Words Containing IVE
We found 2,299 words containing IVE. Common examples are ABRASIVE, ABUSIVE, ACTIVE, ACTIVELY. Bold words are common everyday words; the number shows Scrabble points.
2,299words
EXCOMMUNICATIVEtop score (33 pts)
ABRASIVEcommon word
4-letter words (9)
5-letter words (40)
6-letter words (72)
- active11
- arrive9
- belive11
- derive10
- divers10
- divert10
- divest10
- drivel10
- driven10
- driver10
- drives10
- endive10
- givens10
- givers10
- knives13
- lively12
- livers9
- motive11
- native9
- olives9
- quiver18
- relive9
- revive12
- rivers9
- shiver12
- sliver9
- strive9
- swivel12
- thrive12
- waived13
- waiver12
- aivers9
- chives14
- civets11
- dative10
- fivers12
- glaive10
- grivet10
- jivers16
- livens9
- livery12
- livest9
- naiver9
- naives9
- ogives10
- privet11
- regive10
- reived10
- reiver9
- reives9
- rivets9
- scrive11
- shives12
- shrive12
- sivers9
- skived14
- skiver13
- skives13
- snivel9
- stiver9
- swived13
- swives12
- swivet12
- trivet9
- unlive9
- updive12
- visive12
- vivers12
- votive12
- waives12
- wivern12
- wivers12
7-letter words (123)
- abusive12
- arrived11
- arrives10
- captive14
- cursive12
- deceive13
- deliver11
- deprive13
- derives11
- drivers11
- elusive10
- evasive13
- festive13
- forgive14
- furtive13
- massive12
- motives12
- naivete10
- natives10
- outlive10
- passive12
- receive12
- revived14
- riveted11
- shivers13
- shrivel13
- survive13
- thrives13
- actives12
- amative12
- amusive12
- aquiver19
- archive15
- arriver10
- beehive15
- clivers12
- codrive13
- connive12
- costive12
- datives11
- derived12
- deriver11
- diverge12
- diverse11
- diverts11
- divests11
- drivels11
- elative10
- emotive12
- endives11
- enliven10
- erosive10
- fictive15
- glaived12
- glaives11
- grivets11
- jiveass17
- jussive17
- khedive18
- livened11
- livener10
- miniver12
- misgive13
- mislive12
- missive12
- motived13
- naively13
- naivest10
- naivety13
- niveous10
- outgive11
- pensive12
- plosive12
- predive13
- privets12
- quivers19
- quivery22
- redrive11
- regiven11
- regives11
- reivers10
- relived11
- relives10
- restive10
- reviver13
- revives13
- riveter10
- scrived13
- scrives12
- shivery16
- shrived14
- shriven13
- shriver13
- shrives13
- skivers14
- skydive18
- slivers10
- snivels10
- stative10
- stivers10
- strived11
- striven10
- striver10
- strives10
- stuiver10
- suasive10
- swivels13
- swivets13
- tensive10
- thrived14
- thriven13
- thriver13
- trivets10
- tussive10
- unitive10
- unlived11
- unlives10
- updived14
- updives13
- upriver12
- vetiver13
- waivers13
- wiverns13
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
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9-letter words (282)
- addictive16
- additives14
- adjective22
- antivenin12
- assertive12
- attentive12
- cabdriver17
- caregiver15
- combative18
- conceived17
- conducive17
- contrived15
- deceptive17
- defective18
- defensive16
- delivered14
- detective15
- digestive14
- directive15
- diversion13
- diverting14
- downriver16
- driveways19
- effective20
- evocative17
- excessive21
- exclusive21
- executive21
- expensive21
- explosive21
- extensive19
- fugitives16
- impulsive16
- incentive14
- intensive12
- intuitive12
- inventive15
- laxatives19
- livestock18
- lucrative14
- massively17
- narrative12
- negatives13
- objective23
- obsessive14
- offensive18
- operative14
- overdrive16
- perceived17
- positives14
- primitive16
- proactive16
- quivering22
- receptive16
- reclusive14
- relatives12
- repulsive14
- riverbank18
- riverside13
- secretive14
- sedatives13
- seductive15
- selective14
- sensitive12
- shivering16
- shriveled16
- talkative16
- tentative12
- universal12
- universes12
- ablatives14
- abrasives14
- abusively17
- acceptive18
- accretive16
- adductive16
