12-letter words that end in tive
- 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
- exaggerative — Marked by exaggeration.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exploitative — In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- 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
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introvertive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malternative — An alcoholic beverage that contains some malt alcohol, and may contain other types of alcohol, and that is an alternative to beer.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.