9-letter words that end in ive
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defensive — You use defensive to describe things that are intended to protect someone or something.
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- depictive — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depletive — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- detective — A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.
- detersive — having cleansing power
- deviative — tending to deviate or cause to deviate
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- digestive — serving for or pertaining to digestion; having the function of digesting food: the digestive tract.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- divertive — diverting; amusing.
- divulsive — Tending to tear or pull apart.
- dormitive — having the effect of inducing sleep
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- effective — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- egressive — Going or directed outward.
- emanative — That emanates, or causes emanation.
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- endorsive — pertaining to endorsement
- enhancive — Tending to enhance something.
- evocative — Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
- evolutive — Of, pertaining to, or advocating evolution or development.
- exceptive — Exceptional, having an exception.
- excessive — More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
- exclusive — An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.
- excretive — Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
- excursive — Of the nature of an excursion; ranging widely; digressive.
- executive — Having the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect.
- exemptive — tending to bring about exemption; providing exemption, esp in law
- expansive — Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive or wide-ranging.
- expective — Expectative.
- expencive — Archaic form of expensive.
- expensive — Costing a lot of money.
- expiative — That serves to expiate.
- expletive — An oath or swear word.
- explosive — Able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart, as when a bomb explodes.
- expulsive — Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
- extensive — Covering or affecting a large area.
- extorsive — acting or tending to extort
- extortive — Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.attention improve this ef if possible.
- extrusive — Relating to or denoting rock that has been extruded at the earth’s surface as lava or other volcanic deposits.
- exudative — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- forgetive — inventive; creative.