Words ending with: ive

11 letter words that end with ive

suffocative superlative suppressive suppurative syncopative terminative titillative translative unassertive uncombative underactive unintuitive uninventive unobtrusive unreceptive unselective vindicative

10 letter words that end with ive

abdicative abreactive abrogative absolutive absorptive abstersive accusative adaptative adequative adjunctive admirative admonitive adsorptive advocative affinitive afflictive affrontive aggressive alterative ampliative annotative apperceive appetitive appointive appositive appraisive ascriptive assaultive assumptive attractive automotive capacitive cogitative collective combustive completive compulsive conceptive concessive conclusive concoctive concussive conductive congestive connective constative consultive contortive convective convictive convulsive copulative corrective corruptive cumulative cunctative decorative dedicative definitive deflective degressive denotative depressive depurative derivative derogative detonative detractive digressive diminutive discursive dismissive dispersive disruptive dissuasive dominative enervative estimative evacuative evaluative excitative execrative exhaustive exhibitive exploitive expositive expressive extinctive extractive federative figurative generative hypoactive imperative impressive imputative inchoative incubative indecisive indicative indurative infinitive inflective inflictive ingressive inhibitive initiative injunctive innovative inspective irrelative irritative lacerative limitative locomotive meditative mitigative motivative nominative nonpassive oppressive overactive palliative pejorative pendentive perceptive percussive perfective permeative permissive persuasive perversive possessive preceptive preclusive predictive preemptive preventive productive projective propulsive protective protensive protrusive recitative reconceive recreative redemptive reflective refractive regressive regulative renovative reparative repetitive repressive resorptive respective responsive ruminative separative simulative subjective submissive subversive successive suggestive suppletive supportive surjective susceptive suspensive tolerative transitive ulcerative uncoercive uncreative vasoactive vegetative vindictive

9 letter words that end with ive

Palmolive acceptive accretive addictive adductive adjective adjustive admissive advective adventive affective agitative ascensive assertive assuasive attentive bijective bioactive calmative caressive causative cognitive collative collusive combative conducive corrasive corrosive deceptive decretive deductive defective defensive depletive detective detersive diffusive digestive directive educative effective emanative embracive emulative evocative exceptive excessive exclusive excursive executive expansive expensive expletive explosive expulsive extensive extortive extrusive exudative factitive forgetive formative fricative gerundive hortative imitative impactive impassive implosive impulsive incentive inceptive inclusive inductive infective ingestive injective intensive intrusive intuitive invective inventive inversive irruptive iterative laudative lucrative mediative narrative nonnative normative nutritive objective obsessive obtrusive occlusive offensive operative ostensive overdrive oxidative partitive pervasive placative plaintive pollutive portative prelusive primitive privative proactive probative promotive purgative purposive radiative receptive recessive reclusive recursive reductive reflexive rejective remissive repulsive resistive retentive revulsive seclusive secretive seductive selective sensitive suffusive summative talkative tentative undeceive violative

8 letter words that end with ive

abessive ablative abortive abrasive adaptive additive adessive adhesive adoptive agentive allative allusive auditive aversive coactive coderive coercive cohesive conative conceive contrive creative crescive curative decisive delusive denotive derisive dilative dilutive divisive donative durative eductive effusive egestive ejective elective emissive emulsive enactive erective ergative eruptive evincive exertive fixative fugitive genitive ideative illative illusive inactive incisive infusive invasive laxative lenitive ligative locative misdrive monitive mutative negative nosedive omissive optative orective outdrive overlive perceive plausive positive postdive punitive putative reactive relative restrive rotative sanative sedative seducive sorptive sportive tractive vegetive vocative volitive vomitive

7 letter words that end with ive

abusive amative amusive archive beehive captive codrive connive costive cursive deceive deprive elative elusive emotive erosive evasive festive fictive forgive furtive jussive khedive massive misgive mislive missive outgive outlive passive pensive plosive predive receive redrive restive skydive stative suasive survive tensive tussive unitive

6 letter words that end with ive

active arrive belive dative derive endive glaive motive native regive relive revive scrive shrive strive thrive unlive updive visive votive

5 letter words that end with ive

Clive alive chive drive naive ogive olive reive shive skive swive

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