- adhesives16
- adjustive20
- admissive15
- advective18
- adventive16
- affective20
- agentives13
- agitative13
- aliveness12
- almsgiver15
- amatively17
- ambiverts16
- ascensive14
- assuasive12
- auditives13
- bedrivels15
- beshivers17
- bijective23
- bioactive16
- calmative16
- caressive14
- causative14
- coderived16
- coderives15
- codrivers15
- cognitive15
- collusive14
- conceiver16
- conceives16
- connivent14
- connivers14
- contriver14
- contrives14
- corrasive14
- corrosive14
- costively17
- curatives14
- cursively17
- deceivers15
- decretive15
- deductive16
- deliverer13
- depletive15
- deprivers15
- detersive13
- diffusive19
- divebombs19
- divergent14
- diverging15
- diversely16
- diversify19
- diversity16
- diverters13
- divesting14
- donatives13
- driveable15
- drivelers13
- driveline13
- driveling14
- drivelled14
- duratives13
- educative15
- ejectives21
- electives14
- elusively15
- emanative14
- embracive18
- emotively17
- emulative14
- enlivened13
- eruptives14
- evasively18
- exceptive23
- excursive21
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10-letter words (303)
- adjectives23
- aggressive15
- attractive15
- automotive15
- collective17
- compulsive19
- conclusive17
- corrective17
- creatively18
- cumulative17
- decorative16
- definitive17
- deliveries14
- delivering15
- derivative17
- detectives16
- diminutive16
- dismissive16
- disruptive16
- diversions14
- executives22
- exhaustive23
- explosives22
- expressive22
- figurative17
- housewives19
- imperative17
- impressive17
- incentives15
- indicative16
- initiative13
- innovative16
- livelihood17
- locomotive17
- negatively17
- objectives24
- operatives15
- oppressive17
- overactive18
- perceptive19
- persuasive15
- positively18
- possessive15
- preemptive19
- preventive18
- productive18
- protective17
- reflective18
- relatively16
- repetitive15
- responsive15
- snivelling14
- subjective24
- submissive17
- subversive18
- suggestive15
- supportive17
- university16
- vegetative17
- vindictive19
- ablatively18
- abortively18
- abrasively18
- absolutive15
- absorptive17
- accusative17
- activeness15
- adaptively19
- additively18
- adhesively20
- adjunctive23
- adoptively19
- adsorptive16
- adventives17
- advocative19
- afflictive21
- afterlives16
- allusively16
- almsgivers16
- annotative13
- antivenins13
- apperceive19
- appetitive17
- appointive17
- appositive17
- appraisive17
- ascriptive17
- assaultive13
- assumptive17
- aversively19
- bedriveled17
- beshivered19
- biliverdin16
- cabdrivers18
- calmatives17
- capacitive19
- caregivers16
- causatives15
- coercively20
- cogitative16
- cohesively21
- combustive19
- completive19
- conceivers17
- conceptive19
- concessive17
- concoctive19
- concussive17
- conductive18
- congestive16
- connective17
- constative15
- consultive15
- contortive15
- contrivers15
- convective20
- convulsive18
- copulative17
- corrosives15
- corruptive17
- crescively20
- cunctative17
- curatively18
- decisively19
- defectives19
- defensives17
- deflective19
- degressive15
- deliverers14
- delusively17
- denotative14
- depressive16
- derisively17
- derogative15
- detersives14
- detonative14
- detractive16
- digestives15
- digressive15
- directives16
- discursive16
- dispersive16
- dissuasive14
- divebombed21
- divergence17
- divergency20
- divestment16
- divisively20
- dominative16
- drawknives21
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11-letter words (338)
- affirmative22
- alternative14
- anniversary17
- comparative20
- competitive20
- consecutive18
- cooperative18
- deceptively22
- descriptive19
- destructive17
- distinctive17
- effectively25
- excessively26
- exclusively26
- forgiveness18
- hyperactive24
- hypotensive22
- imaginative17
- impulsively21
- ineffective22
