10-letter words that end in ive
- cogitative — capable of thinking
- cohibitive — restrictive
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- commissive — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- completive — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- concessive — implying or involving concession; tending to concede
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concoctive — Of or pertaining to digestion; digestive.
- concretive — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- concussive — Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- congestive — A congestive disease is a medical condition where a part of the body becomes blocked.
- connective — A connective is the same as a conjunction.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- consultive — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contentive — a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor (def 2).
- contortive — characterized by, tending toward, or causing contortions or twisting: contortive movements; contortive pain; contortive alleyways.
- convective — physics: transferring heat, etc.
- convictive — able or serving to convince or convict
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- corelative — correlative
- corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- dedicative — of or relating to dedication; serving as a dedication.
- definitive — Something that is definitive provides a firm conclusion that cannot be questioned.
- deflective — causing deflection.
- defunctive — of or relating to the dead; funereal.
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- denotative — able to denote; designative
- depositive — having the capacity or tendency to deposit
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- detonative — (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.