Nouns Ending in IVE and Containing S

This list gathers 148 English nouns ending in IVE and containing S, such as Positive, Conservative, Representative, Sensitive, Perspective, Exclusive and Progressive. Use the sorting controls below to organize entries by length, or consult our noun grammar guide to review pluralization and capitalization rules.

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Starts with A
19 words
adhesive
abrasive
antihypertensive
accusative
aversive
appositive
anticorrosive
antitussive
antiresorptive
adversative
absolutive
antisubversive
anticonvulsive
antiprogressive
anticonservative
abessive
adessive
abstersive
archrepresentative
Starts with B
1 words
bioadhesive
Starts with C
14 words
conservative
comprehensive
corrosive
cursive
counteroffensive
consumptive
causative
contrapositive
concessive
cyclosportive
cessative
constative
contragestive
censive
Starts with D
17 words
defensive
digestive
depressive
demonstrative
distributive
dissociative
disincentive
disjunctive
ditransitive
desiderative
diapositive
desiccative
decongestive
detersive
discretive
divulsive
defensative
Starts with E
7 words
exclusive
extrusive
expulsive
electrosensitive
egressive
essive
exsiccative
Starts with H
4 words
hypertensive
hypotensive
hyperconservative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I
9 words
intensive
intransitive
immunosuppressive
implosive
ingressive
inessive
intensitive
intensative
incrassative
Starts with J
1 words
jussive
Starts with M
3 words
missive
mediopassive
misdrive
Starts with N
7 words
nosedive
neoconservative
nonconservative
normotensive
noncorrosive
nonexplosive
necessitative
Starts with O
3 words
offensive
obsessive
occlusive
Starts with P
16 words
positive
perspective
progressive
passive
possessive
preservative
psychoactive
plosive
prepositive
presentative
postpositive
pseudoconservative
photopositive
pseudoperspective
predemonstrative
pseudoapplicative
Starts with R
10 words
representative
restrictive
retrospective
recessive
restorative
resumptive
resultative
revulsive
reservative
resinoextractive
Starts with S
24 words
sensitive
subjective
substantive
submissive
superlative
sedative
subversive
suppressive
subjunctive
skydive
skive
seropositive
stimulative
stative
swive
suppurative
schizoaffective
shive
sterndrive
superconservative
slive
suppletive
siccative
stive
Starts with T
2 words
transitive
translative
Starts with U
1 words
ultraconservative

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