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15-letter words that end in ve

  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • quasi-objective — 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.
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • retro-operative — affecting or operating on past events; retroactive
  • retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • self-expressive — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
  • self-initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
  • self-reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
  • sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
  • stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
  • store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • the affirmative — the side in a debate that supports the proposition
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
  • transverse wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, as a surface wave of water.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
  • trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
  • ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
  • unauthoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • uncommunicative — not inclined to talk or disclose information; reserved; taciturn.
  • uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
  • undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
  • unparticipative — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • up one's sleeve — secretly ready
  • western reserve — a tract of land in NE Ohio reserved by Connecticut (1786) when its rights to other land in the western U.S. were ceded to the federal government; relinquished in 1800.
  • without reserve — without reservations; fully; wholeheartedly
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