Words ending in IVE

There are 936 words ending in IVE in our word list. 115 of them are common everyday words, such as GIVE, LIVE, DRIVE and FIVE. They range from 4 to 15 letters, and 11-letter words are the biggest group, with 170.

Words: 936
Common words: 115
Longest: ANTICOMPETITIVE; 15 letters
Top score: EXCOMMUNICATIVE; 33 points

-IVE means tending to, as in ACTIVE and CREATIVE.

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4-letter words (9)

give
live
five
dive
hive
jive
vive
rive
wive

5-letter words (11)

drive
alive
olive
naive
waive
chive
ogive
shive
skive
reive
swive

6-letter words (20)

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

7-letter words (43)

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

8-letter words (87)

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

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9-letter words (136)

effective
exclusive
executive
expensive
cognitive
defensive
detective
excessive
extensive
intensive
narrative
objective
offensive
sensitive
addictive
defective
directive
explosive
incentive
inclusive
intuitive
lucrative
operative
primitive
selective
adjective
affective
assertive
attentive
conducive
corrosive
deceptive
digestive
evocative
expansive
formative
impulsive
intrusive
inventive
normative
obsessive
overdrive
oxidative
pervasive
proactive
receptive
repulsive
secretive
seductive
tentative
causative
combative
deductive
expletive
inductive
iterative
radiative
recessive
reclusive
recursive
reductive
reflexive
resistive
talkative
bioactive
educative
fricative
imitative
impassive
infective
invective
nutritive

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10-letter words (163)

attractive
aggressive
collective
impressive
initiative
innovative
productive
protective
respective
supportive
automotive
cumulative
decorative
definitive
derivative
imperative
indicative
locomotive
preventive
reflective
repetitive
responsive
subjective
successive
compulsive
conclusive
conductive
connective
corrective
depressive
diminutive
dismissive
disruptive
exhaustive
expressive
figurative
oppressive
palliative
persuasive
possessive
predictive
repressive
submissive
subversive
suggestive
accusative
capacitive
congestive
convective
discursive
extractive
generative
indecisive
infinitive
meditative
nominative
overactive
pejorative
perceptive
percussive
permissive
preemptive
projective
redemptive
refractive
regressive
transitive
ulcerative
vegetative
vindictive
adjunctive
concussive

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11-letter words (170)

alternative
competitive
perspective
consecutive
distinctive
interactive
legislative
progressive
affirmative
comparative
cooperative
descriptive
destructive
ineffective
inexpensive
informative
prospective
radioactive
restrictive
speculative
imaginative
insensitive
instinctive
prerogative
provocative
qualitative
substantive
associative
commutative
compressive
declarative
hyperactive
inoffensive
inquisitive
instructive
integrative
obstructive
presumptive
prohibitive
restorative
retroactive
subjunctive
superlative
unobtrusive
acquisitive
consumptive
contrastive
correlative
duplicative
evaporative
facultative
hypotensive
inattentive
inoperative
maladaptive
noninvasive
nonnegative
penetrative
retributive
subtractive
suppressive
applicative
assortative
attributive
coextensive
conjunctive
connotative
corporative
disjunctive
dispositive
dissipative
enumerative

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12-letter words (125)

conservative
constructive
quantitative
reproductive
appreciative
apprehensive
consultative
degenerative
illustrative
inconclusive
interpretive
irrespective
manipulative
preventative
regenerative
unattractive
unproductive
constitutive
deliberative
dissociative
distributive
exploitative
performative
prescriptive
preservative
psychoactive
unimpressive
unresponsive
alliterative
disincentive
hypertensive
intransitive
preoperative
supermassive
accumulative
augmentative
constrictive
facilitative
fermentative
imperfective
inexpressive
nonexclusive
nonselective
precognitive
recuperative
remunerative
seronegative
seropositive
transmissive
unpersuasive
unreflective
vituperative
accelerative
adjudicative
ameliorative
apperceptive
assimilative
continuative
contributive
coordinative
desiderative
ditransitive
illuminative
infiltrative
interruptive
noncognitive
nondirective
nonexecutive
nonintrusive
nonoperative
normotensive
postpositive

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13-letter words (90)

comprehensive
collaborative
investigative
authoritative
commemorative
contraceptive
retrospective
argumentative
communicative
contemplative
demonstrative
introspective
postoperative
uncooperative
unimaginative
accommodative
determinative
interrogative
oversensitive
participative
proliferative
transgressive
uncompetitive
agglutinative
corroborative
nonresponsive
retrogressive
uninformative
acculturative
anticorrosive
appropriative
approximative
concentrative
counteractive
frequentative
interoceptive
nonaggressive
nonconductive
nonproductive
prefigurative
resuscitative
significative
unprogressive
agglomerative
antinarrative
commiserative
confederative
configurative
contaminative
corresponsive
deteriorative
exteroceptive
extrapolative
gesticulative
hyperreactive
inconsecutive
incorporative
indistinctive
interpolative
introgressive
justificative
nonabsorptive
nonautomotive
noncumulative
nonderivative
nondiscursive
nondispersive
nondisruptive
nonevaluative
nonexploitive
nonfigurative
nonpermissive

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14-letter words (56)

representative
administrative
transformative
multiplicative
overprotective
reconstructive
discriminative
hypersensitive
interpretative
noncommutative
nondestructive
photosensitive
redistributive
rehabilitative
unappreciative
deconstructive
immunoreactive
noncompetitive
proprioceptive
ultrasensitive
unconstructive
antiderivative
contrapositive
disintegrative
nonconsecutive
noncooperative
nonradioactive
nonrestrictive
overaggressive
radiosensitive
supersensitive
anticonvulsive
antireflective
antisubversive
chemoreceptive
conglomerative
cryoprotective
disaggregative
inappreciative
interoperative
nonacquisitive
nonconsumptive
nondescriptive
nondistinctive
noninteractive
nonprogressive
nonretroactive
nonspeculative
photoinductive
photooxidative
photoreceptive
redintegrative
substantiative
supereffective
superexpensive
ultraexclusive

15-letter words (26)

anticompetitive
neoconservative
electronegative
intersubjective
photoconductive
superconductive
uncommunicative
electropositive
nonconstructive
radioprotective
retroreflective
undemonstrative
antiprogressive
antispeculative
excommunicative
hyperaggressive
hyperresponsive
incommunicative
intussusceptive
nonconservative
nonexploitative
nonquantitative
nonreproductive
overimaginative
phosphorylative
prognosticative

Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words ending in IVE are there?

Our word list has 936 words ending in IVE. 115 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word ending in IVE?

The longest have 15 letters, for example ANTICOMPETITIVE, NEOCONSERVATIVE and ELECTRONEGATIVE.

Which word ending in IVE scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, EXCOMMUNICATIVE scores 33 points, the most of any word ending in IVE in our list.