Nouns Ending in VE and Containing R
This list gathers 269 English nouns ending in VE and containing R, such as Drive, Serve, Creative, Remove, Conservative, Relative and Drove. 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 A24 words
alternative
archive
affirmative
abrasive
aftershave
antihypertensive
aversive
airwave
attributive
architrave
anticorrosive
antiresorptive
antiderivative
ameliorative
adversative
antisubversive
alterative
admirative
antiprogressive
anticonservative
antinarrative
affricative
aperitive
abstersive
Starts with B5 words
brave
brainwave
breve
burgrave
brieve
Starts with C24 words
creative
conservative
curve
comprehensive
collaborative
cooperative
comparative
conserve
contraceptive
corrective
commemorative
corrosive
cursive
counteroffensive
curative
counternarrative
countermove
correlative
carminative
crimewave
contrapositive
chemopreventive
counteractive
cohortative
Starts with D21 words
drive
drove
derivative
directive
depressive
demonstrative
declarative
distributive
determinative
durative
ditransitive
desiderative
dormitive
drawshave
detersive
deverbative
depurative
discretive
dikereeve
dikegrave
deprivative
Starts with E9 words
extractive
eruptive
extrusive
ergative
expurgative
electrosensitive
egressive
expectorative
equicurve
Starts with F4 words
formative
fricative
frequentative
ferroinclave
Starts with G6 words
grave
grove
grieve
groove
greave
gerundive
Starts with H5 words
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hortative
hyperconservative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I12 words
interactive
imperative
iterative
interrogative
intransitive
immunosuppressive
imperfective
ingressive
incurve
internegative
interfluve
incrassative
Starts with L
2 words lurve
landgrave
Starts with M9 words
microwave
mangrove
metanarrative
margrave
meliorative
microgroove
microdrive
maturative
misdrive
Starts with N11 words
narrative
nerve
neoconservative
nutritive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
nonnarrative
noncorrosive
nonderivative
numerative
Starts with O6 words
operative
overdrive
outdrive
outcurve
oversleeve
overlove
Starts with P24 words
perspective
progressive
preserve
primitive
provocative
preventive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
preparative
purgative
pareve
perve
perfective
predicative
partitive
privative
prepositive
portative
portreeve
premove
predive
presolve
Starts with Q
1 words 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 S22 words
serve
swerve
superlative
subversive
shortwave
suppressive
shirtsleeve
seropositive
suppurative
slurve
semibreve
sterndrive
superconservative
screeve
scrive
sternutative
superwave
scrieve
superoctave
subcontraoctave
superhive
subtersuperlative
Starts with T10 words
trove
transitive
turtledove
truelove
translative
terminative
trave
thrave
trivalve
trunksleeve
Starts with U7 words
ultraconservative
unreserve
upcurve
underdrive
undersleeve
undergrove
urinative
Starts with V3 words
verve
vaporwave
varve
Starts with W6 words
waldgrave
wildgrave
wirewove
wharve
woodreeve
waterdrive
Starts with Y
1 words yestereve