11-letter words that end in ive
- originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- posttussive — of or relating to a cough.
- pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- preconceive — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- preparative — preparatory.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- 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.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- queen olive — any large, meaty olive suitable for pickling or processing.
- radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
- reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
- repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- restitutive — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- sales drive — a period of events or activities aimed to promote sales of a particular product or services
- segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.