Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like IVE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: ablative, abortive, abrasive.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| ablative | 8 | 3 | |
| abortive | 8 | 3 | |
| abrasive | 8 | 3 | |
| adaptive | 8 | 3 | |
| additive | 8 | 3 | |
| adhesive | 8 | 3 | |
| adoptive | 8 | 3 | |
| agentive | 8 | 3 | |
| allusive | 8 | 3 | |
| auditive | 8 | 3 | |
| aversive | 8 | 3 | |
| coactive | 8 | 2 | |
| coderive | 8 | 3 | |
| coercive | 8 | 2 | |
| cohesive | 8 | 3 | |
| conative | 8 | 3 | |
| conceive | 8 | 2 | |
| contrive | 8 | 2 | |
| creative | 8 | 2 | |
| crescive | 8 | 2 | |
| curative | 8 | 3 | |
| decisive | 8 | 3 | |
| delusive | 8 | 3 | |
| denotive | 8 | 3 | |
| derisive | 8 | 3 | |
| dilative | 8 | 3 | |
| dilutive | 8 | 3 | |
| divisive | 8 | 3 | |
| donative | 8 | 3 | |
| durative | 8 | 3 | |
| eductive | 8 | 3 | |
| effusive | 8 | 3 | |
| egestive | 8 | 3 | |
| ejective | 8 | 3 | |
| elective | 8 | 3 | |
| emissive | 8 | 3 | |
| emulsive | 8 | 3 | |
| enactive | 8 | 3 | |
| erective | 8 | 3 | |
| ergative | 8 | 3 | |
| eruptive | 8 | 3 | |
| evincive | 8 | 3 | |
| exertive | 8 | 3 | |
| fixative | 8 | 3 | |
| fugitive | 8 | 3 | |
| genitive | 8 | 3 | |
| ideative | 8 | 3 | |
| illative | 8 | 3 | |
| illusive | 8 | 3 | |
| inactive | 8 | 3 | |
| incisive | 8 | 3 | |
| infusive | 8 | 3 | |
| invasive | 8 | 3 | |
| laxative | 8 | 3 | |
| lenitive | 8 | 3 | |
| ligative | 8 | 3 | |
| locative | 8 | 3 | |
| misdrive | 8 | 2 | |
| monitive | 8 | 3 | |
| mutative | 8 | 3 | |
| negative | 8 | 3 | |
| nosedive | 8 | 3 | |
| omissive | 8 | 3 | |
| optative | 8 | 3 | |
| orective | 8 | 3 | |
| outdrive | 8 | 2 | |
| overlive | 8 | 3 | |
| perceive | 8 | 2 | |
| plausive | 8 | 2 | |
| positive | 8 | 3 | |
| postdive | 8 | 2 | |
| punitive | 8 | 3 | |
| putative | 8 | 3 | |
| reactive | 8 | 2 | |
| relative | 8 | 3 | |
| restrive | 8 | 2 | |
| rotative | 8 | 3 | |
| sanative | 8 | 3 | |
| sedative | 8 | 3 | |
| seducive | 8 | 3 | |
| sorptive | 8 | 2 | |
| sportive | 8 | 2 | |
| tractive | 8 | 2 | |
| vegetive | 8 | 3 | |
| vocative | 8 | 3 | |
| volitive | 8 | 3 | |
| vomitive | 8 | 3 |
What’s typical about IVE-ending words?
IVE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.