8-Letter Words Containing IVE
We found 211 8-letter words containing IVE. Common examples are ABRASIVE, ACTIVELY, ADHESIVE, ADOPTIVE. Bold words are common everyday words; the number shows Scrabble points.
211words
FIXATIVEtop score (21 pts)
ABRASIVEcommon word
8-letter words (211)
- abrasive13
- actively16
- adhesive15
- adoptive14
- archives16
- captives15
- cohesive16
- conceive15
- creative13
- deceived15
- decisive14
- delivers12
- delivery15
- deprived15
- diverted13
- driveway18
- elective13
- forgiven15
- forgives15
- fugitive15
- giveaway18
- inactive13
- invasive14
- laxative18
- midwives17
- negative12
- nosedive12
- outlived12
- perceive15
- positive13
- punitive13
- reactive13
- received14
- receiver13
- receives13
- relative11
- riveting12
- sedative12
- survived15
- survives14
- universe11
- ablative13
- abortive13
- adaptive14
- additive13
- agentive12
- alewives14
- allusive11
- ambivert15
- archived17
- arrivers11
- auditive12
- aversive14
- bedrivel14
- beehives16
- beshiver16
- coactive15
- coderive14
- codriven14
- codriver14
- codrives14
- coercive15
- conative13
- connived14
- conniver13
- connives13
- contrive13
- crescive15
- curative13
- cursives13
- datively15
- deceiver14
- deceives14
- delusive12
- denotive12
- depriver14
- deprives14
- derisive12
- derivers12
- dilative12
- dilutive12
- divebomb18
- diverged14
- diverges13
- diverter12
- divested13
- divisive15
- donative12
- driveled13
- driveler12
- durative12
- eductive14
- effusive17
- egestive12
- ejective20
- elatives11
- emissive13
- emulsive13
- enactive13
- enlivens11
- erective13
- ergative12
- eruptive13
- evincive16
- exertive18
- fivefold18
- fivepins16
- fixative21
- forgiver15
- genitive12
- giveable14
- giveback20
- hiveless14
- huswives17
- ideative12
- illative11
- illusive11
- incisive13
- infusive14
- jussives18
- khedives19
- lawgiver15
- lenitive11
- ligative12
- liveable13
- livelier11
- livelily14
- livelong12
- liveners11
- liveness11
- livening12
- liveried12
- liveries11
- liverish14
- livetrap13
- locative13
- lowlives14
- midlives14
- midwived18
- minivers13
- misdrive14
- misgiven14
- misgives14
- mislived14
- mislives13
- missives13
- monitive13
- mutative13
- naivetes11
- natively14
- nonlives11
- oldwives15
- omissive13
- optative13
- orective13
- outdrive12
- outgiven12
- outgives12
- outliver11
- outlives11
- overlive14
- passives13
- plausive13
- plosives13
- postdive14
- prelives13
- putative13
- quivered21
- quiverer20
- redriven12
- redrives12
- restrive11
- revivers14
- riverbed14
- riverine11
- riveters11
- rivetted12
- rotative11
- sanative11
- seducive14
- shivered15
- shiverer14
- shrivels14
- shrivers14
- skydived20
- skydiver19
- skydives19
- slivered12
- sliverer11
- sniveled12
- sniveler11
- sorptive13
- sportive13
- statives11
- strivers11
- stuivers11
- surviver14
- swiveled15
- thrivers14
- tirrivee11
- tractive13
- unlively14
- uprivers13
- vegetive15
- vetivers14
- vetivert14
- viverrid15
- vocative16
- volitive14
- vomitive16
- votively17
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Frequently asked questions
How many 8-letter words containing IVE are there?
There are 211 8-letter words containing IVE in our word list, for example ABRASIVE.
What is the highest scoring 8-letter word containing ive in Scrabble?
FIXATIVE scores 21 points in Scrabble (before bonus squares) and 22 points in Words With Friends.