12-letter words that end in ive
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- denominative — giving or constituting a name; naming
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- effervescive — Tending to produce effervescence.
- exaggerative — Marked by exaggeration.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exploitative — In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- facilitative — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- habilitative — to clothe or dress.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-negative — not infected with the HIV virus
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imperceptive — not perceptive; lacking perception.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- inexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- insusceptive — insusceptible