11-letter words that end in ive
- confutative — That confutes.
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- conjunctive — joining; connective
- connotative — (of a word or expression) signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning: A connotative word such as “steely” would never be used when referring to a woman.
- consecutive — Consecutive periods of time or events happen one after the other without interruption.
- consequtive — Misspelling of consecutive.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- contractive — having the power of contracting
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- cooperative — A cooperative is a business or organization run by the people who work for it, or owned by the people who use it. These people share its benefits and profits.
- corporative — of or characteristic of a corporation
- correlative — If one thing is a correlative of another, the first thing is caused by the second thing, or occurs together with it.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- defensative — a thing that offers protection or defence, esp a dressing, etc, that protects against infection or injury
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degradative — causing degradation
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- denigrative — tending to denigrate
- deprecative — serving to deprecate; deprecatory.
- deprivative — of, relating to, or causing deprivation
- descriptive — Descriptive language or writing indicates what someone or something is like.
- desiccative — Causing to desiccate, dry.
- designative — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- discerptive — capable of being discerped
- disillusive — tending to disillusion
- disjunctive — serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- dispositive — involving or affecting disposition or settlement: a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- disquietive — having a disquieting effect or character
- dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- distinctive — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- ditto drive — (hardware, storage) The Ditto tape drives range in capacity from 120 megabytes to 1.6 gigabytes (data compression can roughly double these figures). The newer devices are designed for special tapes, though they will read standard tape types. The largest of tape stores up 3.2 GB. Using an enhanced floppy drive card the transfer rate approaches the claimed 19 MB/minute. External parallel port versions are also available.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- eliminative — Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evaporative — Relating to or involving evaporation.
- exclamative — a word or sentence that denotes an exclamation