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15-letter words that end in ive

  • all-wheel drive — a system used in motor vehicles in which all four (or more) wheels are permanently connected to the source of power, in such a way that each wheel is able to rotate at a different speed
  • alpha privative — (in Greek grammar) the letter alpha (or an- before vowels) used as a negative or privative prefix. It appears in English words derived from Greek, as in atheist, anaesthetic
  • 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.
  • anticompetitive — (in business) discouraging competition
  • antihypotensive — An antihypotensive is any drug that raises low blood pressure.
  • antiprogressive — opposed to or acting against progression in society
  • antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autodestructive — likely to cause one's own destruction
  • automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
  • bare infinitive — an infinitive verb form without to, used with certain auxiliary verbs , as in I must go. All I did was ask. We might win.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chief executive — the person with overall responsibility for the efficient running of a company, organization, etc
  • circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
  • cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
  • differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
  • neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
  • non-consecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
  • non-contrastive — not contrastive.
  • non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.

On this page, we collect all 15-letter words ending in IVE. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 15-letter word that ends in IVE to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.

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