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


This is a popular choice of words, so much in fact there are over 100 words from the dictionary to consider. Have fun!

4 letter words

  • elve
  • lave
  • leve
  • live
  • love

5 letter words

  • alive
  • belve
  • calve
  • clave
  • cleve
  • clive
  • clove
  • delve
  • eleve
  • glave
  • glove
  • halve
  • helve
  • larve
  • leave
  • lieve
  • loave
  • olive
  • salve
  • slave
  • slive
  • solve
  • valve
  • wolve

6 letter words

  • alcove
  • alleve
  • beleve
  • belive
  • belove
  • bileve
  • cleave
  • colove
  • enlive
  • evolve
  • exolve
  • glaive
  • gleave
  • lative
  • lixive
  • luxive
  • molave
  • polyve
  • releve
  • relive
  • relove
  • shelve
  • sleave
  • sleeve
  • twelve
  • unlive
  • unlove
  • whelve

7 letter words

  • absolve
  • bedelve
  • beleave
  • believe
  • beslave
  • bihalve
  • bivalve
  • cultive
  • declive
  • devolve
  • dislive
  • dislove
  • effluve
  • elative
  • elecive
  • elusive
  • enclave
  • enslave
  • exclave
  • exsolve
  • flative
  • flexive
  • fluxive
  • forlive
  • inclave
  • involve
  • lawgive
  • lessive
  • longeve
  • mislive
  • neslave
  • nonlive
  • obvolve
  • outlive
  • outlove
  • plosive
  • pulsive
  • realive
  • reglove
  • relieve
  • repleve
  • resolve
  • revolve
  • unalive
  • undelve

8 letter words

  • ablative
  • allative
  • allusive
  • aurilave
  • besleeve
  • celative
  • coevolve
  • conclave
  • convolve
  • delative
  • deletive
  • delusive
  • dilative
  • dilutive
  • disleave
  • dissolve
  • eyesalve
  • elective
  • emulsive
  • epivalve
  • filesave
  • floative
  • forelive
  • forleave
  • foxglove
  • illative
  • illusive
  • ladylove
  • laxative
  • legative
  • lenitive
  • ligative
  • limitive
  • lipsalve
  • locative
  • maladive
  • nonvalve
  • oilstove
  • overlave
  • overlive
  • overlove
  • palative
  • palstave
  • persolve
  • plausive

9 letter words

  • afterlove
  • applosive
  • appulsive
  • autoclave
  • autovalve
  • biplosive
  • bondslave
  • calmative
  • champleve
  • clamative
  • coinvolve
  • collative
  • collisive
  • collusive
  • corevolve
  • depletive
  • divulsive
  • drawglove
  • elocutive
  • emulative
  • equipluve
  • equivalve
  • evolutive
  • exclusive
  • expletive
  • explosive
  • expulsive
  • flotative
  • footglove
  • forcleave
  • hypovalve
  • illapsive
  • impletive
  • implosive
  • impulsive
  • inclusive
  • inflative
  • inflexive
  • influxive
  • isolative
  • jackslave
  • lambitive
  • lamentive
  • landgrave
  • landreeve

10 letter words

  • absolutive
  • afflictive
  • alimentive
  • allocutive
  • alterative
  • ambulative
  • ampliative
  • applausive
  • assaultive
  • babblative
  • collective
  • colorative
  • completive
  • complexive
  • compulsive
  • conclusive
  • consultive
  • convulsive
  • copulative
  • corelative
  • cumulative
  • deconvolve
  • deflective
  • delegative
  • desolative
  • devolutive
  • dilatative
  • disbelieve
  • disclosive
  • disenslave
  • disinvolve
  • ebullitive
  • elongative
  • evaluative
  • exaltative
  • exploitive
  • faculative
  • famulative
  • floatative
  • foresleeve
  • inflective
  • inflictive
  • interfluve
  • interleave
  • intervolve

11 letter words

  • acetylative
  • alleviative
  • altercative
  • alternative
  • amplicative
  • appellative
  • applicative
  • calculative
  • calefactive
  • celebrative
  • circulative
  • circumvolve
  • coagulative
  • coexclusive
  • colligative
  • collocative
  • colourative
  • commulative
  • conflictive
  • congelative
  • convolutive
  • correlative
  • counterlove
  • culminative
  • cultivative
  • declarative
  • deglutitive
  • delineative
  • disillusive
  • dissolutive
  • duplicative
  • ejaculative
  • elaborative
  • eliminative
  • elucidative
  • exclamative
  • exculpative
  • exfoliative
  • explanative
  • explicative
  • explorative
  • facultative
  • glutinative
  • granulative
  • humiliative

