Nouns Ending in IVE and Containing R

Browse 179 valid English nouns ending in IVE and containing R, from Drive, Creative, Conservative, Relative, Alternative, Representative and Narrative 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
alternative
archive
affirmative
abrasive
antihypertensive
aversive
attributive
anticorrosive
antiresorptive
antiderivative
ameliorative
adversative
antisubversive
alterative
admirative
antiprogressive
anticonservative
antinarrative
affricative
aperitive
abstersive
antifermentative
antiputrefactive
afformative
Starts with C
24 words
creative
conservative
comprehensive
collaborative
cooperative
comparative
contraceptive
corrective
commemorative
corrosive
cursive
counteroffensive
curative
counternarrative
correlative
carminative
contrapositive
chemopreventive
counteractive
cohortative
cyclosportive
cruive
contragestive
coalternative
Starts with D
17 words
drive
derivative
directive
depressive
demonstrative
declarative
distributive
determinative
durative
ditransitive
desiderative
dormitive
detersive
deverbative
depurative
discretive
deprivative
Starts with E
8 words
extractive
eruptive
extrusive
ergative
expurgative
electrosensitive
egressive
expectorative
Starts with F
3 words
formative
fricative
frequentative
Starts with G
1 words
gerundive
Starts with H
5 words
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hortative
hyperconservative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I
10 words
interactive
imperative
iterative
interrogative
intransitive
immunosuppressive
imperfective
ingressive
internegative
incrassative
Starts with M
5 words
metanarrative
meliorative
microdrive
maturative
misdrive
Starts with N
10 words
narrative
neoconservative
nutritive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
nonnarrative
noncorrosive
nonderivative
numerative
Starts with O
3 words
operative
overdrive
outdrive
Starts with P
24 words
perspective
progressive
primitive
provocative
preventive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
preparative
purgative
perfective
predicative
partitive
privative
prepositive
portative
predive
presentative
prolative
preformative
preteritive
pseudoconservative
precative
Starts with Q
1 words
quadriderivative
Starts with R
20 words
relative
representative
restrictive
retrospective
recessive
restorative
reflexive
recitative
rive
reiterative
redrive
reduplicative
resumptive
resultative
refrigerative
revulsive
reservative
refective
relaxative
resinoextractive
Starts with S
11 words
superlative
subversive
suppressive
seropositive
suppurative
sterndrive
superconservative
scrive
sternutative
superhive
subtersuperlative
Starts with T
3 words
transitive
translative
terminative
Starts with U
3 words
ultraconservative
underdrive
urinative
Starts with W
1 words
waterdrive

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