Nouns Ending in E and Containing VE

Browse 930 valid English nouns ending in E and containing VE, from Have, Give, Leave, Move, Love, Drive and Serve to rarer terms. Check definitions and spelling below, or visit our noun grammar guide to review pluralization and capitalization rules.

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Starts with A
24 words
above
active
average
alternative
adventure
avenue
archive
adjective
affirmative
additive
adhesive
abrasive
alcove
ave
agave
aftershave
autosave
antihypertensive
aave
accusative
aversive
airwave
autoclave
attributive
Starts with B
14 words
brave
beverage
beehive
brainwave
bivalve
belvedere
breve
basketweave
bondslave
burgrave
bioadhesive
benefactive
buvette
brieve
Starts with C
24 words
creative
conservative
coverage
curve
comprehensive
cave
convenience
collaborative
collective
cooperative
captive
comparative
converse
convergence
conserve
convertible
contraceptive
corrective
cove
contemplative
commemorative
concave
clove
conveyance
Starts with D
24 words
drive
drove
detective
dive
defensive
dove
dissolve
definitive
derivative
directive
defective
digestive
divergence
depressive
deliverance
delve
demonstrative
diminutive
deliverable
declarative
distributive
dissociative
disincentive
dative
Starts with E
24 words
everywhere
effective
executive
exclusive
eve
envelope
elective
expletive
enclave
extractive
endive
effervescence
eave
eveline
eventide
eruptive
extrusive
everglade
exclave
eventime
ergative
exclamative
eleve
elative
Starts with F
20 words
five
fugitive
formative
foxglove
fixative
fricative
fivepence
fivesome
fauve
fivescore
factitive
factive
frequentative
flexecutive
fervence
folkweave
fervescence
fauvette
foveole
ferroinclave
Starts with G
19 words
give
grave
glove
governance
grove
grieve
groove
gravestone
gravesite
graveside
genitive
governorate
glaive
greave
gyve
gerundive
governmentese
gouvernante
governante
Starts with H
15 words
have
hive
heave
heatwave
hypertensive
hyperdrive
humvee
harvesttime
hypotensive
helve
hortative
haversine
hyperconservative
hoove
hypersuperlative
Starts with I
24 words
initiative
interactive
incentive
intensive
inverse
imperative
indicative
inconvenience
iterative
interrogative
infinitive
invertebrate
irreverence
imitative
intransitive
invective
immunosuppressive
investiture
inadvertence
implosive
injunctive
imperfective
inceptive
invertase
Starts with J
6 words
juvenile
jive
jayvee
jussive
juvenescence
javelle
Starts with K
5 words
knave
kidglove
khedive
keeve
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
Starts with L
23 words
leave
love
leverage
locomotive
laxative
levee
lovebite
ladylove
longwave
lurve
lightwave
locative
lenitive
liveware
landgrave
laudative
lipsalve
liveyere
limitative
laticlave
leaflove
lambitive
lovevine
Starts with M
24 words
move
motive
microwave
manipulative
multiverse
metaverse
mangrove
misadventure
mauve
missive
mojave
multiplicative
metanarrative
misgovernance
mohave
margrave
meliorative
mourvedre
microgroove
microdrive
misventure
mediopassive
mauveine
merveilleuse
Starts with N
24 words
negative
native
narrative
nerve
naivete
nominative
nonnative
nosedive
nave
neoconservative
nutritive
nonexecutive
novelette
nouvelle
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
nonnarrative
noncorrosive
neve
nonderivative
navette
nonconvertible
nonexplosive
Starts with O
24 words
objective
offensive
olive
overtime
overdose
override
obsessive
operative
overture
octave
overuse
overwrite
overdrive
overconfidence
overestimate
overtone
overcharge
oversize
overshare
overabundance
overdependence
overexposure
overreliance
overbite
Starts with P
24 words
positive
perspective
progressive
preserve
passive
primitive
perseverance
provocative
preventive
possessive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
provenance
psychoactive
palliative
peeve
preparative
purgative
pareve
perve
plosive
perfective
Starts with Q
5 words
quotative
quietive
qualificative
quacksalve
quadriderivative
Starts with R
24 words
remove
relative
representative
revenue
reserve
resolve
reverse
revenge
retrieve
rave
restrictive
retrospective
reverence
reversible
riverside
reprieve
recessive
restorative
reflexive
reverie
rove
reveille
recurve
recitative
Starts with S
24 words
save
serve
sensitive
solve
slave
subjective
surveillance
stove
shave
sleeve
substantive
shove
submissive
severance
swerve
silverware
superlative
sedative
subversive
stave
sieve
salve
shockwave
shortwave
Starts with T
22 words
twelve
traverse
transverse
trove
transitive
transvestite
travelogue
turtledove
truelove
travertine
translative
trouvere
terminative
trave
theave
totitive
thrave
tidewave
trivalve
tirrivee
trunksleeve
televerite
Starts with U
11 words
universe
undeliverable
ultraconservative
univalve
unreserve
upcurve
underdrive
undersleeve
undergrove
updive
urinative
Starts with V
24 words
vehicle
vegetable
venue
venture
verse
valve
venice
vengeance
verge
veggie
vestige
vertebrate
vesicle
vehemence
ventricle
vestibule
verve
votive
verde
verbiage
vee
verisimilitude
vegemite
vaporwave
Starts with W
15 words
wave
weave
wolverine
woodstove
waveguide
waveshape
wavetable
wayleave
wavellite
waldgrave
wildgrave
wirewove
wharve
woodreeve
waterdrive
Starts with Y
1 words
yestereve
Starts with Z
1 words
zouave

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