Words that contain 'a' and end in 'ive'


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5 letter words

  • alive
  • naive
  • waive

6 letter words

  • active
  • argive
  • arrive
  • dative
  • glaive
  • lative
  • native
  • sative

7 letter words

  • abusive
  • aestive
  • amative
  • amusive
  • archive
  • ascrive
  • athrive
  • captive
  • elative
  • evasive
  • factive
  • flative
  • hastive
  • lawgive
  • massive
  • passive
  • realive
  • stative
  • suasive
  • tactive
  • tardive
  • unalive
  • unnaive

8 letter words

  • abditive
  • abessive
  • ablative
  • aborsive
  • abortive
  • abrasive
  • accusive
  • adaptive
  • additive
  • adessive
  • adhesive
  • adoptive
  • adustive
  • advisive
  • agentive
  • allative
  • allusive
  • annexive
  • arrosive
  • auditive
  • aversive
  • avertive
  • boastive
  • caritive
  • celative
  • coactive
  • conative
  • creative
  • curative
  • delative
  • dilative
  • donative
  • durative
  • enactive
  • equative
  • ergative
  • exactive
  • fixative
  • floative
  • ideative
  • illative
  • inactive
  • innative
  • invasive
  • jurative

9 letter words

  • abjective
  • acceptive
  • accessive
  • accretive
  • aconative
  • acurative
  • addictive
  • adductive
  • adjective
  • adjustive
  • admissive
  • advancive
  • advective
  • adventive
  • adversive
  • affective
  • agitative
  • animative
  • aperitive
  • appeasive
  • applosive
  • appulsive
  • arrestive
  • ascensive
  • aspersive
  • assausive
  • assentive
  • assertive
  • assistive
  • assortive
  • assuasive
  • attentive
  • attestive
  • attritive
  • avocative
  • awunctive
  • calmative
  • cantative
  • caressive
  • causative
  • cessative
  • clamative
  • collative
  • combative
  • corrasive

10 letter words

  • abdicative
  • aberrative
  • abjunctive
  • abnegative
  • abrogative
  • absolutive
  • absorptive
  • abstersive
  • accusative
  • acervative
  • adaptative
  • adequative
  • adjunctive
  • admirative
  • admonitive
  • adoptative
  • adsorptive
  • advocative
  • affinitive
  • afflictive
  • affrontive
  • aggressive
  • airbrasive
  • alimentive
  • allocutive
  • alterative
  • ambulative
  • ampliative
  • amputative
  • annotative
  • apodictive
  • apperceive
  • appetitive
  • applausive
  • appointive
  • appositive
  • appraisive
  • arrogative
  • ascriptive
  • assaultive
  • assumptive
  • astrictive
  • astructive
  • attemptive
  • attractive

11 letter words

  • abstractive
  • acetylative
  • acquisitive
  • adscriptive
  • adumbrative
  • adversative
  • affirmative
  • afformative
  • affricative
  • aggravative
  • aggregative
  • alleviative
  • altercative
  • alternative
  • ambiversive
  • amplicative
  • anoxidative
  • antierosive
  • antitussive
  • appellative
  • applicative
  • approbative
  • arbitrative
  • argumentive
  • assertative
  • associative
  • assortative
  • attenuative
  • attestative
  • attributive
  • autoceptive
  • benefactive
  • calculative
  • calefactive
  • captivative
  • carminative
  • castigative
  • celebrative
  • charitative
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • coadunative
  • coagulative
  • cohortative
  • colligative

12 letter words

  • abirritative
  • accelerative
  • accompletive
  • accumulative
  • adjudicative
  • affinitative
  • albificative
  • alimentative
  • alliterative
  • amalgamative
  • ameliorative
  • annihilative
  • annunciative
  • anticipative
  • anticreative
  • antireactive
  • apperceptive
  • appreciative
  • apprehensive
  • architective
  • articulative
  • asphyxiative
  • asseverative
  • assimilative
  • augmentative
  • auscultative
  • autopositive
  • birefractive
  • calumniative
  • capacitative
  • chylifactive
  • cinenegative
  • colliquative
  • combinantive
  • comfortative
  • commentative
  • compellative
  • compensative
  • complaintive
  • complicative
  • compulsative
  • conciliative
  • condensative
  • confirmative
  • congregative

13 letter words

  • accommodative
  • acculturative
  • agglomerative
  • agglutinative
  • amplificative
  • animadversive
  • anticorrosive
  • antinarrative
  • antireductive
  • antireflexive
  • antisiccative
  • appropriative
  • approximative
  • archdetective
  • aregenerative
  • argumentative
  • assassinative
  • authoritative
  • autodigestive
  • autoeducative
  • autoinductive
  • certificative
  • cirrostrative
  • coalternative
  • collaborative
  • commemorative
  • commiserative
  • communicative
  • concentrative
  • confederative
  • configurative
  • conflagrative
  • considerative
  • consolidative
  • contaminative
  • contemplative
  • contraceptive
  • contradictive
  • corroborative
  • counteractive
  • decorrugative
  • demonstrative
  • denumerantive
  • deteriorative
  • determinative

