9-letter words that end in ive
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ram drive — RAM disk
- real live — You use real live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recursive — recursion
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- remissive — characterized by remission or decrease.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- retortive — having or containing a retort
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revengive — vengeful, seeking revenge
- revertive — of or related to reverting
- revulsive — tending to alter the distribution of blood by revulsion.
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- secretive — secretory.
- seductive — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- skin-dive — to engage in skin diving.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- subsecive — left over or spare
- suffusive — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
- summative — additive.
- superhive — super (def 3).
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- traditive — traditional.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- undeceive — to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.
- unemotive — characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind.
- unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
- usb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- variative — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- vibrative — vibrating
- violative — involving violation.
- writative — inclined to write a lot
- zip drive — (hardware, storage) A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable hard disks storig 100 to 750 megabytes. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. Software is included to help with file organisation. The internal SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate. The Zip drive was awarded Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996. It was superceded by the Jaz drive which takes one gigbyte disks.