- inexpensive23
- initiatives14
- insensitive14
- interactive16
- legislative15
- obsessively19
- perspective20
- prerogative17
- progressive17
- prospective20
- provocative21
- radioactive17
- restorative14
- screwdriver20
- speculative18
- substantive16
- universally17
- abstractive18
- abusiveness16
- accusatives18
- acetylative19
- acquisitive25
- adjectively27
- adumbrative19
- adversative18
- affectively25
- affricative22
- aggregative17
- alivenesses14
- amativeness16
- ambiversion18
- antitussive14
- appellative18
- apperceived21
- apperceives20
- applicative20
- appositives18
- arbitrative16
- argumentive17
- assertively17
- associative16
- assortative14
- attentively17
- attributive16
- bedriveling18
- bedrivelled18
- beshivering20
- biliverdins17
- caressively19
- carminative18
- causatively19
- circulative18
- coextensive23
- cognitively20
- collectives18
- colligative17
- collusively19
- combatively23
- combinative20
- commutative20
- compressive20
- conflictive21
- confutative19
- conjunctive25
- connectives18
- connotative16
- constatives16
- consumptive20
- contractive18
- contrastive16
- copulatives18
- corporative18
- correctives18
- correlative16
- corrosively19
- costiveness16
- cursiveness16
- declarative17
- deductively21
- defectively23
- defensively21
- definitives18
- deformative20
- degradative17
- delineative15
- deliverable17
- deliverance17
- deliveryman20
- deliverymen20
- denigrative16
- depressives17
- derivatives18
- desiccative19
- designative16
- devastative18
- deverbative20
- diapositive17
- diffusively24
- digestively19
- diminutives17
- disjunctive24
- dispositive17
- dissipative17
- distractive17
- divebombing22
- divergences18
- divergently19
- diverseness15
- diversified19
- diversifier18
- diversifies18
- diversities15
- diverticula17
- divestiture15
- divestments17
- driveshafts21
- drivetrains15
- duplicative19
- elaborative16
- eliminative16
- elucidative17
- elusiveness14
- emulatively19
- enumerative16
- erosiveness14
- evaporative19
- evasiveness17
- evocatively22
- excursively26
- exfoliative24
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12-letter words (311)
- aggressively20
- alternatives15
- appreciative21
- apprehensive22
- collectively22
- compulsively24
- conclusively22
- conservative20
- constructive19
- definitively22
- degenerative17
- diversionary19
- figuratively22
- interpretive17
- manipulative19
- perspectives21
- preconceived22
- preventative20
- reproductive20
- respectively22
- unattractive17
- universities15
- unresponsive17
- abortiveness17
- abrasiveness17
- accelerative19
- accumulative21
- activenesses17
- adaptiveness18
- adhesiveness19
- adjudicative26
- adversatives19
- affirmatives23
- afflictively26
- affricatives23
- alliterative15
- allusiveness15
- ambiversions19
- ameliorative17
- anticreative17
- antitussives15
- appellatives19
- apperceptive23
- appositively22
- articulative17
- assaultively18
- asseverative18
- assimilative17
- attractively20
- attributives17
- augmentative18
- aversiveness18
- bedrivelling19
- biodiversity21
- capacitively24
- carminatives19
- coerciveness19
- cohesiveness20
- comparatives21
- compensative21
- concessively22
- conciliative19
- conjunctives26
- connectively22
- consecrative19
- constitutive17
- constrictive19
- consultative17
- consummative21
- consumptives21
- continuative17
- contributive19
- convulsively23
- cooperatives19
- coordinative18
- correctively22
- correlatives17
- corruptively22
- creativeness17
- cumulatively22
- decisiveness18
- decongestive19
- decoratively21
- degressively20
- deliberative18
- deliverances18
- delusiveness16
- denominative18
- denunciative18
- depreciative20
- depressively21
- derisiveness16
- derivatively22
- derogatively20
- desiderative17
