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


This is a popular word choice, to such an extent there exists over 100 words to select.

6 letter words

  • fixive
  • inhive
  • lixive
  • visive

7 letter words

  • dislive
  • fictive
  • fissive
  • initive
  • misgive
  • mislive
  • missive
  • tuitive
  • unitive
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8 letter words

  • abditive
  • additive
  • advisive
  • auditive
  • caritive
  • decisive
  • derisive
  • desitive
  • dilative
  • dilutive
  • discrive
  • divisive
  • emissive
  • evincive
  • excitive
  • finitive
  • fixative
  • fruitive
  • fugitive
  • genitive
  • ideative
  • ignitive
  • illative
  • illusive
  • immotive
  • inactive
  • incisive
  • incitive
  • inducive
  • indutive
  • inessive
  • infusive
  • inhesive
  • innative
  • invasive
  • lenitive
  • ligative
  • limitive
  • misdrive
  • monitive
  • omissive
  • positive
  • punitive
  • quietive
  • recidive
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9 letter words

  • addictive
  • admissive
  • agitative
  • animative
  • aperitive
  • assistive
  • attritive
  • bijective
  • biplosive
  • cognitive
  • collisive
  • creditive
  • demissive
  • depictive
  • desistive
  • deviative
  • dictative
  • didactive
  • diffusive
  • digestive
  • dimensive
  • directive
  • divertive
  • divorcive
  • divulsive
  • dormitive
  • expiative
  • factitive
  • fricative
  • gignitive
  • illapsive
  • imitative
  • immensive
  • immersive
  • impactive
  • impartive
  • impassive
  • impletive
  • implosive
  • impulsive
  • incensive
  • incentive
  • inceptive
  • inclusive
  • incursive
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10 letter words

  • abdicative
  • admirative
  • admonitive
  • affinitive
  • afflictive
  • airbrasive
  • alimentive
  • ampliative
  • apodictive
  • appetitive
  • appointive
  • appositive
  • appraisive
  • ascriptive
  • astrictive
  • capacitive
  • capitative
  • caritative
  • coercitive
  • cogitative
  • cohibitive
  • comitative
  • commissive
  • convictive
  • dedicative
  • definitive
  • depositive
  • derivative
  • digressive
  • dilatative
  • diminutive
  • disclosive
  • discretive
  • discursive
  • discussive
  • disdeceive
  • disgracive
  • dismissive
  • dispansive
  • dispensive
  • dispersive
  • disportive
  • disruptive
  • dissective
  • dissentive
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11 letter words

  • acquisitive
  • adscriptive
  • affirmative
  • affricative
  • alleviative
  • ambiversive
  • amplicative
  • anoxidative
  • antierosive
  • antitussive
  • applicative
  • arbitrative
  • associative
  • attributive
  • benedictive
  • captivative
  • carminative
  • castigative
  • charitative
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • colligative
  • combinative
  • comminative
  • communitive
  • competitive
  • compositive
  • conflictive
  • criminative
  • culminative
  • cultivative
  • deglutitive
  • delineative
  • denigrative
  • deoxidative
  • deprivative
  • descriptive
  • desiccative
  • designative
  • diapositive
  • diffractive
  • discerptive
  • discoursive
  • disillusive
  • disjunctive
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12 letter words

  • abirritative
  • adjudicative
  • affinitative
  • albificative
  • alimentative
  • alliterative
  • ameliorative
  • annihilative
  • annunciative
  • anticipative
  • anticreative
  • antireactive
  • appreciative
  • architective
  • articulative
  • asphyxiative
  • assimilative
  • autopositive
  • birefractive
  • calumniative
  • capacitative
  • chylifactive
  • cinenegative
  • circumscrive
  • cognoscitive
  • colliquative
  • combinantive
  • complaintive
  • complicative
  • conciliative
  • confirmative
  • conscriptive
  • consociative
  • conspirative
  • constitutive
  • constrictive
  • continuative
  • contributive
  • coordinative
  • debilitative
  • deliberative
  • delimitative
  • denominative
  • denunciative
  • deoppilative
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13 letter words

