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11-letter words that end in tive

  • non-emotive — characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind.
  • nonadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • nonadditive — not additive, not involving mathematical addition
  • noncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
  • nonelective — Not elective.
  • nonnegative — (of a real number) greater than or equal to zero.
  • nonpositive — (of a real number) less than or equal to zero.
  • nonpunitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • nonreactive — tending to react.
  • nonrelative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
  • nuncupative — (especially of a will) oral; not written.
  • objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
  • observative — Observant; watchful.
  • obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • orientative — the act or process of orienting.
  • originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.
  • oscillative — disposed to oscillation
  • penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
  • perforative — that perforates readily
  • persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
  • preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
  • predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
  • premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
  • preparative — preparatory.
  • prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
  • prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
  • presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
  • procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
  • prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
  • provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
  • qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
  • radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
  • rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
  • reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
  • replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
  • reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
  • repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • restitutive — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
  • restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
  • restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
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