Countable Nouns That End in VE
Explore 546 verified English countable nouns ending with the suffix -VE, including Have, Leave, Move, Love, Drive, Serve and Positive. Useful for ESL grammar practice, determiner usage, and plural spelling and rhyming patterns, browse these count nouns with singular and plural forms below or review singular and plural count rules in our noun grammar guide.
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Starts with A24 words
active
alternative
archive
adjective
affirmative
additive
adhesive
abrasive
alcove
ave
agave
aftershave
autosave
antihypertensive
accusative
aversive
airwave
autoclave
attributive
ablative
appositive
architrave
anticorrosive
applicative
Starts with B11 words
brave
beehive
brainwave
bivalve
breve
basketweave
bondslave
burgrave
bioadhesive
benefactive
brieve
Starts with C24 words
creative
conservative
curve
comprehensive
cave
collaborative
collective
cooperative
captive
comparative
conserve
contraceptive
corrective
cove
contemplative
commemorative
concave
clove
connective
corrosive
cursive
counteroffensive
chive
conclave
Starts with D24 words
drive
drove
detective
dive
defensive
dove
dissolve
definitive
derivative
directive
defective
digestive
depressive
delve
demonstrative
diminutive
declarative
distributive
dissociative
disincentive
dative
determinative
disjunctive
durative
Starts with E24 words
effective
executive
exclusive
eve
elective
expletive
enclave
extractive
endive
eave
eruptive
extrusive
exclave
ergative
exclamative
eleve
elative
equative
expulsive
exfoliative
expurgative
electrosensitive
eyesalve
ejective
Starts with F13 words
five
fugitive
formative
foxglove
fixative
fricative
fauve
factitive
factive
frequentative
flexecutive
folkweave
ferroinclave
Starts with G10 words
grave
glove
grove
grieve
groove
genitive
glaive
greave
gyve
gerundive
Starts with H11 words
have
hive
heave
heatwave
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hypotensive
helve
hortative
hyperconservative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I24 words
initiative
interactive
incentive
intensive
imperative
indicative
iterative
interrogative
infinitive
imitative
intransitive
invective
immunosuppressive
implosive
injunctive
imperfective
inceptive
ingressive
incurve
inchoative
illative
internegative
interfluve
inessive
Starts with J
2 words jive
jussive
Starts with K4 words
knave
kidglove
khedive
keeve
Starts with L16 words
leave
love
locomotive
laxative
ladylove
longwave
lightwave
locative
lenitive
landgrave
laudative
lipsalve
limitative
laticlave
leaflove
lambitive
Starts with M22 words
move
motive
microwave
manipulative
mangrove
mauve
missive
mojave
multiplicative
metanarrative
mohave
margrave
meliorative
microgroove
microdrive
mediopassive
multivalve
maturative
mismove
misdrive
modificative
mundificative
Starts with N23 words
negative
native
narrative
nerve
nominative
nonnative
nosedive
nave
neoconservative
nutritive
nonexecutive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
nonnarrative
noncorrosive
neve
nonderivative
nonexplosive
noneffective
nieve
numerative
necessitative
Starts with O15 words
objective
offensive
olive
obsessive
operative
octave
overdrive
ogive
optative
occlusive
outdrive
outcurve
oversleeve
obligative
oppilative
Starts with P24 words
positive
perspective
progressive
preserve
passive
primitive
provocative
preventive
possessive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
psychoactive
palliative
peeve
preparative
purgative
pareve
perve
plosive
perfective
predicative
partitive
Starts with Q5 words
quotative
quietive
qualificative
quacksalve
quadriderivative
Starts with R24 words
remove
relative
representative
reserve
resolve
retrieve
rave
restrictive
retrospective
reprieve
recessive
restorative
reflexive
rove
recurve
recitative
reeve
releve
rive
reiterative
redrive
ringdove
reduplicative
resumptive
Starts with S24 words
save
serve
sensitive
solve
slave
subjective
stove
shave
sleeve
substantive
shove
submissive
swerve
superlative
sedative
subversive
stave
sieve
salve
shockwave
shortwave
suppressive
subjunctive
skydive
Starts with T14 words
twelve
trove
transitive
turtledove
truelove
translative
terminative
trave
theave
totitive
thrave
tidewave
trivalve
trunksleeve
Starts with U8 words
ultraconservative
univalve
upcurve
underdrive
undersleeve
undergrove
updive
urinative
Starts with V8 words
valve
votive
vocative
volitive
vomitive
varve
vegetive
voluntative
Starts with W10 words
wave
weave
woodstove
wayleave
waldgrave
wildgrave
wirewove
wharve
woodreeve
waterdrive
Starts with Z
1 words zouave