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


This is a popular choice of words, to such an extent that there are exactly 583 entries to pick from. Have fun for the next hour!

6 letter words

  • motive
  • musive
  • mutive

7 letter words

  • amative
  • amusive
  • emotive
  • emptive
  • emusive
  • massive
  • misgive
  • mislive
  • missive

8 letter words

  • emissive
  • emulsive
  • immotive
  • limitive
  • maestive
  • maladive
  • misdrive
  • monitive
  • mutative
  • omissive
  • remotive
  • vomitive

9 letter words

  • admissive
  • animative
  • calmative
  • clamative
  • coemptive
  • combative
  • commotive
  • demissive
  • dimensive
  • dormitive
  • emanative
  • embracive
  • emulative
  • exemptive
  • formative
  • gemmative
  • humective
  • imitative
  • immensive
  • immersive
  • impactive
  • impartive
  • impassive
  • impletive
  • implosive
  • impulsive
  • lambitive
  • lamentive
  • mandative
  • mediative
  • migrative
  • minsitive
  • misderive
  • misthrive
  • normative
  • primitive
  • promotive
  • promptive
  • remissive
  • submotive
  • summative
  • unamative
  • unamusive
  • unemotive

10 letter words

  • admirative
  • admonitive
  • alimentive
  • ambulative
  • ampliative
  • amputative
  • assumptive
  • attemptive
  • augmentive
  • automative
  • automotive
  • combustive
  • comitative
  • commissive
  • compassive
  • completive
  • complexive
  • compulsive
  • cumulative
  • diminutive
  • dismissive
  • dominative
  • emigrative
  • estimative
  • famulative
  • fermentive
  • geminative
  • impeditive
  • imperative
  • impositive
  • impressive
  • impunitive
  • imputative
  • limitative
  • locomotive
  • luminative
  • macerative
  • manumotive
  • maturative
  • medicative
  • meditative
  • memorative
  • microdrive
  • misforgive
  • misreceive

11 letter words

  • adumbrative
  • affirmative
  • afformative
  • ambiversive
  • amplicative
  • argumentive
  • carminative
  • combinative
  • comminative
  • commulative
  • communitive
  • commutative
  • comparative
  • competitive
  • compositive
  • compressive
  • compunctive
  • computative
  • consumptive
  • criminative
  • culminative
  • deformative
  • demandative
  • efformative
  • eliminative
  • enumerative
  • examinative
  • exclamative
  • formicative
  • germinative
  • humiliative
  • imaginative
  • imbricative
  • impetrative
  • implicative
  • imprimitive
  • improbative
  • infirmative
  • informative
  • inimitative
  • irremissive
  • maladaptive
  • maledictive
  • mancipative
  • manifestive

12 letter words

  • accompletive
  • accumulative
  • alimentative
  • amalgamative
  • ameliorative
  • assimilative
  • augmentative
  • calumniative
  • circumscrive
  • combinantive
  • comfortative
  • commentative
  • compellative
  • compensative
  • complaintive
  • complicative
  • compulsative
  • confirmative
  • consummative
  • delimitative
  • denominative
  • denumerative
  • desquamative
  • emancipative
  • emasculative
  • excrementive
  • fermentative
  • hyperemotive
  • illuminative
  • imperceptive
  • imperfective
  • impregnative
  • inflammative
  • insubmissive
  • intempestive
  • intermissive
  • intromissive
  • magistrative
  • maladjustive
  • manipulative
  • mediopassive
  • ministrative
  • miseducative
  • modificative
  • neoformative

13 letter words

  • accommodative
  • agglomerative
  • amplificative
  • animadversive
  • approximative
  • argumentative
  • chemisorptive
  • chemosorptive
  • circumventive
  • commemorative
  • commiserative
  • communicative
  • comprehensive
  • contaminative
  • contemplative
  • decompressive
  • demonstrative
  • denumerantive
  • determinative
  • dissemilative
  • disseminative
  • dissimilative
  • dissimulative
  • domesticative
  • electromotive
  • exterminative
  • impenetrative
  • impersonative
  • improgressive
  • magnetomotive
  • magnificative
  • manifestative
  • metainfective
  • misexpressive
  • nonassumptive
  • nonautomotive
  • noncombustive
  • noncompulsive
  • noncumulative
  • nonimperative
  • nonimputative
  • nonlaminative
  • nonlimitative
  • nonmaturative
  • nonmedicative

