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


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6 letter words

  • endive
  • enlive
  • enrive
  • essive
  • estive

7 letter words

  • educive
  • elative
  • elecive
  • elusive
  • emotive
  • emptive
  • emusive
  • endives
  • enliven
  • erosive
  • evasive

8 letter words

  • eductive
  • effusive
  • egestive
  • ejective
  • elatives
  • elecives
  • elective
  • emissive
  • emulsive
  • enactive
  • enlivens
  • equative
  • erective
  • ergative
  • eruptive
  • eversive
  • evincive
  • exactive
  • excitive
  • excusive
  • exertive

9 letter words

  • educative
  • effective
  • egressive
  • ejectives
  • electives
  • elocutive
  • elusively
  • emanative
  • embracive
  • emotively
  • emulative
  • encaptive
  • enforcive
  • enhancive
  • enlivened
  • enlivener
  • eruptives
  • evasively
  • evocative
  • evolutive
  • exceptive
  • excessive
  • exclusive
  • excretive
  • excursive
  • executive
  • exemptive
  • expansive
  • expective
  • expensive
  • expiative
  • expletive
  • explosive
  • expulsive
  • extensive
  • extersive
  • extorsive
  • extortive
  • extrusive
  • exudative

10 letter words

  • ebullitive
  • effusively
  • ejectively
  • electively
  • elongative
  • embraciveg
  • emigrative
  • enervative
  • enlivening
  • entitative
  • equitative
  • eructative
  • eruptively
  • estimative
  • evacuative
  • evaluative
  • evidencive
  • exaltative
  • excerptive
  • excitative
  • excusative
  • excusively
  • execrative
  • executives
  • exhaustive
  • exhibitive
  • expeditive
  • expletives
  • exploitive
  • explosives
  • expositive
  • expressive
  • extinctive
  • extractive
  • extroitive

11 letter words

  • edificative
  • effectively
  • efformative
  • ejaculative
  • elaborative
  • eliminative
  • elucidative
  • elusiveness
  • emanatively
  • emotiveness
  • emulatively
  • enforcively
  • enlivenment
  • enumerative
  • enunciative
  • eradicative
  • erosiveness
  • evaporative
  • evasiveness
  • evocatively
  • examinative
  • exceptively
  • excessively
  • exclamative
  • exclusively
  • exculpative
  • excursively
  • executively
  • exfoliative
  • exhortative
  • exonerative
  • expansively
  • expatiative
  • expectative
  • expensively
  • explanative
  • expletively
  • explicative
  • explorative
  • explosively
  • expurgative
  • exquisitive
  • exsiccative
  • extensively
  • extenuative

12 letter words

  • edulcorative
  • effervescive
  • effusiveness
  • electiveness
  • emancipative
  • emasculative
  • enliveningly
  • enlivenments
  • entitatively
  • equicohesive
  • equivelocity
  • eruptiveness
  • exactiveness
  • exaggerative
  • exasperative
  • excogitative
  • excrementive
  • execratively
  • exhaustively
  • exhibitively
  • exhilarative
  • exploitative
  • expositively
  • expressively
  • extractively
  • extratensive
  • extraversive
  • extravertive
  • extroversive
  • extrovertive
  • exulcerative

13 letter words

  • effectiveness
  • elaboratively
  • electromotive
  • enculturative
  • enunciatively
  • equilibrative
  • evaporatively
  • evocativeness
  • exceptiveness
  • excessiveness
  • exclamatively
  • exclusiveness
  • excursiveness
  • executiveness
  • executiveship
  • exhortatively
  • expansiveness
  • expectorative
  • expensiveness
  • explanatively
  • expletiveness
  • explicatively
  • exploratively
  • explosiveness
  • expostulative
  • exquisitively
  • extensiveness
  • exterminative
  • exteroceptive
  • extrapolative
  • extrapunitive
  • extrospective

14 letter words

  • exaggeratively
  • exhaustiveness
  • exploitatively
  • expressiveness
  • extraversively
  • extravertively
  • extroversively
  • extrovertively

15 letter words

  • electronegative
  • electropositive
  • excommunicative
  • exemplificative
  • experimentative
  • explorativeness
  • expostulatively
  • exquisitiveness

16 letter words

  • electroreceptive
  • electrosensitive
  • electrostrictive
  • exaggerativeness

17 letter words

  • electroconvulsive
  • electrodispersive
  • electropercussive

19 letter words

  • erythrodegenerative

In Scrabble, what's the best score you can get from this list of words that start with 'e' and contain 'ive'?
With a vast 246 entries, you may want to opt for 'ejective' scoring 20 points.

How many letters are in the longest word on this page?
There are 19 letters in the word 'erythrodegenerative', that makes it the largest word on our page.

What is the most common word on this page?
Our system says the most common word that start with 'e' and include 'ive' is 'extensive'.

How many possible words can you make using these particular combinations of letters?
You can pick from 246 entries for this page.

What's an unusual word from the combinations available on this page?
We consider that 'evocative' to be the most peculiar word on this list. The definition of 'evocative' is as follows: "Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.".