11-letter words that end in ve
- disjunctive — serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- dispositive — involving or affecting disposition or settlement: a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- disquietive — having a disquieting effect or character
- dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- distinctive — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- ditto drive — (hardware, storage) The Ditto tape drives range in capacity from 120 megabytes to 1.6 gigabytes (data compression can roughly double these figures). The newer devices are designed for special tapes, though they will read standard tape types. The largest of tape stores up 3.2 GB. Using an enhanced floppy drive card the transfer rate approaches the claimed 19 MB/minute. External parallel port versions are also available.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- eliminative — Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evaporative — Relating to or involving evaporation.
- exclamative — a word or sentence that denotes an exclamation
- exemplative — Serving as or providing a typical example.
- exfoliative — That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation.
- exhortative — (comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
- exonerative — Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
- expatiative — tending to spread; expansive
- expectative — Of or pertaining to an expectation.
- explanative — That serves to explain; explanatory.
- explicative — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- explorative — Exploratory.
- exquisitive — (obsolete) Eager to discover or learn; curious.
- exsiccative — Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
- extenuative — a thing which lessens the seriousness (of a crime or wrongdoing)
- extirpative — Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
- facultative — conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flexecutive — an executive to whom the employer allows flexibility about times and locations of working
- float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
- fluid drive — a power coupling for permitting a smooth start in any gear, consisting of two vaned rotors in a sealed casing filled with oil, such that one rotor, driven by the engine, moves the oil to drive the other rotor, which in turn drives the transmission.
- front-drive — (of an automotive vehicle) having front-wheel drive.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- ftp archive — archive site
- gauze weave — leno (def 1).
- germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
- globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
- gravitative — of or relating to gravitation.