Words Ending in IVE and Containing EN

Browse 166 verified English words ending in IVE and containing EN, including Representative, Sensitive, Expensive, Comprehensive, Extensive, Offensive and Defensive. Validated against official game lexicons for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, and daily writing, explore definitions and letter counts below.

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Starts with A
13 words
apprehensive
attentive
argumentative
antihypertensive
augmentative
agentive
adventive
assentive
alimentative
ascensive
antifermentative
alimentive
archrepresentative
Starts with B
2 words
benefactive
benedictive
Starts with C
13 words
comprehensive
counteroffensive
coextensive
chemopreventive
concentrative
compensative
chemosensitive
catenative
commentative
circumventive
censive
credensive
credencive
Starts with D
19 words
defensive
degenerative
disincentive
denotative
denotive
denigrative
differentiative
denominative
denunciative
descensive
distensive
denumerative
documentative
denudative
detentive
dimensive
defensative
dispensative
denumerantive
Starts with E
24 words
expensive
extensive
endive
enumerative
enactive
eventive
electrosensitive
enlive
enervative
endorsive
extenuative
enunciative
enculturative
enforcive
entitative
enhancive
experimentative
entreative
excrementive
evidencive
encaptive
erythrodegenerative
extratensive
enrive
Starts with F
4 words
fermentative
frequentative
fermentive
fensive
Starts with G
2 words
generative
genitive
Starts with H
5 words
hypertensive
hypersensitive
hypotensive
homofermentative
heterofermentative
Starts with I
14 words
incentive
intensive
inexpensive
insensitive
inventive
inoffensive
inattentive
incomprehensive
intentive
interpenetrative
inapprehensive
intensitive
intensative
irretentive
Starts with L
1 words
lenitive
Starts with M
3 words
misrepresentative
mensurative
misapprehensive
Starts with N
9 words
neurodegenerative
nonsensitive
nonpenetrative
nonrepresentative
normotensive
noncomprehensive
nonargumentative
nonconcentrative
nomenclative
Starts with O
8 words
offensive
oversensitive
ostensive
overattentive
overapprehensive
overrepresentative
omnirepresentative
overargumentative
Starts with P
18 words
preventive
pensive
penetrative
photosensitive
pendentive
presentative
prehensive
precomprehensive
pretensive
progenitive
protensive
philoprogenitive
primogenitive
propensive
presentive
parthenogenitive
prepensive
pseudoapprehensive
Starts with R
9 words
representative
regenerative
retentive
radiosensitive
renovative
renunciative
reprehensive
revengive
resentive
Starts with S
8 words
sensitive
supersensitive
superexpensive
suspensive
splenative
superregenerative
sustentative
sustentive
Starts with T
2 words
tentative
tensive
Starts with U
10 words
unrepresentative
ultrasensitive
uninventive
unoffensive
ultraexpensive
unsensitive
uncomprehensive
unexpensive
unapprehensive
unretentive
Starts with V
2 words
venerative
ventilative

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