9-letter words that end in ve
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- the above — something that is above or previously mentioned
- traditive — traditional.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unbelieve — to disbelieve or distrust something
- undeceive — to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.
- undeserve — to fail to deserve
- unemotive — characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind.
- unevasive — tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion: an evasive answer.
- unreserve — absence of reserve; frankness; candor.
- usb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- variative — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- vibrative — vibrating
- violative — involving violation.
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- war grave — a grave of a person killed in battle; a ship that was sunk in battle with troops aboard
- wet shave — a shave in which lather and a razor are used, as opposed to an electric shaver
- wire-wove — made of woven wire.
- woodreeve — a steward responsible for a wood
- woodstove — A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so.
- writative — inclined to write a lot
- yestereve — (archaic) yesterday evening.
- zip drive — (hardware, storage) A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable hard disks storig 100 to 750 megabytes. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. Software is included to help with file organisation. The internal SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate. The Zip drive was awarded Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996. It was superceded by the Jaz drive which takes one gigbyte disks.