Concrete Nouns That End in VE
Explore 348 verified English concrete nouns ending with the suffix -VE, including Have, Love, Drive, Serve, Positive, Active and Creative. Useful for descriptive storytelling, sensory writing, and grammar lessons and rhyming patterns, browse these physical naming words for tangible objects you can see or touch below or compare physical and abstract noun usage in our noun grammar guide.
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Starts with A24 words
active
archive
additive
adhesive
abrasive
alcove
agave
aftershave
antihypertensive
airwave
autoclave
architrave
anticorrosive
antitussive
antiresorptive
antisubversive
alterative
adventive
anticonvulsive
antiprogressive
anticonservative
alleviative
affricative
antiinfective
Starts with B9 words
brave
beehive
bivalve
breve
basketweave
bondslave
burgrave
bioadhesive
brieve
Starts with C24 words
creative
conservative
curve
comprehensive
cave
collective
cooperative
captive
conserve
contraceptive
corrective
cove
contemplative
commemorative
concave
clove
connective
corrosive
cursive
chive
conclave
curative
consumptive
clave
Starts with D24 words
drive
drove
detective
dive
dove
definitive
derivative
defective
digestive
depressive
delve
dissociative
determinative
donative
dormitive
diapositive
drawshave
desiccative
dataglove
decongestive
detersive
depurative
depletive
divulsive
Starts with E24 words
effective
executive
exclusive
enclave
extractive
endive
eave
eruptive
extrusive
exclave
eleve
expulsive
exfoliative
expurgative
electrosensitive
eyesalve
ejective
egressive
espave
evacuative
epivalve
etuve
exsiccative
expectorative
Starts with F9 words
five
fugitive
foxglove
fixative
fricative
fauve
flexecutive
folkweave
ferroinclave
Starts with G8 words
grave
glove
grove
grieve
groove
glaive
greave
gyve
Starts with H7 words
have
hive
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hypotensive
helve
hyperconservative
Starts with I8 words
interactive
immunosuppressive
implosive
ingressive
incurve
internegative
interfluve
incrassative
Starts with K4 words
knave
kidglove
khedive
keeve
Starts with L13 words
love
locomotive
laxative
ladylove
longwave
lightwave
lenitive
landgrave
lipsalve
limitative
laticlave
leaflove
lambitive
Starts with M13 words
microwave
manipulative
mangrove
mauve
missive
mojave
mohave
margrave
microgroove
microdrive
multivalve
maturative
mundificative
Starts with N16 words
negative
native
nerve
nonnative
nave
neoconservative
nutritive
nonexecutive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
noncorrosive
neve
nonexplosive
noneffective
nieve
Starts with O11 words
objective
olive
obsessive
operative
overdrive
ogive
occlusive
outdrive
outcurve
oversleeve
oppilative
Starts with P24 words
positive
progressive
preserve
primitive
provocative
preventive
preservative
psychoactive
palliative
purgative
pareve
perve
plosive
pendentive
photonegative
portative
portreeve
palstave
preteritive
pseudoconservative
palsgrave
photopositive
picowave
patercove
Starts with Q3 words
quietive
quacksalve
quadriderivative
Starts with R21 words
relative
representative
reserve
rave
recessive
restorative
rove
recurve
recitative
reeve
releve
rive
redrive
ringdove
reduplicative
refrigerative
revulsive
reservative
refective
relaxative
resinoextractive
Starts with S24 words
serve
sensitive
slave
stove
shave
sleeve
shove
submissive
sedative
subversive
stave
sieve
salve
shockwave
shortwave
suppressive
skive
soundwave
shirtsleeve
seropositive
stimulative
soave
slieve
sheave
Starts with T9 words
trove
turtledove
truelove
trave
theave
thrave
tidewave
trivalve
trunksleeve
Starts with U8 words
ultraconservative
univalve
upcurve
underdrive
undersleeve
undergrove
updive
urinative
Starts with V5 words
valve
votive
vomitive
varve
vegetive
Starts with W8 words
wave
weave
woodstove
waldgrave
wildgrave
wirewove
wharve
woodreeve
Starts with Y
1 words yestereve
Starts with Z
1 words zouave