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Words That End With TIVE
6-Letter Words
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5 found
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active
dative
motive
native
votive
7-Letter Words
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11 found
)
amative
captive
costive
elative
emotive
festive
fictive
furtive
restive
stative
unitive
8-Letter Words
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58 found
)
ablative
abortive
adaptive
additive
adoptive
agentive
auditive
coactive
conative
creative
curative
denotive
dilative
dilutive
donative
durative
eductive
egestive
ejective
elective
enactive
equative
erective
ergative
eruptive
eventive
exaptive
exertive
fixative
fugitive
genitive
ideative
illative
inactive
laxative
lenitive
ligative
locative
monitive
mutative
negative
optative
orective
positive
punitive
putative
reactive
relative
rotative
sanative
sedative
sorptive
sportive
tractive
vegetive
vocative
volitive
vomitive
9-Letter Words
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88 found
)
acceptive
accretive
addictive
adjective
adjustive
advective
adventive
affective
agitative
assertive
assistive
attentive
bijective
bioactive
calmative
causative
cognitive
combative
deceptive
decretive
deductive
depletive
detective
digestive
directive
educative
effective
emanative
emulative
evocative
exceptive
executive
expletive
extortive
exudative
factitive
forgetive
formative
fricative
hortative
imitative
impactive
incentive
inceptive
inductive
infective
ingestive
injective
intuitive
invective
inventive
irruptive
iterative
laudative
lucrative
mediative
narrative
nonnative
normative
nutritive
objective
operative
oxidative
partitive
placative
plaintive
pollutive
portative
privative
proactive
probative
promotive
purgative
quotative
radiative
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10-Letter Words
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123 found
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absolutive
absorptive
accusative
adjunctive
adsorptive
advocative
afflictive
annotative
appetitive
appointive
appositive
ascriptive
assaultive
assumptive
attractive
automotive
capacitive
cogitative
collective
combustive
completive
conceptive
concoctive
conductive
congestive
connective
constative
consultive
contortive
convective
copulative
corrective
corruptive
cumulative
cunctative
decorative
definitive
deflective
denotative
derivative
derogative
detonative
detractive
diminutive
disruptive
dominative
estimative
evacuative
evaluative
excitative
execrative
exhaustive
exhibitive
exploitive
expositive
extinctive
extractive
federative
figurative
generative
imperative
imputative
inchoative
incubative
indicative
indurative
infinitive
inflective
inflictive
inhibitive
initiative
injunctive
innovative
inspective
irrelative
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11-Letter Words
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154 found
)
abstractive
acetylative
acquisitive
adumbrative
adversative
affirmative
affricative
aggregative
alternative
appellative
applicative
arbitrative
argumentive
associative
assortative
attributive
carminative
celebrative
circulative
colligative
combinative
commutative
comparative
competitive
conflictive
confutative
conjunctive
connotative
consecutive
consumptive
contractive
contrastive
cooperative
corporative
correlative
declarative
deformative
degradative
delineative
denigrative
descriptive
desiccative
designative
destructive
devastative
deverbative
diapositive
disjunctive
dispositive
dissipative
distinctive
distractive
duplicative
elaborative
eliminative
elucidative
enumerative
evaporative
exfoliative
exhortative
exonerative
expectative
explanative
explicative
explorative
facultative
germinative
gravitative
hyperactive
imaginative
implicative
inattentive
ineffective
informative
inoculative
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12-Letter Words
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100 found
)
accelerative
accumulative
adjudicative
alliterative
ameliorative
apperceptive
appreciative
articulative
asseverative
assimilative
augmentative
compensative
conciliative
consecrative
constitutive
constrictive
constructive
consultative
consummative
continuative
contributive
coordinative
decongestive
degenerative
deliberative
denominative
denunciative
depreciative
desiderative
disincentive
dissociative
distributive
ditransitive
exaggerative
excogitative
exhilarative
exploitative
facilitative
fermentative
illuminative
illustrative
imperceptive
imperfective
infiltrative
intellective
interdictive
interpretive
interruptive
intransitive
maladjustive
manipulative
nonaddictive
nonassertive
noncognitive
nondeceptive
nondeductive
nondirective
noneffective
nonexecutive
nonimitative
noninductive
noninfective
nonintuitive
nonnarrative
nonnormative
nonnutritive
nonobjective
nonoperative
nonselective
nonsensitive
obliterative
opinionative
performative
posteruptive
postpositive
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13-Letter Words
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77 found
)
accommodative
acculturative
agglomerative
agglutinative
appropriative
approximative
argumentative
authoritative
collaborative
commemorative
commiserative
communicative
concentrative
configurative
contaminative
contemplative
contraceptive
corroborative
counteractive
demonstrative
deteriorative
determinative
exteroceptive
extrapolative
frequentative
gesticulative
hyperreactive
inconsecutive
incorporative
indistinctive
interoceptive
interpolative
interrogative
introspective
investigative
justificative
nonabsorptive
nonautomotive
nonconductive
noncumulative
nonderivative
nondisruptive
nonevaluative
nonexploitive
nonfigurative
nonproductive
nonsubjective
overassertive
oversensitive
overtalkative
participative
perioperative
perseverative
photonegative
photopositive
postoperative
precipitative
prefigurative
premeditative
proliferative
ratiocinative
reciprocative
recriminative
reduplicative
reintegrative
remonstrative
resuscitative
retrospective
reverberative
significative
subordinative
transmutative
uncompetitive
uncooperative
unimaginative
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14-Letter Words
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50 found
)
administrative
antiderivative
antireflective
chemoreceptive
conglomerative
contrapositive
cryoprotective
deconstructive
disaggregative
discriminative
disintegrative
hypersensitive
immunoreactive
inappreciative
interoperative
interpretative
multiplicative
nonacquisitive
noncommutative
noncompetitive
nonconsecutive
nonconsumptive
noncooperative
nondescriptive
nondestructive
nondistinctive
noninteractive
nonradioactive
nonrestrictive
nonretroactive
nonspeculative
overprotective
photoinductive
photooxidative
photoreceptive
photosensitive
proprioceptive
radiosensitive
reconstructive
redintegrative
redistributive
rehabilitative
representative
substantiative
supereffective
supersensitive
transformative
ultrasensitive
unappreciative
unconstructive
15-Letter Words
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26 found
)
anticompetitive
antispeculative
chemopreventive
electronegative
electropositive
excommunicative
heteronormative
incommunicative
intersubjective
intussusceptive
neoconservative
neuroprotective
nonconservative
nonconstructive
nonexploitative
nonquantitative
nonreproductive
overimaginative
phosphorylative
photoconductive
prognosticative
radioprotective
retroreflective
superconductive
uncommunicative
undemonstrative
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