14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antiaggressive
  • anticogitative
  • anticonvulsive
  • antidepressive
  • antiderivative
  • antiexpressive
  • antimedicative
  • antiproductive
  • autoregressive
  • autoregulative
  • autosuggestive
  • conglomerative
  • conglutinative
  • consubstantive
  • contrapositive
  • defibrillative
  • disaffirmative
  • disaggregative
  • disapprobative
  • disciplinative
  • discriminative
  • disintegrative
  • fructificative
  • immunoreactive
  • inappreciative
  • inapprehensive
  • intercausative
  • interpervasive
  • interpretative
  • misinformative
  • multiplicative
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonapplicative
  • nonassociative
  • nonattributive
  • noncalculative
  • noncoagulative
  • noncombinative
  • noncommutative
  • nonconnotative
  • noncontrastive
  • noncooperative
  • noncorporative
  • noncorrelative

15 letter words

  • anticoagulative
  • anticommutative
  • anticompetitive
  • antiprogressive
  • autoprogressive
  • cirrocumulative
  • complementative
  • complimentative
  • cosignificative
  • decontaminative
  • differentiative
  • disassimilative
  • electronegative
  • excommunicative
  • exemplificative
  • experimentative
  • inauthoritative
  • incommunicative
  • indeterminative
  • insignificative
  • instrumentative
  • interderivative
  • intergenerative
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • neoconservative
  • nonaccelerative
  • nonaccumulative
  • nonadjudicative
  • nonalliterative
  • nonanticipative
  • nonappreciative
  • nonapprehensive
  • nonarticulative
  • nonassimilative
  • nonaugmentative
  • noncompensative
  • nonconfirmative
  • noncongregative
  • nonconservative
  • nonconsultative
  • nondebilitative
  • nondegenerative
  • nondenunciative
  • nondepreciative

16 letter words

  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • antifermentative
  • antihypertensive
  • antiputrefactive
  • automanipulative
  • consignificative
  • contraindicative
  • counternarrative
  • hemagglutinative
  • hyperspeculative
  • hypersuperlative
  • homofermentative
  • indiscriminative
  • interpenetrative
  • isoagglutinative
  • magnetostrictive
  • mechanoreceptive
  • nonagglomerative
  • nonagglutinative
  • nonappropriative
  • nonargumentative
  • nonauthoritative
  • noncollaborative
  • noncommemorative
  • noncommiserative
  • noncommunicative
  • nonconcentrative
  • noncontaminative
  • noncontemplative
  • noncorroborative
  • noncounteractive
  • nondemonstrative
  • nondeterminative
  • nonexterminative
  • nonincorporative
  • noninterpolative
  • nonprecipitative
  • nonresuscitative
  • nonsignificative
  • nontranscriptive
  • nontransgressive
  • overappreciative
  • overapprehensive
  • overconservative

17 letter words

  • antiagglutinative
  • anticonfederative
  • contradistinctive
  • counterattractive
  • haemagglutinative
  • hyperconservative
  • maladministrative
  • misrepresentative
  • neurodegenerative
  • nonadministrative
  • nondiscriminative
  • noninterpretative
  • nonmultiplicative
  • nonrepresentative
  • overargumentative
  • overcommunicative
  • overdemonstrative
  • overgesticulative
  • photodissociative
  • photphotonegative
  • preadministrative
  • preinterpretative
  • pseudoapplicative
  • pseudolegislative
  • semicommunicative
  • subadministrative
  • subtersuperlative
  • superconservative
  • superregenerative
  • ultraconservative
  • unprognosticative

18 letter words

  • archrepresentative
  • heterofermentative
  • intercommunicative
  • myeloproliferative
  • nonprognosticative
  • omnirepresentative
  • overrepresentative
  • pseudoapprehensive
  • pseudoconservative
  • transubstantiative
  • unltraconservative

19 letter words

  • erythrodegenerative

How many letters are in the largest word from this page?
The longest word is 19 characters long, which is 'erythrodegenerative'.

Which word that has 'a' in and ends with 'ive' is the most common word in the dictionary?
The most common word for the combination you searched is 'native'.

What is an unusual word from this list?
The most weird word based on a recently conducted poll is 'excitative'. It means "Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. Barrow.".

What's the highest scoring word you can play in Scrabble ?
Since there are a plethora of words to pick from, we'd suggest selecting 'fixative' scoring 21 points.

In total, how many words are available using this list?
1,714 words!