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


With an abundance of choice (1,596 entries), the options are endless.

4 letter words

  • rive

5 letter words

  • drive
  • reive
  • wrive

6 letter words

  • argive
  • arrive
  • cruive
  • derive
  • enrive
  • ortive
  • redive
  • regive
  • relive
  • revive
  • scrive
  • shrive
  • strive
  • thrive
  • uprive

7 letter words

  • archive
  • ascrive
  • athrive
  • corrive
  • cresive
  • cursive
  • deprive
  • erosive
  • forcive
  • forgive
  • forlive
  • furtive
  • outrive
  • pursive
  • realive
  • receive
  • redrive
  • restive
  • ruptive
  • sertive
  • survive
  • tardive
  • torsive
  • tortive

8 letter words

  • aborsive
  • abortive
  • abrasive
  • arrosive
  • aversive
  • avertive
  • caritive
  • coderive
  • coercive
  • contrive
  • creative
  • crescive
  • curative
  • derisive
  • descrive
  • discrive
  • durative
  • erective
  • ergative
  • eruptive
  • eversive
  • exertive
  • fordrive
  • forelive
  • fruitive
  • jurative
  • misdrive
  • orective
  • outdrive
  • overgive
  • overlive
  • perceive
  • practive
  • predrive
  • pressive
  • proclive
  • reactive
  • rearrive
  • recidive
  • redivive
  • refusive
  • regitive
  • relative
  • remotive
  • restrive

9 letter words

  • accretive
  • acurative
  • adversive
  • aperitive
  • arrestive
  • aspersive
  • assertive
  • assortive
  • attritive
  • caressive
  • corrasive
  • corrosive
  • creditive
  • curvative
  • decretive
  • decursive
  • deerdrive
  • detersive
  • detrusive
  • directive
  • divertive
  • divorcive
  • dormitive
  • egressive
  • embracive
  • enforcive
  • excretive
  • excursive
  • extersive
  • extorsive
  • extortive
  • extrusive
  • forgetive
  • formative
  • fortyfive
  • fricative
  • gernative
  • gerundive
  • gradative
  • hortative
  • immersive
  • impartive
  • incursive
  • insertive
  • intrusive

10 letter words

  • aberrative
  • abrogative
  • absorptive
  • abstersive
  • acervative
  • admirative
  • adsorptive
  • affrontive
  • aggressive
  • airbrasive
  • alterative
  • apperceive
  • appraisive
  • arrogative
  • ascriptive
  • astrictive
  • astructive
  • attractive
  • caritative
  • coercitive
  • colorative
  • concretive
  • contorsive
  • contortive
  • conversive
  • convertive
  • corelative
  • corrective
  • corruptive
  • credencive
  • credensive
  • decorative
  • decreative
  • degressive
  • depressive
  • depurative
  • derivative
  • derogative
  • detractive
  • devorative
  • digressive
  • discretive
  • discursive
  • disgracive
  • dispersive

11 letter words

  • abstractive
  • adscriptive
  • adumbrative
  • adversative
  • affirmative
  • afformative
  • affricative
  • aggravative
  • aggregative
  • altercative
  • alternative
  • ambiversive
  • antierosive
  • approbative
  • arbitrative
  • argumentive
  • assertative
  • assortative
  • attributive
  • carminative
  • celebrative
  • charitative
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • cohortative
  • colourative
  • comparative
  • compressive
  • concrescive
  • congressive
  • contractive
  • contrastive
  • cooperative
  • corporative
  • correlative
  • coruscative
  • criminative
  • declarative
  • deformative
  • degradative
  • dehortative
  • denigrative
  • deprecative
  • deprivative
  • descriptive

12 letter words

  • abirritative
  • accelerative
  • alliterative
  • ameliorative
  • anticreative
  • antireactive
  • apperceptive
  • appreciative
  • apprehensive
  • architective
  • articulative
  • asseverative
  • birefractive
  • circumscrive
  • comfortative
  • confirmative
  • congregative
  • conscriptive
  • consecrative
  • conservative
  • conspirative
  • constrictive
  • constructive
  • contributive
  • conversative
  • coordinative
  • counterdrive
  • degenerative
  • deliberative
  • denumerative
  • depreciative
  • desiderative
  • discursative
  • disprobative
  • dissertative
  • distributive
  • disturbative
  • edulcorative
  • effervescive
  • exaggerative
  • exasperative
  • excrementive
  • exhilarative
  • extratensive
  • extraversive

