Words that start with 'c' and contain 'ive'


There are a substantial 431 words to choose from for words that start with 'c' and contain 'ive', so take your time.

4 letter words

  • cive

5 letter words

  • chive
  • civet
  • clive

6 letter words

  • chivey
  • chiver
  • chives
  • civets
  • cliver
  • cruive

7 letter words

  • caliver
  • captive
  • censive
  • chetive
  • claiver
  • clivers
  • connive
  • convive
  • corrive
  • costive
  • cresive
  • crivetz
  • cultive
  • cursive

8 letter words

  • captived
  • captives
  • caritive
  • celative
  • chiveret
  • civetone
  • coactive
  • coderive
  • coercive
  • cohesive
  • conative
  • conceive
  • connived
  • conniver
  • connives
  • conscive
  • contrive
  • convives
  • cooptive
  • creative
  • crescive
  • curative
  • cursives

9 letter words

  • cabdriver
  • calmative
  • cantative
  • caressive
  • causative
  • cessative
  • civetlike
  • clamative
  • coderived
  • coderives
  • coemptive
  • cognitive
  • collative
  • collisive
  • collusive
  • combative
  • commotive
  • conceived
  • conceiver
  • conceives
  • conducive
  • confusive
  • connexive
  • connivent
  • connivery
  • connivers
  • connotive
  • contrived
  • contriver
  • contrives
  • contusive
  • corrasive
  • corrosive
  • costively
  • creditive
  • curatives
  • cursively
  • curvative

10 letter words

  • cantaliver
  • capacitive
  • capitative
  • caritative
  • catenative
  • coactively
  • coadjutive
  • coercitive
  • coercively
  • cogitative
  • cognitives
  • cohesively
  • cohibitive
  • collective
  • colorative
  • combustive
  • comitative
  • commissive
  • compassive
  • completive
  • complexive
  • compulsive
  • concaptive
  • conceivers
  • concentive
  • conceptive
  • concessive
  • conclusive
  • concoctive
  • concretive
  • concussive
  • conductive
  • congestive
  • conjective
  • connective
  • connivence
  • consentive
  • constative
  • consultive
  • contextive
  • contorsive
  • contortive
  • contrivers
  • convective
  • conversive

11 letter words

  • calculative
  • calefactive
  • captivative
  • caressively
  • carminative
  • castigative
  • causatively
  • celebrative
  • charitative
  • cicatrisive
  • circulative
  • coadunative
  • coagulative
  • coexclusive
  • coextensive
  • cognitively
  • cohortative
  • collectives
  • colligative
  • collocative
  • collusively
  • colourative
  • combatively
  • combinative
  • comminative
  • commulative
  • communitive
  • commutative
  • comparative
  • competitive
  • compositive
  • compressive
  • compulsives
  • compunctive
  • computative
  • concrescive
  • condonative
  • conflictive
  • confutative
  • congelative
  • congressive
  • conjugative
  • conjunctive
  • connectives
  • connivently

12 letter words

  • calumniative
  • capacitative
  • capacitively
  • carminatives
  • chylifactive
  • cinenegative
  • circumscrive
  • coerciveness
  • cogitatively
  • cognoscitive
  • cohesiveness
  • collectively
  • colliquative
  • combinantive
  • combustively
  • comfortative
  • commentative
  • commissively
  • comparatives
  • compellative
  • compensative
  • complaintive
  • completively
  • complexively
  • complicative
  • compulsative
  • compulsively
  • concessively
  • conciliative
  • conclusively
  • concretively
  • concussively
  • condensative
  • conductively
  • confirmative
  • congregative
  • conjunctives
  • connectively
  • conscriptive
  • consecrative
  • consecutives
  • consentively
  • conservative
  • consociative
  • conspirative

13 letter words

  • causativeness
  • certificative
  • chemisorptive
  • chemosorptive
  • circumventive
  • cirrostrative
  • coadunatively
  • coalternative
  • coextensively
  • collaborative
  • collusiveness
  • combativeness
  • commemorative
  • commiserative
  • communicative
  • commutatively
  • comparatively
  • competitively
  • compositively
  • comprehensive
  • compressively
  • computatively
  • concentrative
  • condescensive
  • conduciveness
  • confederative
  • configurative
  • conflagrative
  • conjunctively
  • connotatively
  • consecutively
  • conservatives
  • considerative
  • consolidative
  • consumptively
  • contaminative
  • contemplative
  • contraceptive
  • contractively
  • contradictive
  • contrastively
  • cooperatively
  • corporatively
  • correlatively
  • corresponsive

14 letter words

  • chemoreceptive
  • chemosensitive
  • circumspective
  • cogitativeness
  • cognoscitively
  • collectiveness
  • compensatively
  • comprehensives
  • compulsatively
  • compulsiveness
  • conceptiveness
  • concessiveness
  • conclusiveness
  • confirmatively
  • conglomerative
  • conglutinative
  • conservatively
  • constitutively
  • constructively
  • consubstantive
  • consultatively
  • consummatively
  • continuatively
  • contraceptives
  • contrapositive
  • contributively
  • convictiveness
  • convulsiveness
  • correctiveness
  • credenciveness
  • credensiveness
  • cryoprotective
  • cumulativeness

15 letter words

  • circumscriptive
  • cirrocumulative
  • coextensiveness
  • collaboratively
  • commemoratively
  • commiseratively
  • communicatively
  • comparativeness
  • competitiveness
  • complementative
  • complimentative
  • comprehensively
  • computativeness
  • condescensively
  • conjunctiveness
  • consecutiveness
  • consideratively
  • consumptiveness
  • contemplatively
  • contractiveness
  • contradictively
  • contrapositives
  • contrastiveness
  • cooperativeness
  • correlativeness
  • corresponsively
  • corroboratively
  • cosignificative
  • counteractively

16 letter words

  • circumspectively
  • colliquativeness
  • compensativeness
  • complaintiveness
  • congregativeness
  • conservativeness
  • consignificative
  • constitutiveness
  • constructiveness
  • consummativeness
  • continuativeness
  • contraindicative
  • contributiveness
  • counterintuitive
  • counterinvective
  • counternarrative
  • counteroffensive

17 letter words

  • circumscriptively
  • collaborativeness
  • commemorativeness
  • communicativeness
  • comprehensiveness
  • concentrativeness
  • condescensiveness
  • considerativeness
  • contemplativeness
  • contradictiveness
  • contradistinctive
  • counterattractive
  • counteroffensives
  • counterproductive

19 letter words

  • contradistinctively
  • counterattractively
  • counterproductively

21 letter words

  • counterproductiveness

Is there any word on this page that stands out as the most common?
Our database reveals the most common word in the dictionary that start with 'c' and include 'ive' is 'conceived'!

What is an interesting word from all the word combos possible ?
One of the most strange words from this list of words that start with 'c' and include 'ive' is 'comparative'. According to the English dictionary, 'comparative' means "1. Of or pertaining to comparison. "The comparative faculty." Granvill. 2. Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative anatomy. 3. Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state. The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold. Whewell. The bubble, by...".

How many characters are in the longest word on this list?
The largest word one can assemble from words that start with 'c' and include 'ive' is 'counterproductiveness', which has 21 letters.

How many words can you put together with this combination of letters?
It is possible to derive 431 words using the combination you asked for.

In Scrabble, what's the most points you can get from words starting with 'c' that contain 'ive'?
Considering the huge assortment of words to choose from, we'd suggest choosing 'crivetz' scoring 21 points overall.