9 Letter Words Ending in VE

Discover 276 playable English 9 letter words that end with VE, from Effective, Objective, Executive, Sensitive, Expensive, Narrative and Exclusive to rarer plays. Each entry is verified for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, and daily writing, complete with letter counts and meanings below.

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Starts with A
24 words
addictive
adjective
attentive
assertive
assistive
affective
autoclave
accretive
advective
adventive
adductive
adjustive
assuasive
acceptive
animative
assortive
admissive
adversive
arrestive
aspersive
aperitive
agitative
appulsive
assentive
Starts with B
5 words
bioactive
brainwave
bijective
biconcave
bondslave
Starts with C
23 words
cognitive
conducive
combative
corrosive
causative
collusive
cookstove
crimewave
chillwave
calmative
caressive
champleve
cessative
creditive
corrasive
contusive
connexive
collative
coemptive
coinvolve
centgrave
collisive
curvative
Starts with D
24 words
detective
defensive
directive
deceptive
defective
digestive
deductive
diffusive
depictive
dormitive
decretive
drawshave
duckshove
dataglove
detersive
divertive
depletive
decursive
deviative
dictative
desistive
divulsive
demissive
dikereeve
Starts with E
24 words
effective
executive
expensive
exclusive
extensive
explosive
excessive
expansive
evocative
expletive
educative
extrusive
exudative
excursive
embracive
expulsive
evolutive
emulative
exemptive
exceptive
emanative
egressive
excretive
expiative
Starts with F
5 words
formative
fricative
factitive
forgetive
folkweave
Starts with G
4 words
gerundive
gustative
gestative
gemmative
Starts with H
2 words
hortative
humective
Starts with I
24 words
incentive
intuitive
intensive
inclusive
intrusive
immersive
impulsive
iterative
inductive
inventive
imitative
impassive
invective
infective
implosive
injective
ingestive
impactive
inceptive
irruptive
incursive
isolative
inversive
inflative
Starts with L
6 words
lucrative
lightwave
landgrave
laudative
laticlave
lambitive
Starts with M
4 words
microwave
misbehave
mediative
mahoosive
Starts with N
5 words
narrative
normative
nonnative
nutritive
nonactive
Starts with O
13 words
objective
offensive
obsessive
operative
overdrive
oxidative
obtrusive
occlusive
ostensive
overserve
olfactive
outstrive
outthieve
Starts with P
24 words
primitive
proactive
pervasive
plaintive
probative
purposive
purgative
partitive
privative
pollutive
promotive
portative
portreeve
placative
perfusive
prolative
prelusive
parasceve
palsgrave
pulsative
precative
predative
profusive
precisive
Starts with Q
1 words
quotative
Starts with R
23 words
receptive
repulsive
recessive
recursive
reflexive
reclusive
reductive
radiative
resistive
retentive
reinvolve
reapprove
reenslave
remissive
rejective
reobserve
revulsive
revertive
revengive
refective
reengrave
retortive
resentive
Starts with S
19 words
sensitive
selective
seductive
secretive
shockwave
shortwave
summative
soundwave
semibreve
siccative
suffusive
seclusive
superwave
sociative
suboctave
spoilfive
soliative
subsecive
superhive
Starts with T
4 words
tentative
talkative
traditive
transmove
Starts with U
6 words
undeceive
unbelieve
unreserve
unabusive
undeserve
urinative
Starts with V
5 words
vaporwave
violative
valuative
variative
vibrative
Starts with W
5 words
woodstove
waldgrave
wildgrave
writative
woodreeve
Starts with Y
1 words
yestereve

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