9-letter words that end in ve
- collative — involving collation
- collisive — (obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
- collusive — Collusive behaviour involves secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- commotive — violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance: What's all the commotion in the hallway?
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- connexive — connective
- contusive — to injure (tissue), especially without breaking the skin; bruise.
- cookstove — a stove for cooking
- corrasive — Obsolete form of corrosive.
- corrosive — A corrosive substance is able to destroy solid materials by a chemical reaction.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- dataglove — a glove connected to a computer and equipped with sensors allowing the actual movements of a person's hand to manipulate virtual objects
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defensive — You use defensive to describe things that are intended to protect someone or something.
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- depictive — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depletive — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- detective — A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.
- detersive — having cleansing power
- deviative — tending to deviate or cause to deviate
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- digestive — serving for or pertaining to digestion; having the function of digesting food: the digestive tract.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- disproove — Obsolete form of disprove.
- divertive — diverting; amusing.
- divulsive — Tending to tear or pull apart.
- dormitive — having the effect of inducing sleep
- drawshave — drawknife.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- edge wave — a wave aligned at right angles to the shoreline.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- effective — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- egressive — Going or directed outward.
- emanative — That emanates, or causes emanation.
- embracive — (archaic) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- endorsive — pertaining to endorsement
- enhancive — Tending to enhance something.
- equivalve — equipped with identical valves (as with the bivalve mollusc)
- evocative — Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
- evolutive — Of, pertaining to, or advocating evolution or development.