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


With so many possible entries to choose from (1,910 entries), there's definitely no limit.

4 letter words

  • rave
  • reve
  • rive
  • rove

5 letter words

  • brave
  • breve
  • carve
  • corve
  • crave
  • curve
  • derve
  • drave
  • drive
  • drove
  • grave
  • grove
  • herve
  • kerve
  • kirve
  • larve
  • nerve
  • parve
  • preve
  • prove
  • reave
  • reeve
  • reive
  • roove
  • serve
  • tarve
  • tirve
  • torve
  • trave
  • trove
  • varve
  • verve
  • warve
  • wrive

6 letter words

  • argive
  • arrive
  • brieve
  • cruive
  • derive
  • enerve
  • enrive
  • greave
  • greeve
  • grieve
  • groove
  • ortive
  • pareve
  • redive
  • regave
  • regive
  • releve
  • relive
  • relove
  • remove
  • renove
  • repave
  • resave
  • revive
  • rewave
  • rewove
  • sairve
  • screve
  • scrive
  • shrave
  • shrive
  • shrove
  • starve
  • sterve
  • strave
  • strive
  • strove
  • swarve
  • swerve
  • thrave
  • thrive
  • throve
  • unrove
  • uprive
  • wharve

7 letter words

  • airwave
  • appreve
  • approve
  • archive
  • ascrive
  • asserve
  • athrive
  • bebrave
  • becarve
  • begrave
  • bereave
  • corrive
  • cresive
  • cursive
  • decurve
  • deprave
  • deprive
  • deserve
  • embrave
  • enbrave
  • engrave
  • ennerve
  • erosive
  • esprove
  • forcive
  • forgave
  • forgive
  • forlive
  • furtive
  • improve
  • incarve
  • incurve
  • ingrave
  • ingreve
  • innerve
  • inserve
  • observe
  • outrave
  • outrive
  • outrove
  • premove
  • prepave
  • promove
  • pursive
  • realive

8 letter words

  • aborsive
  • abortive
  • abrasive
  • aggrieve
  • arrosive
  • aurilave
  • aversive
  • avertive
  • beetrave
  • berreave
  • bestarve
  • burgrave
  • caritive
  • coderive
  • coercive
  • congreve
  • conserve
  • contrive
  • creative
  • crescive
  • curative
  • derisive
  • descrive
  • discrive
  • disprove
  • disserve
  • durative
  • engrieve
  • engroove
  • erective
  • ergative
  • eruptive
  • eversive
  • exertive
  • forcarve
  • fordrive
  • forelive
  • forleave
  • fruitive
  • hogreeve
  • jurative
  • mangrove
  • margrave
  • misdrive
  • misdrove

9 letter words

  • accretive
  • acurative
  • adversive
  • aerocurve
  • afterlove
  • aperitive
  • archknave
  • arrestive
  • aspersive
  • assertive
  • assortive
  • attritive
  • brainwave
  • burggrave
  • caressive
  • centgrave
  • corevolve
  • corrasive
  • corrosive
  • creditive
  • curvative
  • decretive
  • decursive
  • deerdrive
  • detersive
  • detrusive
  • dikegrave
  • dikereeve
  • dykereeve
  • directive
  • divertive
  • divorcive
  • dormitive
  • downcurve
  • drawglove
  • drawshave
  • earthmove
  • egressive
  • embracive
  • enforcive
  • equicurve
  • excretive
  • excursive
  • extersive
  • extorsive

10 letter words

  • aberrative
  • abrogative
  • absorptive
  • abstersive
  • acervative
  • acutograve
  • admirative
  • adsorptive
  • affrontive
  • aftergrave
  • aftershave
  • aggressive
  • airbrasive
  • alterative
  • apperceive
  • appraisive
  • architrave
  • 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

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
  • churchreeve
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • circumvolve
  • cohortative
  • colourative
  • comparative
  • compressive
  • concrescive
  • congressive
  • contractive
  • contrastive
  • cooperative
  • corporative
  • correlative
  • coruscative
  • counterlove
  • countermove
  • counterwave
  • criminative
  • declarative
  • deformative
  • degradative

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
  • contraoctave
  • contributive
  • conversative
  • coordinative
  • counterdrive
  • counterprove
  • degenerative
  • deliberative
  • denumerative
  • depreciative
  • desiderative
  • discursative
  • disprobative
  • dissertative
  • distributive
  • disturbative
  • edulcorative
  • effervescive
  • exaggerative
  • exasperative
  • excrementive
  • exhilarative

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
  • electroengrave
  • 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

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

What's an unusual word from all the combinations available ?
Ranking as our favorite weird word on this page is 'retributive'. According to the English dictionary, 'retributive' is defined as "Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.".

How many letters are in the largest word on this page?
'Erythrodegenerative' is the biggest word that Dictionarypedia could locate.

How many words are possible to make using this combination of letters?
On this list of words that contain 'r' and end in 've', we have discovered 1,910 outstanding entries which can be selected.

What's the highest scoring word you can play in Scrabble ?
As there are a sizeable 1,910 entries, your best choice is 'perijove' which scores 20 points overall.

What is the most common word that has 'r' in and ends with 've'?
The most well-known word for the combination you requested is 'receive'.