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16-letter words that end in ive

  • anti-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.
  • antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
  • archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
  • case insensitive — case sensitivity
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • counterintuitive — (of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
  • first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
  • free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
  • hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • interpenetrative — (mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space).
  • junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
  • non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
  • non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • non-interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
  • non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • noncommunicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
  • over-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • over-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
  • peace initiative — the first or opening move in negotiating an end to conflict or negotiating peace
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
  • self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.

On this page, we collect all 16-letter words ending in IVE. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 16-letter word that ends in IVE to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.

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