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10-letter words containing iv

  • positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
  • positivist — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
  • positivity — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
  • possessive — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
  • power dive — a steep dive by an aircraft with its engines at high power
  • power-dive — a dive, especially a steep dive, by an aircraft in which the engine or engines are delivering thrust at or near full power.
  • preceptive — of the nature of or expressing a precept; mandatory.
  • preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • precursive — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
  • predictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • preemptive — of or relating to preemption.
  • prepensive — premeditated
  • presentive — notional (def 7).
  • pretensive — pretentious
  • preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
  • privatized — (of the production of goods or services) transferred from the public sector of an economy into private ownership and operation
  • privatizer — a person who promotes or facilitates privatization (of publicly owned businesses or services)
  • privileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
  • privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
  • privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
  • privy seal — (in Great Britain) the seal affixed to grants, documents, etc., that are to pass the great seal, and to documents of less importance that do not require the great seal.
  • pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • processive — advancing or going forward; progressive: the processive quality of language.
  • proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
  • productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • projective — of or relating to projection.
  • promissive — implying promise
  • propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
  • protective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
  • protestive — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
  • protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
  • punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
  • putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
  • quadrivial — having four ways or roads meeting in a point.
  • quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
  • quantitive — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • quiddative — Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
  • quiver leg — a round, tapered chair leg used in the Louis Quinze style and similar styles.
  • quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
  • quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
  • ranivorous — that eats frogs
  • reactivate — to render active again; revive.
  • reactively — tending to react.
  • reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
  • receivable — fit for acceptance; acceptable.
  • recidivate — to engage in recidivism; relapse.
  • recidivism — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
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