12-letter words that end in ve
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonobjective — not objective.
- nonobsessive — Not obsessive.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonoffensive — Not offensive.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonsensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- objet trouve — found object.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
- outlet valve — a valve (on a pipe, etc) controlling the escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- overreactive — tending to react.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- planoconcave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- pocket drive — a small portable memory device that can be plugged into the USB port of many different types of computer
- poppet valve — A poppet valve is a disk-shaped intake or exhaust valve in an internal combustion engine.
- post-tussive — of or relating to a cough.
- posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
- postpositive — (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
- preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
- prescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- presentative — (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- preventative — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- psychoactive — of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes: a psychoactive drug.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- regenerative — of, relating to, or characterized by regeneration.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- relief valve — a device that, when actuated by static pressure above a predetermined level, opens in proportion to the excess above this level and reduces the pressure to it. Compare safety valve (def 1).
- remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.