Words Ending in IVE and Containing RE

This word list gathers 288 English words ending in IVE and containing RE, such as Receive, Creative, Relative, Representative, Progressive, Comprehensive and Aggressive. Use the interactive filters below to sort alphabetically or by length, and check definitions for every word.

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Starts with A
13 words
aggressive
apprehensive
appreciative
accretive
aggregative
antiresorptive
antireflective
antiprogressive
arrestive
abreactive
antiputrefactive
archrepresentative
anticreative
Starts with C
17 words
creative
comprehensive
corrective
compressive
correlative
chemopreventive
congregative
caressive
crepitative
corresponsive
chemoreceptive
creditive
crescive
cresive
concretive
credensive
credencive
Starts with D
11 words
directive
depressive
digressive
degressive
depreciative
deprecative
decompressive
differentiative
decretive
discretive
disaggregative
Starts with E
7 words
expressive
erective
egressive
excretive
electroreceptive
entreative
excrementive
Starts with F
1 words
frequentative
Starts with H
3 words
hyperaggressive
hyperresponsive
hyperreactive
Starts with I
20 words
impressive
interpretive
irrespective
interpretative
immunosuppressive
inexpressive
irresponsive
immunoreactive
irreflexive
inappreciative
ingressive
incomprehensive
irrelative
impredicative
introgressive
irreflective
irreceptive
inapprehensive
irretentive
irremissive
Starts with L
1 words
locorestive
Starts with M
6 words
microaggressive
misrepresentative
mechanoreceptive
misapprehensive
miscreative
misappreciative
Starts with N
18 words
nonresponsive
nonreactive
nonaggressive
nonrelative
noncreative
nonrestrictive
nonprogressive
nondirective
nonreflective
nonrepresentative
noncomprehensive
nonreproductive
nonreflexive
nonretroactive
noninterpretative
nontransgressive
nonprecipitative
nonresuscitative
Starts with O
8 words
oppressive
overaggressive
overapprehensive
overrepresentative
overappreciative
overeffusive
orective
omnirepresentative
Starts with P
24 words
progressive
predictive
preventive
prerogative
prescriptive
preservative
preemptive
presumptive
preoperative
procreative
preparative
predicative
preconceive
precognitive
prepositive
preclusive
photorefractive
prefigurative
photoreceptive
precompetitive
predive
photoreactive
preceptive
putrefactive
Starts with R
24 words
receive
relative
representative
reproductive
revive
respective
responsive
reflective
repetitive
restrictive
retrospective
reactive
receptive
retroactive
relive
regressive
repressive
repulsive
recessive
redemptive
recursive
restorative
reflexive
regenerative
Starts with S
9 words
secretive
suppressive
supereffective
superexpensive
stereoselective
segregative
superregenerative
supererogative
subreptive
Starts with T
2 words
transgressive
terremotive
Starts with U
19 words
unresponsive
unimpressive
unrepresentative
unappreciative
uncreative
unreceptive
unaggressive
unreflective
unremunerative
unexpressive
unreactive
unprogressive
uncomprehensive
unapprehensive
unoppressive
unrespective
uninterpretative
unrelative
unretentive

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