10-letter words that end in ive
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- disc drive — disc
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- dismissive — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissective — having the ability to dissect
- dissentive — (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- distensive — Distending, or capable of being distended.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- enervative — Causing enervation.
- entitative — Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances, that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.
- entreative — pleading
- estimative — Of or pertaining to an estimate or to estimation.
- evacuative — That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.
- evaluative — Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- excitative — Causing excitation.
- execrative — A word used for cursing; an oath.
- exhaustive — Examining, including, or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.
- exhibitive — Serving for exhibition; representative.
- expeditive — (obsolete) Performing with speed.
- exploitive — Exploitative: taking advantage of someone.
- expositive — That explains; expository.
- expressive — Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
- extinctive — Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.
- extractive — Of or involving extraction, especially the extensive extraction of natural resources without provision for their renewal.
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- federative — pertaining to or of the nature of a federation.
- fermentive — tending to cause fermentation
- fifty-five — a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
- figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- generative — capable of producing or creating.
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- hard drive — hard disk drive
- hesitative — characterized by hesitation; hesitating.
- hyperdrive — (in science fiction) a propulsion system for travel in hyperspace.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- impeditive — Causing hindrance; impeding.
- imperative — imperative language
- impressive — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.