9-letter words that end in tive
- abductive — (anatomy) Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement. (Mid 19th century.).
- abjective — tending to degrade, humiliate, or demoralize: the abjective influences of his early life.
- acceptive — ready or willing to accept
- accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- addictive — If a drug is addictive, people who take it cannot stop taking it.
- adductive — of a nature that leads towards a change
- adjective — An adjective is a word such as 'big', 'dead', or 'financial' that describes a person or thing, or gives extra information about them. Adjectives usually come before nouns or after link verbs.
- adjustive — allowing for adjustment
- advective — relating to advection
- adventive — (of a species) introduced to a new area and not yet established there; exotic
- affective — relating to affects
- agitative — tending to stir or agitate
- animative — Tending to animate; causing animation.
- aperitive — aperient.
- arrestive — tending to arrest
- assentive — having the tendency to concur or comply
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- assistive — providing a means of reducing a physical impairment
- assortive — to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- attritive — Causing attrition.
- attuitive — characterized by attuition
- bijective — (of a function, relation, etc) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- cognitive — Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- collative — involving collation
- combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- commotive — violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance: What's all the commotion in the hallway?
- commutive — (linguistics) That which serves to commute.
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- depictive — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depletive — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- detective — A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.
- deviative — tending to deviate or cause to deviate
- digestive — serving for or pertaining to digestion; having the function of digesting food: the digestive tract.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- divertive — diverting; amusing.
- dormitive — having the effect of inducing sleep
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- effective — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
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