8-letter words containing iv
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- emissive — Having the power to radiate something, especially light, heat, or radiation.
- emulsive — That yields an emulsion (or a milk-like substance).
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- enlivens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enliven.
- equative — (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- equivoke — Alternative form of equivoque.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- eric xiv — 1533–77, king of Sweden (1560–68). His attempts to dominate the Baltic led to war with Denmark (1563–70); deposed and imprisoned
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- estivate — (of an animal, particularly an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
- evincive — Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
- excisive — Relating to, or causing excision.
- excusive — tending to excuse; excusing
- exertive — Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
- exessive — (grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
- felix iv — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
- festival — a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances: the festival of Christmas; a Roman festival.
- fivefold — five times as great or as much.
- fivepins — a bowling game using five pins, played esp in Canada
- fivesome — A group of five persons or things.
- fixative — serving to fix; making fixed or permanent.
- flivvers — Plural form of flivver.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- foregive — Lb transitive To give ahead of time; give in advance.
- forgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgiver — A person who forgives.
- forgives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forgive.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- fructive — fruitful
- fruitive — able to enjoy or to produce enjoyment.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- galivant — Alt form gallivant.
- gallivat — (nautical) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
- genetive — Alternative spelling of genitive.
- genitive — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- gingivae — gum2 (def 1).
- gingival — of or relating to the gums.
- give ear — to give attention, esp. favorable attention; listen; heed
- give off — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give out — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- giveable — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- given to — past participle of give.
- givenchy — Hubert de [y-ber duh] /üˈbɛr də/ (Show IPA), born 1927, French fashion designer.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- gulliver — (slang) one's head.