11-letter words containing ative
- insinuative — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
- inspirative — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- instigative — Tending to instigate.
- integrative — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- intensative — (archaic) Adding intensity; intensifying.
- irradiative — That irradiates.
- iteratively — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- mensurative — adapted for or concerned with measuring.
- miscreative — creating evil
- narratively — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- native-born — born in the place or country indicated: a native-born Australian.
- nominatives — Plural form of nominative.
- noncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- nonnegative — (of a real number) greater than or equal to zero.
- nonrelative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- normatively — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- nuncupative — (especially of a will) oral; not written.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- observative — Observant; watchful.
- operatively — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- orientative — the act or process of orienting.
- originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- oxidatively — by an oxidative process
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preparative — preparatory.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- relative to — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
- reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
- repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.