Words containing ive
4 letter words containing ive
- dive — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- hive — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- ives — Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) [burl ik-uh l] /bɜrl ˈɪk əl/ (Show IPA), 1909–1995, U.S. actor and folk singer.
5 letter words containing ive
- alive — If people or animals are alive, they are not dead.
- chive — a small Eurasian purple-flowered alliaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking to flavour soups, stews, etc
- civet — any catlike viverrine mammal of the genus Viverra and related genera, of Africa and S Asia, typically having blotched or spotted fur and secreting a powerfully smelling fluid from anal glands
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
6 letter words containing ive
- active — Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
- argive — (in Homer, Virgil, etc) of or relating to the Greeks besieging Troy, esp those from Argos
- arrive — When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
- belive — speedily
- blivet — something annoying, ridiculous, or useless.
7 letter words containing ive
8 letter words containing ive
- abessive — the grammatical case indicating absence
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- actively — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
9 letter words containing ive
- abjective — tending to degrade, humiliate, or demoralize: the abjective influences of his early life.
- abusively — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- acceptive — ready or willing to accept
- accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
10 letter words containing ive
- abdicative — to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner: The aging founder of the firm decided to abdicate.
- abrasively — in an abrupt manner
- absolutive — the grammatical case in an ergative language that is used for the direct object of a transitive verb and the subject of an intransitive verb
- absorptive — able or tending to absorb; absorbent.
- abstersive — a cleansing substance
11 letter words containing ive
- abstractive — that abstracts or can abstract
- abusiveness — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
- adjectively — Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns (this magazine; those questions), and terms that impose limits (each person; no mercy) can also function adjectivally, as can some nouns that are found chiefly in fixed phrases where they immediately precede the noun they modify, as bottle in bottle cap and bus in bus station. Synonyms: modifier, qualifier, identifier, describer, describing word.
- adumbrative — foreshadowing; sketchy; faintly indicative.
12 letter words containing ive
- abirritative — to make less irritable; soothe.
- abrasiveness — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
- accelerative — of, causing, or increasing acceleration
- accumulative — If something is accumulative, it becomes greater in amount, number, or intensity over a period of time.
- adaptiveness — in a state that has a capacity for adaptation
13 letter words containing ive
- accommodative — tending to accommodate; adaptive.
- active-matrix — of or relating to a high-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with high contrast, the most common type of flat-panel display.
- addictiveness — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- aerodigestive — of or relating to the organs and tissues of the respiratory tract and the upper part of the digestive tract
- affirmatively — affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
14 letter words containing ive
- accumulatively — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- administrative — Administrative work involves organizing and supervising an organization or institution.
- aggressiveness — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- anal-retentive — having an anal character.
- anti-infective — of or relating to a substance used in the treatment of an infection.
15 letter words containing ive
- acquisitiveness — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- anticommutative — (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the negative of the second operating on the first, as ab = −ba.
- argumentatively — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
- authoritatively — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
16 letter words containing ive
- administratively — pertaining to administration; executive: administrative ability.
- anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
- apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
17 letter words containing ive
- anti-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- antiproliferative — of or relating to a substance used to prevent or retard the spread of cells, especially malignant cells, into surrounding tissues.
- argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
- authoritativeness — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
18 letter words containing ive
- biodiversification — the process by which the diversity of plants or animals develops or is increased within a particular region or group of organisms.
21 letter words containing ive
- cooperative-apartment — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- hypothetico-deductive — pertaining to or governed by the supposed method of scientific progress whereby a general hypothesis is tested by deducing predictions that may be experimentally tested. When such a prediction is falsified the theory is rejected and a new hypothesis is required
27 letter words containing ive
- introgressive-hybridization — the introduction of genes from one species into the gene pool of another species, occurring when matings between the two produce fertile hybrids.
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