8-letter words that end in ve
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- descrive — to describe
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilutive — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disserve — to be a disservice to; serve harmfully or injuriously.
- dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- divisive — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- emissive — Having the power to radiate something, especially light, heat, or radiation.
- emulsive — That yields an emulsion (or a milk-like substance).
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- engrieve — to cause grief to
- engroove — to put a groove into; to fit into a groove
- equative — (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- evincive — Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
- excisive — Relating to, or causing excision.
- excusive — tending to excuse; excusing
- exertive — Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
- exessive — (grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
- fixative — serving to fix; making fixed or permanent.
- for love — motivated by love
- foregive — Lb transitive To give ahead of time; give in advance.
- foxglove — any Eurasian plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially D. purpurea, having drooping, tubular, purple or white flowers on tall spikes, and leaves that are the source of digitalis in medicine.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- fructive — fruitful
- fruitive — able to enjoy or to produce enjoyment.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- genetive — Alternative spelling of genitive.
- genitive — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- heatwave — period of hot weather
- hoccleve — Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.
- ice cave — a cave containing ice that remains unmelted during all or most of the year.
- ideative — to form an idea, thought, or image of.
- illative — of, relating to, or expressing illation; inferential: an illative word such as “therefore.”.
- illusive — illusory.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- incisive — penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
- inessive — noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or within which.
- infusive — capable of infusing; inspiring.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into