Words Ending in IVE and Containing C

Discover 741 playable English words ending in IVE and containing C, from Receive, Active, Creative, Effective, Conservative, Objective and Executive 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
active
attractive
archive
addictive
adjective
appreciative
affective
associative
acquisitive
anticompetitive
accusative
accumulative
accommodative
accretive
allocative
anticorrosive
adjunctive
applicative
anticipative
adjudicative
abstractive
antireflective
afflictive
advective
Starts with B
6 words
bioactive
bijective
bioaccumulative
benefactive
bisociative
benedictive
Starts with C
24 words
creative
conservative
competitive
comprehensive
cognitive
collaborative
collective
cooperative
constructive
conceive
cumulative
captive
comparative
consecutive
cohesive
compulsive
contraceptive
corrective
coercive
communicative
conclusive
conducive
contemplative
combative
Starts with D
24 words
detective
destructive
deceive
distinctive
decisive
descriptive
decorative
directive
deceptive
defective
deductive
declarative
discursive
dissociative
disincentive
duplicative
discriminative
disjunctive
deconstructive
distractive
diffractive
depictive
depreciative
deflective
Starts with E
24 words
effective
executive
exclusive
excessive
elective
evocative
extractive
educative
electronegative
electropositive
electromotive
electroconvulsive
electroactive
excursive
exclamative
embracive
enactive
explicative
elucidative
erective
electrosensitive
eradicative
extrospective
emancipative
Starts with F
11 words
fictive
fricative
facilitative
facultative
factitive
factive
flexecutive
fascinative
fabricative
fructive
fecundative
Starts with G
1 words
gesticulative
Starts with H
7 words
hyperactive
hyperreactive
hallucinative
hyperconservative
hyperproductive
hyperspeculative
humective
Starts with I
24 words
interactive
incentive
inclusive
indicative
ineffective
inactive
instinctive
inductive
instructive
introspective
irrespective
inconclusive
indecisive
incisive
invective
infective
intersubjective
incommunicative
injective
injunctive
imperceptive
imperfective
impactive
immunoreactive
Starts with J
3 words
justificative
judicative
jurisdictive
Starts with L
7 words
lucrative
locomotive
locative
liquefactive
lubricative
lacerative
locorestive
Starts with M
17 words
metacognitive
multiplicative
misperceive
misconceive
microaggressive
microdrive
microinvasive
magnetostrictive
medicative
mechanoreceptive
maledictive
modificative
miseducative
miscreative
mundificative
macerative
misappreciative
Starts with N
24 words
neoconservative
noncompetitive
nondestructive
nonexclusive
nonproductive
nonconsecutive
nonexecutive
nonreactive
neurocognitive
nonselective
noninteractive
noncooperative
nonconservative
neuroprotective
nociceptive
noncreative
noncommunicative
nonrestrictive
nonactive
noncognitive
nonobjective
noncommutative
nonconductive
nonaddictive
Starts with O
13 words
objective
overprotective
overactive
obstructive
occlusive
olfactive
overconservative
overcommunicative
oscillative
overappreciative
occupative
orective
overgesticulative
Starts with P
24 words
perspective
productive
perceive
protective
prospective
proactive
provocative
predictive
perceptive
prescriptive
psychoactive
percussive
projective
participative
procreative
proprioceptive
perfective
predicative
preconceive
photoactive
proscriptive
precognitive
photoconductive
preclusive
Starts with Q
1 words
qualificative
Starts with R
24 words
receive
reproductive
respective
reflective
restrictive
retrospective
reactive
radioactive
receptive
retroactive
recessive
recursive
reclusive
reductive
reconstructive
refractive
recitative
reconceive
recuperative
replicative
retroreflective
recreative
recollective
reduplicative
Starts with S
24 words
subjective
selective
successive
speculative
seductive
secretive
subjunctive
subtractive
supereffective
surjective
superconductive
schizoaffective
superactive
significative
stereoselective
superconservative
suffocative
semiconservative
siccative
susceptive
satisfactive
scrive
seclusive
syncopative
Starts with T
4 words
tractive
transcriptive
traductive
thermoelectromotive
Starts with U
24 words
unattractive
unproductive
uncooperative
uncompetitive
ultraconservative
ulcerative
unappreciative
uncommunicative
uncreative
unreceptive
unselective
unreflective
underactive
unconducive
unconstructive
undeceive
unperceptive
unreactive
ultraexclusive
uninstructive
unobjective
uncomprehensive
unprovocative
undistinctive
Starts with V
8 words
vindictive
vocative
vasoactive
vasoconstrictive
vindicative
verificative
vivisective
vellicative

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