9-letter words that end in ve
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- incendive — Able to ignite, or cause ignition.
- incensive — Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory.
- incentive — something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
- inceptive — beginning; initial.
- inclusive — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- incursive — making incursions.
- indictive — Proclaimed; declared; public.
- inductive — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- infective — infectious.
- infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- ingestive — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- injective — (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.
- insertive — Of or relating to insertion in sexual acts.
- insultive — (rare,non-standard) Insulting.
- intensive — of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.
- intentive — Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
- interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intuitive — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- inventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- inversive — noting, pertaining to, or characterized by inversion.
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- key drive — a very small, portable storage device that plugs into a computer and facilitates moving data between machines
- kid glove — a glove made of kid leather.
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- let drive — to hit or aim
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lip salve — an ointment which comes in a stick or small tub and which is applied to the lips to soothe dryness, chapping, etc
- long wave — Electricity. an electromagnetic wave over 60 meters in length.
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- m o drive — magneto-optical disk
- make love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- mediative — mediating; mediatory.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- migrative — Of, pertaining to, or causing migration.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- must-have — A must-have is something modern that many people want to have.
- narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.