12-letter words that end in ive
- nonimitative — not tending to imitate, not involving imitation
- noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonintuitive — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- nonnarrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nonnormative — Not normative.
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonobjective — not objective.
- nonobsessive — Not obsessive.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonoffensive — Not offensive.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonsensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- post-tussive — of or relating to a cough.
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- postpositive — (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- preventative — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- regenerative — of, relating to, or characterized by regeneration.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion