Words Ending in IVE and Containing N

Browse 734 verified English words ending in IVE and containing N, including Negative, Conservative, Native, Alternative, Representative, Sensitive and Expensive. 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
24 words
alternative
administrative
apprehensive
attentive
argumentative
antihypertensive
anticompetitive
anticorrosive
adjunctive
anticipative
augmentative
agentive
antitussive
antiresorptive
antireflective
antiderivative
antisubversive
adventive
annotative
anticonvulsive
appointive
agglutinative
annihilative
antiprogressive
Starts with B
2 words
benefactive
benedictive
Starts with C
24 words
conservative
comprehensive
cognitive
constructive
conceive
consecutive
contraceptive
communicative
conclusive
conducive
contemplative
counterproductive
connective
counterintuitive
contrive
consultative
congestive
counteroffensive
conductive
convective
convulsive
concussive
connive
constitutive
Starts with D
24 words
defensive
distinctive
definitive
demonstrative
diminutive
degenerative
disincentive
discriminative
determinative
denotative
disjunctive
deconstructive
disintegrative
ditransitive
denotive
delineative
donative
denigrative
dominative
detonative
differentiative
denominative
denunciative
designative
Starts with E
24 words
expensive
extensive
expansive
endive
electronegative
electroconvulsive
enumerative
eliminative
explanative
enactive
exonerative
eventive
electrosensitive
emancipative
enlive
emanative
exterminative
extinctive
enervative
endorsive
extenuative
enunciative
evincive
enculturative
Starts with F
8 words
fermentative
frequentative
fermentive
fascinative
fensive
fecundative
finitive
fashionative
Starts with G
6 words
generative
genitive
germinative
gerundive
granulative
gainstrive
Starts with H
10 words
hypertensive
hypersensitive
heteronormative
hyperresponsive
hypotensive
hallucinative
hyperconservative
homofermentative
hemagglutinative
heterofermentative
Starts with I
24 words
initiative
interactive
innovative
incentive
intuitive
intensive
inclusive
informative
indicative
inexpensive
ineffective
investigative
inactive
intrusive
invasive
imaginative
insensitive
interpretive
instinctive
inductive
inquisitive
instructive
introspective
inventive
Starts with L
1 words
lenitive
Starts with M
16 words
manipulative
metacognitive
metanarrative
misconceive
misrepresentative
microinvasive
magnetostrictive
magnetomotive
maladministrative
mechanoreceptive
monitive
manifestative
mensurative
ministrative
misapprehensive
mundificative
Starts with N
24 words
negative
native
narrative
naive
normative
neurodegenerative
noninvasive
nominative
nonnative
nonresponsive
nosedive
neoconservative
noncompetitive
nonnegative
nutritive
nondestructive
nonexclusive
nonproductive
nonconsecutive
nonexecutive
nonintrusive
nonreactive
neurocognitive
nonsensitive
Starts with O
14 words
offensive
oversensitive
ostensive
overimaginative
originative
opinionative
overconservative
overattentive
overcommunicative
overapprehensive
overdemonstrative
overrepresentative
omnirepresentative
overargumentative
Starts with P
24 words
preventive
punitive
pensive
plaintive
penetrative
photosensitive
preconceive
precognitive
photoconductive
pendentive
photonegative
presentative
prehensive
precomprehensive
pretensive
procrastinative
progenitive
protensive
philoprogenitive
pseudoconservative
preinterpretative
prognosticative
premonitive
punctuative
Starts with Q
1 words
quantitative
Starts with R
21 words
representative
responsive
regenerative
reconstructive
retentive
remunerative
reconceive
ruminative
radiosensitive
reintegrative
remonstrative
recognitive
renovative
renunciative
reprehensive
recriminative
ratiocinative
revengive
redintegrative
resentive
resinoextractive
Starts with S
24 words
sensitive
substantive
subjunctive
supersensitive
superexpensive
semiquantitative
superconductive
suspensive
sterndrive
significative
seronegative
superconservative
sanative
semiconservative
subordinative
sternutative
syncopative
splenative
subadministrative
substantiative
superregenerative
sustentative
subornative
sustentive
Starts with T
17 words
tentative
transformative
transitive
transgressive
transportive
transmissive
translative
transcriptive
tensive
terminative
transmutative
transfusive
transmigrative
transpositive
transumptive
transubstantiative
tonalitive
Starts with U
24 words
unattractive
unresponsive
unproductive
unalive
unimpressive
unobtrusive
uncooperative
unimaginative
uncompetitive
unrepresentative
uninformative
unsupportive
ultraconservative
ultrasensitive
unappreciative
uncommunicative
uncreative
unpersuasive
unreceptive
unselective
unaggressive
unassertive
unreflective
undemonstrative
Starts with V
6 words
vindictive
vasoconstrictive
vindicative
venerative
ventilative
voluntative

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