground drainages) features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorp... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1994/