  • agglutinative
  • amplificative
  • animadversive
  • anticorrosive
  • antinarrative
  • antireductive
  • antireflexive
  • antisiccative
  • appropriative
  • approximative
  • assassinative
  • authoritative
  • autodigestive
  • autoinductive
  • certificative
  • chemisorptive
  • circumventive
  • cirrostrative
  • commiserative
  • communicative
  • configurative
  • considerative
  • consolidative
  • contaminative
  • contradictive
  • deteriorative
  • determinative
  • disconnective
  • discontentive
  • disfigurative
  • disrespective
  • dissemilative
  • disseminative
  • dissimilative
  • dissimulative
  • domesticative
  • equilibrative
  • exterminative
  • extrapunitive
  • gesticulative
  • hallucinative
  • hydropositive
  • hyposensitive
  • idiorepulsive
  • impenetrative
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14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antiaggressive
  • anticogitative
  • anticonvulsive
  • antidepressive
  • antiderivative
  • antiexpressive
  • antimedicative
  • antiproductive
  • chemosensitive
  • circumspective
  • conglutinative
  • contrapositive
  • defibrillative
  • disaffirmative
  • disaggregative
  • disapprobative
  • disciplinative
  • discriminative
  • disintegrative
  • fructificative
  • hypernutritive
  • hypersensitive
  • immunoreactive
  • inappreciative
  • inapprehensive
  • intercausative
  • interdiffusive
  • interobjective
  • interpervasive
  • interpretative
  • interstinctive
  • irreproductive
  • misdescriptive
  • misinformative
  • misinstructive
  • multiplicative
  • nociperceptive
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonapplicative
  • nonassociative
  • nonattributive
  • noncombinative
  • noncompetitive
  • nonconflictive
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15 letter words

  • anticoagulative
  • anticommutative
  • anticompetitive
  • antiprogressive
  • circumscriptive
  • cirrocumulative
  • complimentative
  • cosignificative
  • decontaminative
  • differentiative
  • disassimilative
  • electropositive
  • excommunicative
  • exemplificative
  • experimentative
  • inauthoritative
  • incommunicative
  • incomprehensive
  • indeterminative
  • insignificative
  • instrumentative
  • interderivative
  • intergenerative
  • interinhibitive
  • interresponsive
  • intersubjective
  • intussusceptive
  • locodescriptive
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • misconstructive
  • nonadjudicative
  • nonalliterative
  • nonanticipative
  • nonappreciative
  • nonarticulative
  • nonassimilative
  • nonconfirmative
  • nonconstrictive
  • noncontributive
  • nondebilitative
  • nondenunciative
  • nondepreciative
  • nondistributive
  • nonemancipative
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16 letter words

  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • antifermentative
  • antihypertensive
  • antiputrefactive
  • automanipulative
  • consignificative
  • contraindicative
  • counterintuitive
  • counterinvective
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • hemagglutinative
  • indiscriminative
  • interdestructive
  • interpenetrative
  • isoagglutinative
  • magnetostrictive
  • nonagglutinative
  • nonappropriative
  • nonauthoritative
  • noncommiserative
  • noncommunicative
  • noncontaminative
  • nondeterminative
  • nonexterminative
  • nonincorporative
  • noninterpolative
  • nonintrospective
  • nonprecipitative
  • nonresuscitative
  • nonsignificative
  • nontranscriptive
  • overappreciative
  • overillustrative
  • parthenogenitive
  • philoprogenitive
  • predeterminative
  • presignificative
  • quadriderivative
  • resinoextractive
  • semiconservative
  • semiquantitative
  • superinquisitive
  • unadministrative
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17 letter words

  • antiagglutinative
  • anticonfederative
  • contradistinctive
  • electrodispersive
  • haemagglutinative
  • immunosuppressive
  • maladministrative
  • misrepresentative
  • nonadministrative
  • nondiscriminative
  • noninterpretative
  • nonmultiplicative
  • overcommunicative
  • overgesticulative
  • photodissociative
  • preadministrative
  • preinterpretative
  • pseudoapplicative
  • pseudocompetitive
  • pseudolegislative
  • semicommunicative
  • subadministrative
  • unprognosticative
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18 letter words

  • intercommunicative
  • myeloproliferative
  • noncircumscriptive
  • nonprognosticative
  • omnirepresentative
  • transubstantiative

What's the highest possible score you're able to get in Scrabble from this list of words that contain 'i' and end in 'ive'?
With an overwhelming 1,359 entries, your best option is to go for 'fixative' which scores 21 points in total.