14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antimedicative
  • chemoreceptive
  • chemosensitive
  • circumspective
  • conglomerative
  • disaffirmative
  • discriminative
  • immunoreactive
  • misdescriptive
  • misinformative
  • misinstructive
  • multiplicative
  • noncombinative
  • noncommutative
  • noncompetitive
  • noncompressive
  • nonconsumptive
  • noneliminative
  • nonenumerative
  • nongerminative
  • nonimbricative
  • nonimplicative
  • noninformative
  • nonpresumptive
  • nonstimulative
  • nonterminative
  • overassumptive
  • overpermissive
  • preaffirmative
  • primoprimitive
  • recommendative
  • retransmissive
  • semiexpositive
  • semifigurative
  • semiperceptive
  • semiproductive
  • semiprotective
  • simplificative
  • subimbricative
  • thigmonegative
  • thigmopositive
  • transformative
  • transmigrative
  • unaccumulative

15 letter words

  • anticommutative
  • anticompetitive
  • circumscriptive
  • cirrocumulative
  • complementative
  • complimentative
  • decontaminative
  • disassimilative
  • excommunicative
  • exemplificative
  • experimentative
  • incommunicative
  • incomprehensive
  • indeterminative
  • instrumentative
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • misconstructive
  • nonaccumulative
  • nonassimilative
  • nonaugmentative
  • noncompensative
  • nonconfirmative
  • nondesquamative
  • nonemancipative
  • nonfermentative
  • nonilluminative
  • nonmanipulative
  • nonmodificative
  • nonremunerative
  • overaffirmative
  • overcompetitive
  • overimaginative
  • overpresumptive
  • overstimulative
  • pseudoprimitive
  • semidestructive
  • semilegislative
  • seminvariantive
  • semiprogressive
  • semispeculative
  • subcompensative
  • thermosensitive
  • unagglomerative
  • unargumentative

16 letter words

  • antifermentative
  • automanipulative
  • hemagglutinative
  • homofermentative
  • indiscriminative
  • magnetostrictive
  • mechanoreceptive
  • nonagglomerative
  • nonargumentative
  • noncommemorative
  • noncommiserative
  • noncommunicative
  • noncomprehensive
  • noncontaminative
  • noncontemplative
  • nondemonstrative
  • nondeterminative
  • nonexterminative
  • precomprehensive
  • predemonstrative
  • predeterminative
  • semiconservative
  • semiquantitative
  • unadministrative
  • uncircumspective
  • undiscriminative
  • unmultiplicative
  • untransformative

17 letter words

  • haemagglutinative
  • immunosuppressive
  • maladministrative
  • misrepresentative
  • nonadministrative
  • nondiscriminative
  • nonmultiplicative
  • overargumentative
  • overcommunicative
  • overdemonstrative
  • preadministrative
  • pseudocompetitive
  • semicommunicative
  • subadministrative

18 letter words

  • heterofermentative
  • intercommunicative
  • myeloproliferative
  • noncircumscriptive
  • omnirepresentative

19 letter words

  • thermoelectromotive

What is the highest scoring word in Scrabble available on this page ?
Considering the huge selection of words to decide on, you may want to try 'vomitive' scoring 16 points.

What's the total number of words you're able to make using this combination of letters?
There are a maximum of 583 entries.

What is the most popular word that has 'm' in and ends with 'ive' in the dictionary?
We can verify that 'motive' is the 3971st most common word.

What is a peculiar word from this page?
Standing as our favorite interesting word on this list is 'nominative'. According to the Oxford dictionary, 'nominative' means "Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. -- N. The nominative case.".

How many letters does the largest word from this page contain?
The word 'thermoelectromotive' has 19 characters.