11-letter words that end in tive
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- semi-active — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- substantive — a noun.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- suppositive — of the nature of or involving supposition; suppositional.
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- terremotive — related to an earthquake
- translative — of or relating to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another.
- unassertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- unattentive — characterized by or giving attention; observant: an attentive audience.
- uncombative — not combative or confrontational
- undefective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- underactive — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- uneffective — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- unintuitive — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- uninventive — not showing any inventive talent or ability
- unobjective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unreceptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- unretentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- unselective — not selective or characterized by indiscriminate selection
- unsensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- untalkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- ventilative — promoting or producing ventilation.
- vindicative — tending or serving to vindicate.
- voluntative — a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb