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


There are 1,261 entries to pick from for words that contain 's' and end in 'ive', so take your time.

5 letter words

  • shive
  • skive
  • slive
  • stive
  • swive

6 letter words

  • essive
  • estive
  • musive
  • sative
  • scrive
  • shrive
  • strive
  • visive

7 letter words

  • abusive
  • aestive
  • amusive
  • ascrive
  • censive
  • costive
  • cresive
  • cursive
  • dislive
  • elusive
  • emusive
  • erosive
  • evasive
  • fensive
  • festive
  • fissive
  • hastive
  • jussive
  • lessive
  • massive
  • misgive
  • mislive
  • missive
  • passive
  • pensive
  • plosive
  • pulsive
  • pursive
  • restive
  • sective
  • sensive
  • sertive
  • skydive
  • stative
  • suasive
  • survive
  • tensive
  • torsive
  • tussive

8 letter words

  • abessive
  • aborsive
  • abrasive
  • accusive
  • adessive
  • adhesive
  • adustive
  • advisive
  • allusive
  • arrosive
  • aversive
  • boastive
  • cohesive
  • conscive
  • crescive
  • decisive
  • delusive
  • derisive
  • descrive
  • desitive
  • discrive
  • divisive
  • effusive
  • egestive
  • emissive
  • emulsive
  • eversive
  • excusive
  • guessive
  • guestive
  • illusive
  • incisive
  • inessive
  • infusive
  • inhesive
  • invasive
  • maestive
  • misdrive
  • nosedive
  • occasive
  • omissive
  • plausive
  • positive
  • pressive
  • refusive

9 letter words

  • accessive
  • adjustive
  • admissive
  • adversive
  • appeasive
  • applosive
  • appulsive
  • arrestive
  • ascensive
  • aspersive
  • assausive
  • assentive
  • assertive
  • assistive
  • assortive
  • assuasive
  • attestive
  • biplosive
  • caressive
  • causative
  • cessative
  • collisive
  • collusive
  • confusive
  • contusive
  • corrasive
  • corrosive
  • decursive
  • defeasive
  • defensive
  • demissive
  • desistive
  • detersive
  • detrusive
  • diffusive
  • digestive
  • dimensive
  • divulsive
  • egressive
  • excessive
  • exclusive
  • excursive
  • expansive
  • expensive
  • explosive

10 letter words

  • absolutive
  • absorptive
  • abstersive
  • accusative
  • adsorptive
  • aggressive
  • airbrasive
  • applausive
  • appositive
  • appraisive
  • ascriptive
  • assaultive
  • assumptive
  • astrictive
  • astructive
  • combustive
  • commissive
  • compassive
  • compulsive
  • concessive
  • conclusive
  • concussive
  • congestive
  • consentive
  • constative
  • consultive
  • contorsive
  • conversive
  • convulsive
  • credensive
  • degressive
  • depositive
  • depressive
  • descensive
  • desolative
  • digressive
  • disclosive
  • discretive
  • discursive
  • discussive
  • disdeceive
  • disgracive
  • dismissive
  • dispansive
  • dispensive

11 letter words

  • abstractive
  • acquisitive
  • adscriptive
  • adversative
  • ambiversive
  • antierosive
  • antitussive
  • assertative
  • associative
  • assortative
  • attestative
  • castigative
  • cicatrisive
  • coexclusive
  • coextensive
  • compositive
  • compressive
  • concrescive
  • congressive
  • consecutive
  • consumptive
  • contrastive
  • coruscative
  • defensative
  • descriptive
  • desiccative
  • designative
  • destructive
  • devastative
  • diapositive
  • discerptive
  • discoursive
  • disillusive
  • disjunctive
  • dispositive
  • dispunitive
  • disputative
  • disscussive
  • dissipative
  • dissolutive
  • distinctive
  • distractive
  • divestitive
  • exquisitive
  • exsiccative

12 letter words

  • apprehensive
  • asphyxiative
  • asseverative
  • assimilative
  • auscultative
  • autopositive
  • circumscrive
  • cognoscitive
  • compensative
  • compulsative
  • condensative
  • conscriptive
  • consecrative
  • conservative
  • consociative
  • conspirative
  • constitutive
  • constrictive
  • constructive
  • consultative
  • consummative
  • conversative
  • decongestive
  • desiderative
  • desquamative
  • disconducive
  • discursative
  • disincentive
  • disinfective
  • dispensative
  • disprobative
  • disquisitive
  • dissertative
  • dissociative
  • dissolvative
  • distributive
  • disturbative
  • effervescive
  • emasculative
  • equicohesive
  • exasperative
  • extratensive
  • extraversive
  • extroversive
  • fashionative

13 letter words

  • animadversive
  • anticorrosive
  • antisiccative
  • assassinative
  • autodigestive
  • chemisorptive
  • chemosorptive
  • cirrostrative
  • commiserative
  • comprehensive
  • condescensive
  • considerative
  • consolidative
  • corresponsive
  • decompressive
  • demonstrative
  • disconnective
  • discontentive
  • disfigurative
  • disrespective
  • dissemilative
  • disseminative
  • dissimilative
  • dissimulative
  • domesticative
  • expostulative
  • extrospective
  • gesticulative
  • hydropositive
  • hyposensitive
  • idiorepulsive
  • impersonative
  • improgressive
  • inconsecutive
  • indescriptive
  • indistinctive
  • insuppressive
  • introgressive
  • introspective
  • investigative
  • irrestrictive
  • justificative
  • juxtapositive
  • manifestative
  • misexpressive

14 letter words

  • administrative
  • antiaggressive
  • anticonvulsive
  • antidepressive
  • antiexpressive
  • autoregressive
  • autosuggestive
  • chemosensitive
  • circumspective
  • consubstantive
  • contrapositive
  • disaffirmative
  • disaggregative
  • disapprobative
  • disciplinative
  • discriminative
  • disintegrative
  • hyperexcursive
  • hyperobtrusive
  • hypersensitive
  • inapprehensive
  • intercausative
  • interdiffusive
  • interpervasive
  • interstinctive
  • misdescriptive
  • misinformative
  • misinstructive
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonassociative
  • noncompressive
  • nonconsecutive
  • nonconsumptive
  • noncontrastive
  • nondescriptive
  • nondesignative
  • nondestructive
  • nondisjunctive
  • nondissipative
  • nondistinctive
  • nondistractive
  • noninstinctive
  • noninstructive
  • nonlegislative
  • nonobstructive

15 letter words

  • antiprogressive
  • autoprogressive
  • circumscriptive
  • cosignificative
  • disassimilative
  • electropositive
  • incomprehensive
  • insignificative
  • instrumentative
  • interresponsive
  • intersubjective
  • intussusceptive
  • locodescriptive
  • misappreciative
  • misapprehensive
  • misconstructive
  • neoconservative
  • nonapprehensive
  • nonassimilative
  • noncompensative
  • nonconservative
  • nonconstrictive
  • nonconstructive
  • nonconsultative
  • nondesquamative
  • nondistributive
  • nonillustrative
  • nonintroversive
  • nonprescriptive
  • nonpreservative
  • nonproscriptive
  • nonsubstitutive
  • overdescriptive
  • overdestructive
  • overinstructive
  • overpresumptive
  • overspeculative
  • overstimulative
  • personificative
  • phosphorylative
  • postsuppurative
  • pressosensitive
  • proconscriptive
  • procrastinative
  • prognosticative

16 letter words

  • anticonscriptive
  • anticonservative
  • antihypertensive
  • consignificative
  • counteroffensive
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • hyperspeculative
  • hypersuperlative
  • indiscriminative
  • interdestructive
  • isoagglutinative
  • magnetostrictive
  • noncommiserative
  • noncomprehensive
  • nondemonstrative
  • nonintrospective
  • nonresuscitative
  • nonsignificative
  • nontranscriptive
  • nontransgressive
  • overapprehensive
  • overconservative
  • overillustrative
  • postreproductive
  • precomprehensive
  • predemonstrative
  • presignificative
  • pseudoaggressive
  • resinoextractive
  • semiconservative
  • semiquantitative
  • superinquisitive
  • unadministrative
  • uncircumspective
  • undiscriminative
  • unrepresentative
  • untransformative
  • vasoconstrictive

17 letter words

  • contradistinctive
  • electroconvulsive
  • electrodispersive
  • electropercussive
  • hyperconservative
  • immunosuppressive
  • maladministrative
  • misrepresentative
  • nonadministrative
  • nondiscriminative
  • nonrepresentative
  • overdemonstrative
  • overgesticulative
  • photodissociative
  • preadministrative
  • pseudoapplicative
  • pseudocompetitive
  • pseudolegislative
  • pseudoperspective
  • semicommunicative
  • subadministrative
  • subtersuperlative
  • superconservative
  • superregenerative
  • ultraconservative
  • unprognosticative

18 letter words

  • archrepresentative
  • noncircumscriptive
  • nonprognosticative
  • omnirepresentative
  • overrepresentative
  • pseudoapprehensive
  • pseudoconservative
  • transubstantiative
  • unltraconservative

What is the most popular word for this page?
The most common word in this list according to our database is 'positive', which is actually the 3994th most common word in the dictionary.

What is an example of a unique word from this page?
By far the most interesting word from this list is 'discussive'. The typical definition of 'discussive' is as follows: "1. (Med.) Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter. 2. Doubt-dispelling; decisive. [R.] A kind of peremptory and discussive voice. Hopkins. A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.". Source Oxford Dictionary.

What is the longest word you can construct from words that have 's' in and end with 'ive'?
The longest word that's possible to derive from this combination is 'archrepresentative', and it contains 18 letters.

How many words can you put together with words that have 's' in and end with 'ive'?
1,261!

What's the highest scoring word you can play in Scrabble ?
As there are a vast 1,261 entries, it's best to go for 'excusive' scoring 20 points.