Words Ending in IVE and Containing NS

Discover 151 playable English words ending in IVE and containing NS, from Conservative, Sensitive, Expensive, Comprehensive, Extensive, Offensive and Defensive 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
5 words
apprehensive
antihypertensive
anticonservative
ascensive
anticonscriptive
Starts with C
22 words
conservative
comprehensive
constructive
consecutive
consultative
counteroffensive
constitutive
consumptive
coextensive
constrictive
compensative
consolidative
chemosensitive
consultive
corresponsive
considerative
constative
consummative
consecrative
censive
credensive
consignificative
Starts with D
9 words
defensive
demonstrative
deconstructive
ditransitive
descensive
distensive
dimensive
defensative
dispensative
Starts with E
5 words
expensive
extensive
expansive
electrosensitive
extratensive
Starts with F
1 words
fensive
Starts with G
1 words
gainstrive
Starts with H
5 words
hypertensive
hypersensitive
hyperresponsive
hypotensive
hyperconservative
Starts with I
22 words
intensive
inexpensive
insensitive
instinctive
instructive
inoffensive
intransitive
insulative
irresponsive
inconsecutive
instigative
incomprehensive
inscriptive
insinuative
inspirative
institutive
inapprehensive
intensitive
intensative
insusceptive
inspective
insignificative
Starts with M
2 words
mensurative
misapprehensive
Starts with N
18 words
nonresponsive
neoconservative
nonconsecutive
nonsensitive
nonselective
nonconservative
normotensive
noncomprehensive
nonconstructive
nondemonstrative
nonspeculative
nonconsumptive
nonsubjective
nonstative
nontransitive
nontransgressive
nonsignificative
nontranscriptive
Starts with O
6 words
offensive
oversensitive
ostensive
overconservative
overapprehensive
overdemonstrative
Starts with P
11 words
pensive
photosensitive
prehensive
precomprehensive
pretensive
protensive
pseudoconservative
propensive
predemonstrative
prepensive
pseudoapprehensive
Starts with R
5 words
responsive
reconstructive
radiosensitive
remonstrative
reprehensive
Starts with S
6 words
sensitive
supersensitive
superexpensive
suspensive
superconservative
semiconservative
Starts with T
14 words
transformative
transitive
transgressive
transportive
transmissive
translative
transcriptive
tensive
transmutative
transfusive
transmigrative
transpositive
transumptive
transubstantiative
Starts with U
18 words
unresponsive
unsupportive
ultraconservative
ultrasensitive
unselective
undemonstrative
unconstructive
unoffensive
ultraexpensive
uninstructive
unsensitive
uncomprehensive
unexpensive
unapprehensive
unsubmissive
unsuccessive
unspeculative
untransformative
Starts with V
1 words
vasoconstrictive

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