13-letter words containing ive
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
- rejective art — minimal art.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- reverberative — reverberating or tending to reverberate
- river bugging — the activity or sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers on a small inflatable single-seat craft, a river bug, that resembles an armchair
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- river estuary — a river mouth
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- river traffic — the boats that sail on a river
- russian olive — oleaster.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- sensitiveness — the state or quality of being sensitive.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- significative — serving to signify.
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- substantively — a noun.
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- tax incentive — measure to encourage activity