9-letter words that end in ive
- abductive — (anatomy) Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement. (Mid 19th century.).
- abjective — tending to degrade, humiliate, or demoralize: the abjective influences of his early life.
- acceptive — ready or willing to accept
- accessive — Misspelling of excessive.
- accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- admissive — tending to admit.
- advective — relating to advection
- adventive — (of a species) introduced to a new area and not yet established there; exotic
- affective — relating to affects
- agitative — tending to stir or agitate
- animative — Tending to animate; causing animation.
- antessive — (grammar) Indicating the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
- aperitive — aperient.
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- ascensive — having the propensity to move in an upwards direction
- aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- assuasive — soothing; allaying
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- attritive — Causing attrition.
- attuitive — characterized by attuition
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- bijective — (of a function, relation, etc) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cognitive — Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- collative — involving collation
- collisive — (obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
- collusive — Collusive behaviour involves secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- commotive — violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance: What's all the commotion in the hallway?
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- connexive — connective
- contusive — to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corrosive — A corrosive substance is able to destroy solid materials by a chemical reaction.
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
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