Is there an example word from this page which might be deemed as unusual?
Arguably one of the most interesting words from this page is 'quantitive'. The dictionary defines it as "Estimable according to quantity; quantitative. Sir K. Digby.".

What's the longest word you can make from words that have 'i' in and end with 'ive'?
The largest word is 18 letters long, which is 'intercommunicative'.

How many words are there using the combination of letters requested?
You could derive 1,359 words from the combination of words that have 'i' in and end with 'ive'.

Is there a word on this page that jumps out as the most popular?
'Derivative' is the most popular word from this page, ranked 3896th most common word.

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Words that start with any two letters

  1. sr*
  2. sd*
  3. cf*
  4. em*
  5. al*
  6. tv*
  7. df*
  8. fl*
  9. yo*
  10. pe*
  11. cn*
  12. xx*
  13. br*
  14. cl*
  15. gl*
  16. it*
  17. ll*
  18. gi*
  19. oh*
  20. uk*
  21. ap*
  22. ac*
  23. ol*
  24. jg*
  25. nc*
  26. jn*
  27. yw*
  28. kj*
  29. zn*
  30. mu*
  31. vg*
  32. iy*
  33. xy*
  34. oj*
  35. yq*
  36. wi*
  37. np*
  38. kp*
  39. mf*
  40. ar*
  41. ng*
  42. jr*
  43. is*
  44. oo*
  45. fe*
  46. ep*
  47. ua*
  48. gs*
  49. qr*
  50. pd*

Words with any two letters in them

  1. *zk*
  2. *dm*
  3. *zp*
  4. *ux*
  5. *ns*
  6. *vw*
  7. *ds*
  8. *yg*
  9. *dr*
  10. *gj*
  11. *zd*
  12. *lg*
  13. *dd*
  14. *fv*
  15. *sl*
  16. *jg*
  17. *hk*
  18. *zn*
  19. *xs*
  20. *ce*
  21. *ix*
  22. *tv*
  23. *ow*
  24. *xq*
  25. *ey*
  26. *gy*
  27. *ro*
  28. *xn*
  29. *xe*
  30. *lp*
  31. *ps*
  32. *hr*
  33. *dq*
  34. *sk*
  35. *fo*
  36. *zb*
  37. *hw*
  38. *uh*
  39. *zv*
  40. *xg*
  41. *ni*
  42. *fu*
  43. *rz*
  44. *fi*
  45. *wc*
  46. *gb*
  47. *yx*
  48. *sj*
  49. *ky*
  50. *vv*

Words where the second letter is ... and the fourth letter is ...

  1. _y_x*
  2. _y_k*
  3. _b_u*
  4. _j_r*
  5. _b_v*
  6. _u_n*
  7. _k_h*
  8. _o_v*
  9. _p_e*
  10. _z_i*
  11. _v_r*
  12. _k_z*
  13. _f_y*
  14. _m_h*
  15. _k_w*
  16. _p_f*
  17. _l_y*
  18. _d_s*
  19. _l_w*
  20. _j_d*
  21. _r_w*
  22. _p_b*
  23. _w_r*
  24. _r_r*
  25. _m_u*
  26. _u_j*
  27. _y_c*
  28. _h_x*
  29. _k_e*
  30. _r_n*
  31. _l_v*
  32. _f_n*
  33. _u_i*
  34. _c_s*
  35. _n_b*
  36. _f_r*
  37. _v_y*
  38. _d_m*
  39. _o_t*
  40. _r_a*
  41. _g_c*
  42. _e_b*
  43. _f_g*
  44. _u_b*
  45. _s_y*
  46. _k_o*
  47. _t_k*
  48. _u_a*
  49. _y_g*
  50. _n_y*