- detractively21
- deverbatives21
- diapositives18
- digressively20
- diminutively21
- discursively21
- disincentive18
- disjunctives25
- dismissively21
- dispersively21
- disruptively21
- dissociative18
- dissuasively19
- distributive18
- ditransitive16
- divergencies19
- diversifiers19
- diversifying23
- diversionist16
- diverticular18
- diverticulum20
- divertimenti18
- divertimento18
- divestitures16
- divisiveness19
- dorsiventral16
- driveability21
- drivennesses16
- effusiveness21
- electiveness17
- exaggerative24
- excogitative25
- exhaustively28
- exhilarative25
- exploitative24
- expressively27
- extractively27
- facilitative20
- federatively22
- fermentative20
- fugitiveness19
- gingivectomy24
- hyperactives25
- hypertensive23
- hypotensives23
- illuminative17
- illusiveness15
- illustrative15
- imperatively22
- imperceptive23
- imperfective24
- impressively22
- imputatively22
- inchoatively23
- incisiveness17
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13-letter words (271)
- argumentative19
- assertiveness16
- authoritative19
- comparatively25
- comprehensive25
- effectiveness24
- instinctively21
- investigative20
- oversensitive19
- preservatives21
- uncooperative20
- unimaginative19
- abusivenesses18
- accommodative25
- acculturative20
- acquisitively30
- adumbratively24
- adversatively23
- affirmatively27
- agglomerative20
- agglutinative18
- aggregatively22
- alternatively19
- amativenesses18
- anniversaries16
- anticorrosive18
- antinarrative16
- appellatively23
- applicatively25
- appropriative22
- approximative29
- associatively21
- assortatively19
- attentiveness16
- attributively21
- augmentatives19
- coextensively28
- collaborative20
- combativeness22
- commemorative24
- commiserative22
- communicative24
- competitively25
- compressively25
- concentrative20
- conduciveness21
- confederative22
- configurative22
- conjunctively30
- connotatively21
- consecutively23
- conservatives21
- consumptively25
- contaminative20
- contemplative22
- contraceptive22
- contrastively21
- cooperatively23
- correlatively21
- corresponsive20
- corroborative20
- corrosiveness18
- costivenesses18
- counteractive20
- cursivenesses18
- deceptiveness21
- declaratively22
- defectiveness22
- defensiveness20
- demonstrative19
- denominatives19
- descriptively24
- destructively22
- detectivelike23
- deteriorative17
- determinative19
- diffusiveness23
- disincentives19
- disjunctively29
- distinctively22
- ditransitives17
- diversenesses17
- diversionists17
- divertimentos19
- elusivenesses16
- erosivenesses16
- evasivenesses19
- evocativeness21
- excessiveness25
- exclusiveness25
- excursiveness25
- expansiveness25
- expensiveness25
- explanatively28
- explicatively30
- exploratively28
- explosiveness25
- extensiveness23
- exteroceptive27
- extrapolative25
- facultatively24
- festivenesses19
- fictivenesses21
- forgivenesses20
- frequentative28
- furtivenesses19
- gesticulative19
- hyperreactive26
- hypertensives24
- imaginatively22
- imitativeness18
- impassiveness20
- imperfectives25
- implicatively25
- impulsiveness20
- inattentively19
- inclusiveness18
- inconsecutive20
- incorporative20
- indistinctive19
- ineffectively27
- inexpensively28
- informatively24
- inoffensively25
- inquisitively28
- inscriptively23
- insensitively19
- instructively21
- intensiveness16
- interactively21
- interoceptive20
- interpolative18
- interrogative17
- introgressive17
- introspective20
- intrusiveness16
- intuitiveness16
- invectiveness21
- inventiveness19
- justificative28
- legislatively20
- liveabilities18
- lucrativeness18
- massivenesses18
- misconceivers22
- nonabsorptive20
- nonaggressive18
- nonautomotive18
- nonconductive21
- noncumulative20
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14-letter words (195)
