Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 7-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like VE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: absolve, abusive, achieve.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolve | 7 | 2 | |
| abusive | 7 | 3 | |
| achieve | 7 | 2 | |
| airwave | 7 | 2 | |
| amative | 7 | 3 | |
| amusive | 7 | 3 | |
| approve | 7 | 2 | |
| archive | 7 | 2 | |
| beehive | 7 | 2 | |
| behoove | 7 | 2 | |
| believe | 7 | 2 | |
| bereave | 7 | 2 | |
| bivalve | 7 | 2 | |
| captive | 7 | 2 | |
| codrive | 7 | 2 | |
| codrove | 7 | 2 | |
| commove | 7 | 2 | |
| concave | 7 | 2 | |
| connive | 7 | 2 | |
| costive | 7 | 2 | |
| cursive | 7 | 2 | |
| deceive | 7 | 2 | |
| decurve | 7 | 2 | |
| deleave | 7 | 2 | |
| deprave | 7 | 2 | |
| deprive | 7 | 2 | |
| deserve | 7 | 2 | |
| devolve | 7 | 2 | |
| dissave | 7 | 2 | |
| elative | 7 | 3 | |
| elusive | 7 | 3 | |
| emotive | 7 | 3 | |
| enclave | 7 | 2 | |
| engrave | 7 | 2 | |
| enslave | 7 | 2 | |
| erosive | 7 | 3 | |
| evasive | 7 | 3 | |
| exclave | 7 | 2 | |
| festive | 7 | 2 | |
| fictive | 7 | 2 | |
| forgave | 7 | 2 | |
| forgive | 7 | 2 | |
| furtive | 7 | 2 | |
| improve | 7 | 2 | |
| incurve | 7 | 2 | |
| innerve | 7 | 2 | |
| involve | 7 | 2 | |
| inweave | 7 | 2 | |
| jussive | 7 | 2 | |
| khedive | 7 | 2 | |
| massive | 7 | 2 | |
| misgave | 7 | 2 | |
| misgive | 7 | 2 | |
| mislive | 7 | 2 | |
| mismove | 7 | 2 | |
| missive | 7 | 2 | |
| observe | 7 | 2 | |
| outgave | 7 | 2 | |
| outgive | 7 | 2 | |
| outlive | 7 | 2 | |
| outlove | 7 | 2 | |
| outmove | 7 | 2 | |
| outrave | 7 | 2 | |
| passive | 7 | 2 | |
| pensive | 7 | 2 | |
| plosive | 7 | 2 | |
| predive | 7 | 2 | |
| receive | 7 | 2 | |
| recurve | 7 | 2 | |
| redrive | 7 | 2 | |
| redrove | 7 | 2 | |
| relieve | 7 | 2 | |
| reprove | 7 | 2 | |
| reserve | 7 | 2 | |
| reshave | 7 | 2 | |
| resolve | 7 | 2 | |
| restive | 7 | 2 | |
| revolve | 7 | 2 | |
| reweave | 7 | 2 | |
| scrieve | 7 | 1 | |
| shrieve | 7 | 1 | |
| skydive | 7 | 2 | |
| skydove | 7 | 2 | |
| stative | 7 | 2 | |
| suasive | 7 | 2 | |
| survive | 7 | 2 | |
| tensive | 7 | 2 | |
| tussive | 7 | 2 | |
| unglove | 7 | 2 | |
| unitive | 7 | 3 | |
| unnerve | 7 | 2 | |
| unreeve | 7 | 2 | |
| unweave | 7 | 2 | |
| upcurve | 7 | 2 | |
| upheave | 7 | 2 |
What’s typical about VE-ending words?
VE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.