9-letter words that end in ve
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- quotative — (linguistics) Form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- ram drive — RAM disk
- real live — You use real live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
- reapprove — to approve (something) again
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- recursive — recursion
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinvolve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- remissive — characterized by remission or decrease.
- reobserve — to observe again
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- retortive — having or containing a retort
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- revengive — vengeful, seeking revenge
- revertive — of or related to reverting
- revulsive — tending to alter the distribution of blood by revulsion.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- secretive — secretory.
- seductive — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
- semibreve — a note half the length of a breve; whole note.
- sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sharesave — (in Britain) a system by which employees can invest, risk-free, in their company's shares
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- should've — Should've is the usual spoken form of 'should have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- skin-dive — to engage in skin diving.
- slow wave — delta wave.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subsecive — left over or spare
- suffusive — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
- summative — additive.
- superhive — super (def 3).