8-letter words that end in ive
- abessive — the grammatical case indicating absence
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- abrasive — Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude.
- accusive — Accusative.
- adaptive — Adaptive means having the ability or tendency to adapt to different situations.
- additive — An additive is a substance which is added in small amounts to foods or other things in order to improve them or to make them last longer.
- adessive — a grammatical case in Finno-Ugric languages indicating place
- adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
- adoptive — Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.
- agentive — (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
- allative — the grammatical case, or a word used in the case, that in certain languages denotes movement towards something
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- coactive — acting together.
- coderive — to derive jointly
- coercive — Coercive measures are intended to force people to do something that they do not want to do.
- cohesive — Something that is cohesive consists of parts that fit together well and form a united whole.
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- cooptive — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- crescive — increasing; growing
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- deletive — intended to destroy or remove
- delusive — tending to delude; misleading
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- descrive — to describe
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilutive — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- divisive — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- emissive — Having the power to radiate something, especially light, heat, or radiation.
- emulsive — That yields an emulsion (or a milk-like substance).
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
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