Words Ending in VE and Containing RI

Discover 112 playable English words ending in VE and containing RI, from Drive, Arrive, Derive, Primitive, Retrieve, Thrive and Descriptive 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
13 words
arrive
authoritative
attributive
appropriative
aggrieve
antiderivative
ascriptive
affricative
aperitive
attritive
astrictive
adscriptive
anticonscriptive
Starts with B
1 words
brieve
Starts with C
11 words
counterintuitive
contrive
contributive
crimewave
constrictive
codrive
criminative
coderive
circumscriptive
charitative
counterinvective
Starts with D
10 words
drive
derive
descriptive
deprive
derivative
derisive
distributive
discriminative
deteriorative
deprivative
Starts with E
4 words
experimentative
engrieve
electrostrictive
enrive
Starts with F
2 words
fricative
fabricative
Starts with G
2 words
grieve
gainstrive
Starts with H
1 words
hyperdrive
Starts with I
5 words
irritative
indiscriminative
inscriptive
irrigative
interinvolve
Starts with J
1 words
jurisdictive
Starts with L
1 words
lubricative
Starts with M
3 words
microdrive
magnetostrictive
misdrive
Starts with N
10 words
nutritive
nonrestrictive
nonauthoritative
nonnutritive
nonderivative
nondescriptive
nondiscriminative
nonappropriative
noncircumscriptive
nontranscriptive
Starts with O
6 words
overdrive
outdrive
overimaginative
originative
outstrive
overillustrative
Starts with P
10 words
primitive
prescriptive
perioperative
proprioceptive
privative
proscriptive
preteritive
purificative
petrifactive
primogenitive
Starts with Q
1 words
quadriderivative
Starts with R
12 words
retrieve
restrictive
reprieve
retributive
redistributive
rive
redrive
ringdove
refrigerative
recriminative
restrive
rescriptive
Starts with S
7 words
strive
shrive
sterndrive
scrive
scrieve
subscriptive
superinquisitive
Starts with T
3 words
thrive
transcriptive
trivalve
Starts with U
4 words
unauthoritative
underdrive
undiscriminative
urinative
Starts with V
3 words
vasoconstrictive
variative
verificative
Starts with W
2 words
writative
waterdrive

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