- administrative20
- contraceptives23
- overprotective24
- representative19
- vindictiveness23
- abortivenesses19
- abrasivenesses19
- accumulatively26
- adaptivenesses20
- adhesivenesses21
- aggressiveness19
- alliteratively20
- allusivenesses17
- anticonvulsive22
- anticorrosives19
- antiderivative21
- antireflective22
- antisubversive22
- antiuniversity20
- appreciatively26
- apprehensively27
- assaultiveness17
- attractiveness19
- aversivenesses20
- biodiversities20
- chemoreceptive28
- coercivenesses21
- cohesivenesses22
- collaboratives21
- commemoratives25
- compulsiveness23
- conclusiveness21
- conglomerative22
- conservatively25
- constitutively22
- constructively24
- contemplatives23
- contrapositive21
- contributively24
- convulsiveness22
- creativenesses19
- cryoprotective26
- cumulativeness21
- decisivenesses20
- deconstructive22
- decorativeness20
- definitiveness21
- deliberatively23
- deliverability23
- delusivenesses18
- demonstratives20
- derisivenesses18
- derivativeness21
- determinatives20
- digressiveness19
- diminutiveness20
- disaggregative21
- discriminative22
- discursiveness20
- disintegrative19
- dispersiveness20
- disruptiveness20
- dissuasiveness18
- distributively23
- diverticulites20
- diverticulitis20
- diverticuloses20
- diverticulosis20
- divertissement20
- divisivenesses21
- dorsiventrally21
- driveabilities20
- effusivenesses23
- electivenesses19
- exhaustiveness27
- exploitatively29
- expressiveness26
- figurativeness21
- frequentatives29
- fugitivenesses21
- gingivectomies23
- hypersensitive25
- illusivenesses17
- illustratively20
- immunoreactive23
- imperativeness21
- impressiveness21
- inappreciative23
- incisivenesses19
- inconclusively24
- indecisiveness20
- inexpressively29
- ingressiveness18
- innovativeness20
- intellectively22
- interoperative19
- interpretative19
- interpretively22
- interrogatives18
- intransitively20
- introversively23
- invasivenesses20
- liverishnesses20
- manipulatively24
- meditativeness20
- multiplicative23
- multiversities19
- negativenesses18
- nonacquisitive28
- noncommutative23
- noncompetitive23
- nonconsecutive21
- nonconsumptive23
- noncooperative21
- nonderivatives21
- nondescriptive22
- nondestructive20
- nondistinctive20
- nondiversified22
- noninteractive19
- nonprogressive20
- nonradioactive20
- nonrestrictive19
- nonretroactive19
- nonspeculative21
- opinionatively22
- oppressiveness21
- overaggressive22
- perceptiveness23
- percussiveness21
- perfectiveness24
- permissiveness21
- persuasiveness19
- photoinductive25
- photooxidative30
- photoreceptive26
- photosensitive22
- positivenesses19
- possessiveness19
- postpositively24
- preoperatively24
- prescriptively26
- preventiveness22
- productiveness22
- proprioceptive25
- proscriptively26
- protectiveness21
- protrusiveness19
- punitivenesses19
- quantitatively29
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15-letter words (144)
- competitiveness24
- representatives20
- acquisitiveness29
- alternativeness18
- anticompetitive24
- anticonvulsives23
- antiderivatives22
- antiprogressive21
- antispeculative22
- antisubversives23
- argumentatively24
- assertivenesses18
- attentivenesses18
- authoritatively24
- collaboratively25
- combativenesses24
- commemoratively29
- communicatively29
- comparativeness24
- comprehensively30
- conducivenesses23
- consecutiveness22
- contemplatively27
- contrapositives22
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How many words containing IVE are there?
There are 2,299 words containing IVE in our word list, for example ABRASIVE.
What is the highest scoring word containing ive in Scrabble?
EXCOMMUNICATIVE scores 33 points in Scrabble (before bonus squares) and 40 points in Words With Friends.