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


With countless choices (3,104 entries), there's absolutely no limit.

3 letter words

  • ive

4 letter words

  • cive
  • dive
  • five
  • give
  • hive
  • jive
  • live
  • rive
  • vive
  • wive

5 letter words

  • alive
  • chive
  • clive
  • drive
  • kirve
  • knive
  • lieve
  • naive
  • nieve
  • ogive
  • olive
  • reive
  • shive
  • sieve
  • skive
  • slive
  • stive
  • swive
  • tirve
  • waive
  • wrive

6 letter words

  • active
  • argive
  • arrive
  • belive
  • bileve
  • brieve
  • chiave
  • chieve
  • cruive
  • dative
  • derive
  • endive
  • enlive
  • enrive
  • essive
  • estive
  • fixive
  • fotive
  • glaive
  • grieve
  • impave
  • incave
  • inhive
  • inwove
  • lative
  • lixive
  • luxive
  • motive
  • musive
  • mutive
  • native
  • nocive
  • optive
  • ortive
  • redive
  • regive
  • relive
  • revive
  • sairve
  • sative
  • scrive
  • shrive
  • strive
  • thieve
  • thrive

7 letter words

  • abusive
  • achieve
  • aestive
  • airwave
  • amative
  • amusive
  • archive
  • ascrive
  • athrive
  • beehive
  • believe
  • bihalve
  • bivalve
  • bonnive
  • captive
  • censive
  • chetive
  • connive
  • convive
  • corrive
  • costive
  • cresive
  • cultive
  • cursive
  • deceive
  • declive
  • deprive
  • dislive
  • dislove
  • dissave
  • educive
  • elative
  • elecive
  • elusive
  • emotive
  • emptive
  • emusive
  • erosive
  • evasive
  • factive
  • fensive
  • festive
  • fictive
  • fissive
  • flative

8 letter words

  • abditive
  • abessive
  • ablative
  • aborsive
  • abortive
  • abrasive
  • accusive
  • adaptive
  • additive
  • adessive
  • adhesive
  • adoptive
  • adustive
  • advisive
  • agentive
  • aggrieve
  • allative
  • allusive
  • annexive
  • arrosive
  • auditive
  • aurilave
  • aversive
  • avertive
  • boastive
  • caritive
  • celative
  • coactive
  • coderive
  • coercive
  • cohesive
  • conative
  • conceive
  • conscive
  • contrive
  • cooptive
  • creative
  • crescive
  • curative
  • decisive
  • deducive
  • delative
  • deletive
  • delusive
  • denotive

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
  • biconcave
  • bijective
  • biplosive
  • brainwave
  • calmative
  • cantative
  • caressive
  • causative
  • cessative

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
  • architrave
  • arrogative
  • ascriptive
  • assaultive
  • assumptive
  • astrictive
  • astructive
  • attemptive

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
  • beneceptive
  • benedictive
  • benefactive
  • calculative
  • calefactive
  • captivative
  • carminative
  • castigative
  • celebrative
  • charitative
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • circumvolve
  • coadunative

12 letter words

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

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
  • chemisorptive
  • chemosorptive
  • circumventive
  • cirrostrative
  • coalternative
  • collaborative
  • commemorative
  • commiserative
  • communicative
  • comprehensive
  • concentrative
  • condescensive
  • confederative
  • configurative
  • conflagrative
  • considerative
  • consolidative
  • contaminative
  • contemplative
  • contraceptive
  • contradictive
  • corresponsive
  • corroborative

14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antiaggressive
  • anticogitative
  • anticonvulsive
  • antidepressive
  • antiderivative
  • antiexpressive
  • antimedicative
  • antiproductive
  • autoregressive
  • autoregulative
  • autosuggestive
  • chemoreceptive
  • chemosensitive
  • circumspective
  • conglomerative
  • conglutinative
  • consubstantive
  • contrapositive
  • cryoprotective
  • defibrillative
  • disaffirmative
  • disaggregative
  • disapprobative
  • disciplinative
  • discriminative
  • disintegrative
  • fructificative
  • hyperexcursive
  • hypernutritive
  • hyperobtrusive
  • hypersensitive
  • immunoreactive
  • inappreciative
  • inapprehensive
  • intercausative
  • interdiffusive
  • interobjective
  • interpervasive
  • interpretative
  • interstinctive
  • irreproductive
  • misdescriptive
  • misinformative
  • misinstructive

15 letter words

  • anticoagulative
  • anticommutative
  • anticompetitive
  • antiprogressive
  • autoprogressive
  • circumscriptive
  • cirrocumulative
  • complementative
  • complimentative
  • cosignificative
  • decontaminative
  • differentiative
  • disassimilative
  • electronegative
  • electropositive
  • excommunicative
  • exemplificative
  • experimentative
  • inauthoritative
  • incommunicative
  • incomprehensive
  • indeterminative
  • insignificative
  • instrumentative
  • interderivative
  • intergenerative
  • interinhibitive
  • interresponsive
  • intersubjective
  • intussusceptive
  • locodescriptive
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • misconstructive
  • neoconservative
  • nonaccelerative
  • nonaccumulative
  • nonadjudicative
  • nonalliterative
  • nonanticipative
  • nonappreciative
  • nonapprehensive
  • nonarticulative
  • nonassimilative
  • nonaugmentative

16 letter words

  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • antifermentative
  • antihypertensive
  • antiputrefactive
  • automanipulative
  • consignificative
  • contraindicative
  • counterintuitive
  • counterinvective
  • counternarrative
  • counteroffensive
  • electroreceptive
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • hemagglutinative
  • hyperspeculative
  • hypersuperlative
  • homofermentative
  • indiscriminative
  • interdestructive
  • interpenetrative
  • isoagglutinative
  • magnetostrictive
  • mechanoreceptive
  • nonagglomerative
  • nonagglutinative
  • nonappropriative
  • nonargumentative
  • nonauthoritative
  • noncollaborative
  • noncommemorative
  • noncommiserative
  • noncommunicative
  • noncomprehensive
  • nonconcentrative
  • noncontaminative
  • noncontemplative
  • noncorroborative
  • noncounteractive
  • nondemonstrative
  • nondeterminative
  • nonexterminative
  • nonincorporative
  • noninterpolative

17 letter words

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

18 letter words

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

19 letter words

  • erythrodegenerative
  • thermoelectromotive

In Scrabble, what's the highest number of points possible from words containing 'i' and ending with 've'?
Given there are an extensive 3,104 entries, you should go for 'fixative' which scores 21 points.

How many characters are in the biggest word on this list?
The largest word is 19 characters, which is 'erythrodegenerative'.

What is the maximum number of words one is able to make using this list?
You can choose from 3,104 entries using our page of words containing 'i' and ending with 've'.

What's an interesting word on this page?
Undoubtedly one of the most unusual words from this page is 'ministrative'. It is defined as "Serving to aid; ministering.".

What's the most popular word that has 'i' in and ends with 've' in the dictionary?
We've discovered that 'give' is the 181st most common word.