13 letter words

  • acculturative
  • agglomerative
  • animadversive
  • anticorrosive
  • antinarrative
  • antireductive
  • antireflexive
  • appropriative
  • approximative
  • archdetective
  • aregenerative
  • argumentative
  • authoritative
  • certificative
  • chemisorptive
  • chemosorptive
  • circumventive
  • cirrostrative
  • coalternative
  • collaborative
  • commemorative
  • commiserative
  • comprehensive
  • concentrative
  • confederative
  • configurative
  • conflagrative
  • considerative
  • contraceptive
  • contradictive
  • corresponsive
  • corroborative
  • counteractive
  • decompressive
  • decorrugative
  • demonstrative
  • denumerantive
  • deteriorative
  • determinative
  • disfigurative
  • disrespective
  • electromotive
  • enculturative
  • equilibrative
  • expectorative

14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antiaggressive
  • antidepressive
  • antiderivative
  • antiexpressive
  • antiproductive
  • autoregressive
  • autoregulative
  • chemoreceptive
  • circumspective
  • conglomerative
  • contrapositive
  • cryoprotective
  • defibrillative
  • disaffirmative
  • disaggregative
  • disapprobative
  • discriminative
  • disintegrative
  • fructificative
  • hyperexcursive
  • hypernutritive
  • hyperobtrusive
  • hypersensitive
  • immunoreactive
  • inappreciative
  • inapprehensive
  • intercausative
  • interdiffusive
  • interobjective
  • interpervasive
  • interpretative
  • interstinctive
  • irreproductive
  • misdescriptive
  • misinformative
  • misinstructive
  • nociperceptive
  • nonattributive
  • noncompressive
  • noncontrastive
  • noncooperative
  • noncorporative
  • noncorrelative
  • nondeclarative

15 letter words

  • antiprogressive
  • autoprogressive
  • circumscriptive
  • cirrocumulative
  • differentiative
  • electronegative
  • electropositive
  • experimentative
  • inauthoritative
  • incomprehensive
  • indeterminative
  • instrumentative
  • interderivative
  • intergenerative
  • interinhibitive
  • interresponsive
  • intersubjective
  • locodescriptive
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • misconstructive
  • neoconservative
  • nonaccelerative
  • nonalliterative
  • nonappreciative
  • nonapprehensive
  • nonarticulative
  • nonconfirmative
  • noncongregative
  • nonconservative
  • nonconstrictive
  • nonconstructive
  • noncontributive
  • nondegenerative
  • nondepreciative
  • nondistributive
  • nonexaggerative
  • nonfermentative
  • nonillustrative
  • noninterceptive
  • noninterruptive
  • nonintroversive
  • nonprescriptive
  • nonpreservative
  • nonpropitiative

16 letter words

  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • antifermentative
  • antihypertensive
  • antiputrefactive
  • contraindicative
  • counterintuitive
  • counterinvective
  • counternarrative
  • counteroffensive
  • electroreceptive
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • hyperspeculative
  • hypersuperlative
  • homofermentative
  • indiscriminative
  • interdestructive
  • interpenetrative
  • magnetostrictive
  • mechanoreceptive
  • nonagglomerative
  • nonappropriative
  • nonargumentative
  • nonauthoritative
  • noncollaborative
  • noncommemorative
  • noncommiserative
  • noncomprehensive
  • nonconcentrative
  • noncorroborative
  • noncounteractive
  • nondemonstrative
  • nondeterminative
  • nonexterminative
  • nonincorporative
  • noninterpolative
  • nonintrospective
  • nonprecipitative
  • nonresuscitative
  • nontranscriptive
  • nontransgressive
  • overappreciative
  • overapprehensive
  • overconservative

17 letter words

  • anticonfederative
  • contradistinctive
  • counterattractive
  • counterproductive
  • electroconvulsive
  • electrodispersive
  • electropercussive
  • hyperconservative
  • immunosuppressive
  • maladministrative
  • misrepresentative
  • neurodegenerative
  • nonadministrative
  • nondiscriminative
  • noninterpretative
  • nonrepresentative
  • overargumentative
  • overcommunicative
  • overdemonstrative
  • overgesticulative
  • preadministrative
  • preinterpretative
  • pseudoperspective
  • 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

How many letters does the longest word from this page consist of?
'Erythrodegenerative' is the longest word that we could assemble, containing 19 letters

Is there any word on this page that sticks out as the most common?
The most well-known word for your request is 'receive'.

What's the highest scoring word in Scrabble available from this list ?
With a plethora of words to choose from, we'd recommend picking 'exertive' scoring 18 points overall.

In total, how many words are available using the combination requested?
There are 1,596 entries.

What word that has 'r' in and ends with 'ive' is the most interesting?
We feel 'intransitive' to be the most peculiar word. It is defined as "1. Not passing farther; kept; detained. [R.] And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. Jer. Taylor. 2. (Gram.) Not transitive; not passing over tas, an intransitive verb, e. G., the...".