11-letter words containing ative
- degradative — causing degradation
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- denigrative — tending to denigrate
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- derivatives — of or relating to financial derivatives
- desiccative — Causing to desiccate, dry.
- designative — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- eliminative — Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- emulatively — So as to emulate.
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evaporative — Relating to or involving evaporation.
- evocatively — In an evocative manner.
- exclamative — a word or sentence that denotes an exclamation
- exemplative — Serving as or providing a typical example.
- exfoliative — That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation.
- exhortative — (comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
- exonerative — Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
- expatiative — tending to spread; expansive
- expectative — Of or pertaining to an expectation.
- explanative — That serves to explain; explanatory.
- explicative — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- explorative — Exploratory.
- exsiccative — Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
- extenuative — a thing which lessens the seriousness (of a crime or wrongdoing)
- extirpative — Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
- facultative — conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
- gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- imitatively — In an imitative manner.
- imperatives — Plural form of imperative.
- implicative — tending to implicate or imply; characterized by or involving implication.
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- infirmative — (obsolete) Tending to weaken, annul, or make void.
- informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- initiatives — Plural form of initiative.
- inoculative — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inoperative — not operative; not in operation.