Words that start with 'a' and contain 'ive'


There are 409 entries for words starting with 'a' that contain 'ive', so take your time.

5 letter words

  • aiver
  • alive

6 letter words

  • active
  • aivers
  • alives
  • argive
  • arrive
  • avives

7 letter words

  • abusive
  • actives
  • aestive
  • amative
  • amusive
  • aquiver
  • archive
  • arrived
  • arriver
  • arrives
  • ascrive
  • ashiver
  • athrive

8 letter words

  • abditive
  • abessive
  • ablative
  • aborsive
  • abortive
  • abrasive
  • accusive
  • actively
  • adaptive
  • additive
  • adessive
  • adhesive
  • adoptive
  • adustive
  • advisive
  • agentive
  • alewives
  • allative
  • allusive
  • ambivert
  • annexive
  • archived
  • archiver
  • archives
  • arrivers
  • arrosive
  • auditive
  • aversive
  • avertive

9 letter words

  • abjective
  • ablatives
  • abrasives
  • abusively
  • acceptive
  • accessive
  • accretive
  • aconative
  • acurative
  • addictive
  • additives
  • adductive
  • adhesives
  • adjective
  • adjustive
  • admissive
  • advancive
  • advective
  • adventive
  • adversive
  • affective
  • agentives
  • agitative
  • aliveness
  • almsgiver
  • amatively
  • ambiverts
  • amusively
  • animative
  • anniverse
  • antivenin
  • antivenom
  • aperitive
  • appeasive
  • applosive
  • appulsive
  • archivers
  • arrestive
  • ascensive
  • aspersive
  • assausive
  • assentive
  • assertive
  • assistive
  • assortive

10 letter words

  • abdicative
  • aberrative
  • abjunctive
  • ablatively
  • abnegative
  • abortively
  • abrasively
  • abrogative
  • absolutive
  • absorptive
  • abstersive
  • accusative
  • acervative
  • activeness
  • adaptative
  • adaptively
  • addictives
  • additively
  • adequative
  • adhesively
  • adjectives
  • adjunctive
  • admirative
  • admonitive
  • adoptative
  • adoptively
  • adsorptive
  • advocative
  • affinitive
  • afflictive
  • affrontive
  • afterlives
  • aggressive
  • airbrasive
  • alimentive
  • alkatively
  • allocutive
  • allusively
  • alterative
  • ambulative
  • ampliative
  • amputative
  • annotative
  • antivenene
  • antivenine

11 letter words

  • abstractive
  • abusiveness
  • accessively
  • accusatives
  • acetylative
  • acquisitive
  • addictively
  • adjectively
  • admissively
  • adscriptive
  • adumbrative
  • adventively
  • adversative
  • affectively
  • affirmative
  • afformative
  • affricative
  • aggravative
  • aggregative
  • alleviative
  • altercative
  • alternative
  • amativeness
  • ambiversion
  • ambiversive
  • amplicative
  • amusiveness
  • anniversary
  • anoxidative
  • antierosive
  • antitussive
  • antivenefic
  • appellative
  • apperceived
  • applicative
  • approbative
  • appulsively
  • arbitrative
  • arguitively
  • argumentive
  • arrivederci
  • arrivederla
  • aspersively
  • assertative
  • assertively

12 letter words

  • abirritative
  • abortiveness
  • abrasiveness
  • absorptively
  • accelerative
  • accompletive
  • accumulative
  • accusatively
  • adaptiveness
  • adhesiveness
  • adjudicative
  • adjunctively
  • admiratively
  • admonitively
  • adsorptively
  • advisiveness
  • affinitative
  • affirmatives
  • afflictively
  • aggressively
  • albificative
  • alimentative
  • alliterative
  • allusiveness
  • alteratively
  • alternatives
  • amalgamative
  • ameliorative
  • annihilative
  • annotatively
  • annunciative
  • anticipative
  • anticreative
  • antireactive
  • antivenereal
  • antivenomous
  • appellatived
  • apperceptive
  • applausively
  • appointively
  • appositively
  • appreciative
  • apprehensive
  • aquativeness
  • archdeceiver

13 letter words

  • abstractively
  • accommodative
  • acculturative
  • acquisitively
  • addictiveness
  • adhesivemeter
  • adumbratively
  • adversatively
  • affirmatively
  • agglomerative
  • agglutinative
  • aggregatively
  • alternatively
  • amplificative
  • animadversive
  • anniversalily
  • anniversaries
  • anniversarily
  • anticorrosive
  • antinarrative
  • antireductive
  • antireflexive
  • antisiccative
  • appellatively
  • applicatively
  • appropriative
  • approximative
  • archdetective
  • aregenerative
  • argumentative
  • assassinative
  • assentiveness
  • assertiveness
  • associatively
  • assortatively
  • attentiveness
  • attributively
  • authoritative
  • autodigestive
  • autoeducative
  • autoinductive

14 letter words

  • absorptiveness
  • abstersiveness
  • accumulatively
  • accusativeness
  • administrative
  • adsorptiveness
  • affinitatively
  • affrontiveness
  • aggressiveness
  • alimentatively
  • alimentiveness
  • alliteratively
  • amelioratively
  • annotativeness
  • antiaggressive
  • anticipatively
  • anticogitative
  • anticonvulsive
  • anticorrosives
  • anticreatively
  • antidepressive
  • antiderivative
  • antiexpressive
  • antimedicative
  • antiproductive
  • antivermicular
  • apperceptively
  • appetitiveness
  • appreciatively
  • apprehensively
  • asseveratively
  • assumptiveness
  • astrictiveness
  • attractiveness
  • augmentatively
  • autoregressive
  • autoregulative
  • autosuggestive

15 letter words

  • abstractiveness
  • accommodatively
  • acquisitiveness
  • affirmativeness
  • agglutinatively
  • alternativeness
  • anniversariness
  • anticoagulative
  • anticommutative
  • anticompetitive
  • anticorrosively
  • antiprogressive
  • appellativeness
  • approbativeness
  • approximatively
  • argumentatively
  • associativeness
  • attributiveness
  • authoritatively
  • autoprogressive

16 letter words

  • accumulativeness
  • administratively
  • alimentativeness
  • alliterativeness
  • antiaggressively
  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • anticreativeness
  • antiexpressively
  • antifermentative
  • antihypertensive
  • antiproductively
  • antiputrefactive
  • appreciativeness
  • apprehensiveness
  • assimilativeness
  • automanipulative

17 letter words

  • accommodativeness
  • animadversiveness
  • antiagglutinative
  • anticonfederative
  • anticorrosiveness
  • antihypertensives
  • appropriativeness
  • approximativeness
  • argumentativeness
  • authoritativeness

18 letter words

  • antiaggressiveness
  • anticonservatively
  • antiexpressiveness
  • antiproductiveness
  • archrepresentative

20 letter words

  • anticonservativeness

In total, how many words are there using this list?
You can pick from 409 words.

What's the highest scoring word you can play in Scrabble ?
As there are a massive 409 entries, we would suggest opting for 'aquiver' scoring 19 points in total.

How many letters are in the largest word on this list?
'Anticonservativeness'

What's an unusual word from all the combinations available on this page?
You can choose a handful of unusual words on this page, however our favorite word is 'abirritative'. 'Abirritative' is defined as "Characterized by abirritation or debility.", according to the dictionary.

Which word that starts with 'a' and includes 'ive' is the most popular word in the dictionary?
Ranking as the 916th most popular word, you'll want to make sure you've got 'arrived' committed to memory.