Words Ending in VE and Containing A

Discover 1,168 playable English words ending in VE and containing A, from Have, Leave, Active, Creative, Negative, Alive and Arrive 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
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active
alive
arrive
achieve
alternative
attractive
approve
administrative
aggressive
archive
abusive
addictive
automotive
adjective
adaptive
affirmative
authoritative
apprehensive
attentive
additive
adhesive
assertive
abrasive
Starts with B
17 words
brave
behave
bereave
bioactive
brainwave
bivalve
biconcave
basketweave
bondslave
bioaccumulative
burgrave
bioadhesive
benefactive
bisociative
beslave
beknave
babblative
Starts with C
24 words
creative
conservative
cave
collaborative
cooperative
cumulative
captive
comparative
crave
carve
contraceptive
communicative
contemplative
combative
commemorative
concave
consultative
cleave
capacitive
calve
conclave
curative
counternarrative
commutative
Starts with D
24 words
decorative
derivative
disapprove
demonstrative
degenerative
declarative
deliberative
dissociative
dative
duplicative
discriminative
determinative
denotative
dissipative
deprave
distractive
diffractive
derogative
dissuasive
durative
disintegrative
depreciative
dubitative
deprecative
Starts with E
24 words
expansive
evasive
enslave
engrave
exhaustive
evocative
exploitative
evaluative
enclave
extractive
eave
evaporative
explorative
educative
elaborative
electronegative
exclave
ergative
exudative
enumerative
electroactive
eliminative
exclamative
embracive
Starts with F
20 words
figurative
formative
fixative
fricative
facilitative
facultative
federative
fauve
fermentative
factitive
factive
frequentative
fascinative
fabricative
folkweave
fecundative
flagellative
fashionative
famulative
ferroinclave
Starts with G
12 words
grave
generative
glaive
greave
germinative
gustative
gravitative
gesticulative
gestative
granulative
gemmative
gainstrive
Starts with H
21 words
have
heave
halve
heatwave
hyperactive
hereinabove
heteronormative
hyperaggressive
hortative
hyperreactive
hallucinative
hyperconservative
habitative
hyperspeculative
humiliative
hesitative
homofermentative
hemagglutinative
hebetative
hypersuperlative
heterofermentative
Starts with I
24 words
initiative
interactive
innovative
informative
imperative
indicative
investigative
inactive
invasive
imaginative
iterative
illustrative
integrative
interrogative
inattentive
interweave
interpretative
imitative
impassive
intransitive
intraoperative
inoperative
interleave
incommunicative
Starts with J
2 words
justificative
judicative
Starts with K
1 words
knave
Starts with L
21 words
leave
legislative
lucrative
laxative
ladylove
lave
longwave
lightwave
locative
liquefactive
landgrave
laudative
lipsalve
lubricative
limitative
lustrative
laticlave
leaflove
lacerative
lambitive
ligative
Starts with M
24 words
massive
microwave
manipulative
meditative
misbehave
mangrove
mauve
metacognitive
mojave
multiplicative
maladaptive
metanarrative
mohave
microaggressive
margrave
mitigative
myeloproliferative
meliorative
misrepresentative
mediative
mutative
microinvasive
motivative
magnetostrictive
Starts with N
24 words
negative
native
narrative
naive
normative
neurodegenerative
noninvasive
nominative
nonnative
nave
neoconservative
nonnegative
nonreactive
nonaggressive
noninteractive
noncooperative
nonoperative
nonconservative
nonrelative
noncreative
nonassertive
noncommunicative
nonactive
noncommutative
Starts with O
24 words
operative
octave
oxidative
overactive
overachieve
overaggressive
optative
overimaginative
olfactive
originative
outbrave
opinionative
overassertive
obliterative
overconservative
overattentive
overcommunicative
overtalkative
observative
oscillative
outachieve
overapprehensive
overdemonstrative
overrepresentative
Starts with P
24 words
passive
proactive
provocative
persuasive
pave
pervasive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
putative
plaintive
psychoactive
preoperative
palliative
postoperative
preapprove
participative
proliferative
perioperative
probative
parve
procreative
penetrative
Starts with Q
7 words
qualitative
quantitative
quotative
qualificative
quidditative
quacksalve
quadriderivative
Starts with R
24 words
relative
representative
rave
reactive
radioactive
retroactive
restorative
regenerative
rehabilitative
radiative
refractive
reparative
remunerative
recitative
repave
reave
ruminative
recuperative
reiterative
reformative
replicative
regulative
reapprove
rotative
Starts with S
24 words
save
slave
shave
starve
substantive
speculative
superlative
sedative
suave
stave
salve
shockwave
shortwave
summative
soundwave
subtractive
supermassive
stimulative
stative
soave
sheave
semiquantitative
separative
suppurative
Starts with T
24 words
tentative
transformative
talkative
transitive
transgressive
transportive
tractive
tardive
transmissive
translative
transcriptive
terminative
trave
theave
titillative
tolerative
transmutative
thrave
tidewave
transfusive
trivalve
traditive
traductive
transmigrative
Starts with U
24 words
unattractive
unalive
uncooperative
unimaginative
unrepresentative
uninformative
ultraconservative
ulcerative
underachieve
ultrasensitive
unappreciative
uncommunicative
uncreative
unpersuasive
unaggressive
unassertive
undemonstrative
underactive
unweave
unremunerative
unreactive
untalkative
ultraexpensive
upheave
Starts with V
20 words
valve
vegetative
vaporwave
vituperative
violative
vocative
vasoactive
vasoconstrictive
valuative
vindicative
varve
variative
venerative
vitative
vibrative
ventilative
verificative
visitative
voluntative
vellicative
Starts with W
9 words
wave
weave
waive
wayleave
waldgrave
wildgrave
writative
wharve
waterdrive
Starts with Z
1 words
zouave

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