11-letter words that end in ve
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- overachieve — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- posttussive — of or relating to a cough.
- pre-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- preconceive — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- predicative — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- preparative — preparatory.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preteritive — (of verbs) limited to past tenses.
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- propagative — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protractive — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- provocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- queen olive — any large, meaty olive suitable for pickling or processing.
- radioactive — of, pertaining to, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- rebarbative — causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- reiterative — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- replicative — characterized by or capable of replication, especially of an experiment.
- reprobative — reprobating; expressing reprobation.
- repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- restitutive — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- retaliative — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retroactive — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.