16-letter words that end in ve
- anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
- archconservative — consistently holding extremely conservative views: publisher of the city's archconservative newspaper.
- behind the curve — behind the times; behind schedule
- branchial groove — one of a series of rudimentary depressions on the surface of the embryo between adjacent branchial arches, homologous to the branchial clefts of gill-breathing ancestral forms.
- cannonball serve — (in tennis) a very fast low serve
- case insensitive — case sensitivity
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
- counterintuitive — (of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense
- counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
- free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- interpenetrative — (mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space).
- junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- lose one's nerve — to become timid, esp failing to perform some audacious act
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- non-interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- noncommunicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
- on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
- one/a false move — If you say that one false move will cause a disaster, you mean that you or someone else must not make any mistakes because the situation is so difficult or dangerous.
- over-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- over-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
- peace initiative — the first or opening move in negotiating an end to conflict or negotiating peace
- philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
- proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
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