13-letter words containing ativ
- correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
- corroborative — Corroborative evidence or information supports an idea, account, or argument.
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- deteriorative — tending to deteriorate
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- explanatively — in an explanative manner
- explicatively — in an explicative or explanatory manner
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- imaginatively — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- imitativeness — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- internegative — a color negative of a color transparency, made for purposes of duplication.
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interrogative — of, relating to, or conveying a question.
- investigative — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- manifestative — manifesting; showing clearly or conclusively.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- metanarrative — A narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- myeloablative — Of, pertaining to, or causing myeloablation.
- native states — the former 562 semi-independent states of India, ruled by Indians but subject to varying degrees of British authority: merged with provinces by 1948; largest states were Hyderabad, Gwalior, Baroda, Mysore, Cochin, Jammu and Kashmir, Travancore, Sikkim, and Indore
- native tongue — first language
- nativity play — A nativity play is a play about the birth of Jesus, usually one performed by children at Christmas time.
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- negative flag — the letter N in the International Code of Signals, signifying “no” when flown by itself: a square flag having four rows of alternate blue and white squares.
- negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- negative sign — bad omen
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.