12-letter words that end in tive
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
- non-punitive — not involving or exerting punishment
- non-reactive — tending to react.
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- nonattentive — Not attentive.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- noncognitive — of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. : cognitive development; cognitive functioning.
- noncombative — Not combative.
- nondeceptive — not deceptive
- nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
- nondirective — Not directive.
- noneffective — not effective.
- nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
- nonimitative — not tending to imitate, not involving imitation
- noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nonintuitive — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- nonnarrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nonnormative — Not normative.
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonobjective — not objective.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonsensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- overreactive — tending to react.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- postpositive — (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- preventative — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education