9-letter words that end in ve
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- nonnative — of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
- normative — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- nose dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- nose-dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- nutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- oak grove — a small group or orchard of oak trees
- 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.
- obsessive — being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
- obtrusive — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obviative — Describing such a marker.
- occlusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- offencive — Obsolete form of offensive.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- oil stove — a heating device that burns oil (typically either paraffin or fuel oil)
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- ostensive — clearly or manifestly demonstrative.
- outstrive — to strive harder than
- outthieve — to surpass in stealing
- overdrive — to push or carry to excess; overwork.
- overdrove — Simple past form of overdrive.
- oxidative — the process or result of oxidizing.
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- parasceve — preparation
- partitive — serving to divide into parts.
- patercove — a fraudulent priest
- pcv valve — a valve used to control and direct the flow of gases during positive crankcase ventilation.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pet peeve — a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear: This train service is one of my pet peeves.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- placative — placatory.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- portreeve — the reeve of a port
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- prelusive — introductory.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.