12 letter words

  • accelerative
  • accompletive
  • accumulative
  • albificative
  • alimentative
  • alliterative
  • amalgamative
  • ameliorative
  • angusticlave
  • annihilative
  • articulative
  • assimilative
  • auscultative
  • calumniative
  • chylifactive
  • colliquative
  • compellative
  • complaintive
  • complicative
  • compulsative
  • conciliative
  • consultative
  • debilitative
  • deliberative
  • delimitative
  • deoppilative
  • depopulative
  • dissolvative
  • edulcorative
  • emasculative
  • exhilarative
  • exploitative
  • exulcerative
  • facilitative
  • ferroinclave
  • flagellative
  • illucidative
  • illuminative
  • illustrative
  • inconclusive
  • infiltrative
  • inflammative
  • intellective
  • interinvolve
  • intropulsive

13 letter words

  • acculturative
  • agglomerative
  • agglutinative
  • amplificative
  • antireflexive
  • coalternative
  • collaborative
  • conflagrative
  • consolidative
  • contemplative
  • dissemilative
  • dissimilative
  • dissimulative
  • electromotive
  • enculturative
  • equilibrative
  • expostulative
  • extrapolative
  • gesticulative
  • hallucinative
  • idiorepulsive
  • induplicative
  • intercalative
  • interlocutive
  • interpolative
  • noncollective
  • noncompulsive
  • nonconclusive
  • noncumulative
  • nondeflective
  • nonlaminative
  • nonlimitative
  • nonpalliative
  • nonreflective
  • nonregulative
  • nonsimulative
  • nontolerative
  • overinclusive
  • overinflative
  • overtalkative
  • philogenitive
  • proliferative
  • qualificative
  • reduplicative
  • repullulative

14 letter words

  • anticonvulsive
  • autoregulative
  • conglomerative
  • conglutinative
  • defibrillative
  • disciplinative
  • electroengrave
  • multiplicative
  • nonapplicative
  • noncalculative
  • noncoagulative
  • nonconflictive
  • noncorrelative
  • nondeclarative
  • nondelineative
  • nonduplicative
  • nonelaborative
  • noneliminative
  • nonelucidative
  • nonexplanative
  • nonexplicative
  • nonexplorative
  • nonfacultative
  • nonimplicative
  • noninoculative
  • nonlegislative
  • nonqualitative
  • nonspeculative
  • nonstimulative
  • nonventilative
  • overreflective
  • postconvulsive
  • prelegislative
  • prolegislative
  • recapitulative
  • reconciliative
  • rehabilitative
  • simplificative
  • superinclusive
  • ultraexcessive
  • ultraexclusive
  • ultrainclusive
  • unaccelerative
  • unaccumulative
  • unalimentative

15 letter words

  • anticoagulative
  • cirrocumulative
  • complementative
  • complimentative
  • disassimilative
  • electronegative
  • electropositive
  • exemplificative
  • locodescriptive
  • nonaccelerative
  • nonaccumulative
  • nonalliterative
  • nonarticulative
  • nonassimilative
  • nonconsultative
  • nondebilitative
  • nonilluminative
  • nonillustrative
  • nonmanipulative
  • nonrecollective
  • overspeculative
  • overstimulative
  • phosphorylative
  • retroreflective
  • semilegislative
  • semispeculative
  • subarticulative
  • ultrapersuasive
  • unagglomerative
  • uncollaborative
  • uncontemplative
  • ungesticulative
  • uninterpolative

16 letter words

  • automanipulative
  • electroreceptive
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • hemagglutinative
  • hyperspeculative
  • hypersuperlative
  • isoagglutinative
  • nonagglomerative
  • nonagglutinative
  • noncollaborative
  • noncontemplative
  • noninterpolative
  • overillustrative
  • philoprogenitive
  • unconglutinative
  • unmultiplicative

17 letter words

  • antiagglutinative
  • electroconvulsive
  • electrodispersive
  • electropercussive
  • haemagglutinative
  • maladministrative
  • nonmultiplicative
  • overgesticulative
  • pseudoapplicative
  • pseudolegislative
  • subtersuperlative
  • ultraconservative

18 letter words

  • myeloproliferative
  • unltraconservative

19 letter words

  • thermoelectromotive

How many letters does the longest word on this page contain?
The longest word assembled by our team is 'thermoelectromotive'. It has 19 characters.

Is there an example of a word from this page of word that has 'l' in and ends with 've' which could be considered as interesting in any regard?
By far the most unusual word in this list is 'live'. The definition of 'live' is as follows: "1. To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus...".

How many words is it possible to make using the combination of letters specified?
You can select up to 791 entries for this page.

Is there a word on this page that stands out as the most popular?
The most popular word is 'love', which happens to be the 218th most popular word in this list.

In Scrabble, what's the best score you can get using this list of words that have 'l' in and end with 've'?
With the enormous number of words to pick from, we'd recommend picking 'foxglove' scoring 22 points overall.