Words ending in VE
There are 1,183 words ending in VE in our word list, from 3 to 15 letters long. Lists are grouped by length with the most common words first, for Scrabble, Words With Friends, Wordle and crosswords.
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Common words ending in VE
- above
- achieve
- active
- alive
- alternative
- approve
- arrive
- attractive
- behave
- believe
- comprehensive
- definitive
- derive
- drive
- drove
- effective
- excessive
- exclusive
- expensive
- extensive
- five
- gave
- give
- grave
- have
- improve
- involve
- leave
- live
- love
- massive
- move
- naive
- negative
- observe
- positive
- preserve
- primitive
- prove
- receive
- relative
- remove
- representative
- reserve
- save
- sensitive
- serve
- solve
- survive
- twelve
- abusive
- addictive
- adjective
- administrative
- aggressive
- archive
- brave
- cave
- collective
- comparative
Common words are shown in bold. Linked words open their dictionary definition.
3-letter words ending in VE (2)
- eve
- ave
4-letter words ending in VE (29)
- five
- gave
- give
- have
- live
- love
- move
- save
- cave
- dive
- rave
- wave
- wive
- cove
- dove
- eave
- hive
- hove
- pave
- wove
- jive
- rove
- nave
- fave
- gyve
- lave
- rive
- vive
- neve
5-letter words ending in VE (62)
- above
- alive
- drive
- drove
- grave
- leave
- naive
- prove
- serve
- solve
- brave
- curve
- glove
- halve
- nerve
- shove
- slave
- valve
- calve
- carve
- clove
- crave
- delve
- grove
- heave
- mauve
- olive
- peeve
- salve
- shave
- sieve
- stave
- stove
- suave
- verve
- waive
- weave
- chive
- agave
- knave
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6-letter words ending in VE (57)
- active
- arrive
- behave
- derive
- remove
- twelve
- evolve
- motive
- native
- shelve
- starve
- strive
- thieve
- alcove
- cleave
- endive
- grieve
- groove
- octave
- relive
- revive
- sheave
- sleeve
- strove
- swerve
- thrive
- behove
- dative
- shrive
- votive
- repave
- rewove
- glaive
- greave
- pareve
- regive
- sleave
- steeve
- thrave
- unlive
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7-letter words ending in VE (95)
- achieve
- approve
- believe
- improve
- involve
- massive
- observe
- receive
- reserve
- survive
- abusive
- archive
- deprive
- deserve
- forgave
- forgive
- passive
- relieve
- resolve
- absolve
- beehive
- bereave
- captive
- concave
- deceive
- deprave
- devolve
- elusive
- emotive
- engrave
- enslave
- evasive
- festive
- furtive
- missive
- outlive
- pensive
- reprove
- restive
- revolve
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8-letter words ending in VE (118)
- negative
- positive
- preserve
- relative
- conceive
- contrive
- creative
- perceive
- retrieve
- abortive
- abrasive
- adaptive
- additive
- adhesive
- conserve
- decisive
- disprove
- dissolve
- divisive
- effusive
- elective
- fugitive
- inactive
- incisive
- laxative
- mangrove
- punitive
- putative
- reactive
- reprieve
- sedative
- adoptive
- aggrieve
- coercive
- invasive
- nosedive
- ablative
- allusive
- cohesive
- conclave
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9-letter words ending in VE (158)
- effective
- excessive
- exclusive
- expensive
- extensive
- primitive
- sensitive
- addictive
- adjective
- defective
- defensive
- detective
- directive
- executive
- explosive
- incentive
- inclusive
- intensive
- intuitive
- microwave
- narrative
- objective
- offensive
- recursive
- repulsive
- selective
- tentative
- assertive
- attentive
- cognitive
- conducive
- corrosive
- deceptive
- deductive
- digestive
- evocative
- expansive
- expletive
- formative
- imitative
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10-letter words ending in VE (176)
- attractive
- definitive
- aggressive
- collective
- cumulative
- derivative
- exhaustive
- imperative
- impressive
- indicative
- initiative
- innovative
- productive
- repetitive
- respective
- subjective
- successive
- automotive
- compulsive
- conclusive
- connective
- convulsive
- corrective
- decorative
- diminutive
- disapprove
- disbelieve
- dismissive
- disruptive
- expressive
- figurative
- indecisive
- infinitive
- interweave
- locomotive
- nominative
- oppressive
- perceptive
- permissive
- persuasive
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11-letter words ending in VE (178)
- alternative
- comparative
- competitive
- consecutive
- descriptive
- destructive
- distinctive
- imaginative
- ineffective
- informative
- insensitive
- interactive
- perspective
- prospective
- provocative
- restrictive
- affirmative
- associative
- commutative
- cooperative
- inexpensive
- inoffensive
- inoperative
- inquisitive
- instinctive
- instructive
- legislative
- obstructive
- preconceive
- prerogative
- progressive
- prohibitive
- qualitative
- radioactive
- retroactive
- speculative
- subjunctive
- superlative
- hyperactive
- inattentive
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12-letter words ending in VE (132)
- conservative
- constructive
- irrespective
- appreciative
- apprehensive
- disincentive
- illustrative
- inconclusive
- intransitive
- preservative
- quantitative
- reproductive
- unattractive
- manipulative
- prescriptive
- unproductive
- unresponsive
- accumulative
- alliterative
- constrictive
- consultative
- degenerative
- distributive
- exploitative
- interpretive
- nonobjective
- preventative
- recuperative
- regenerative
- remunerative
- underachieve
- unimpressive
- vituperative
- deliberative
- ditransitive
- inexpressive
- psychoactive
- adjudicative
- ameliorative
- augmentative
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13-letter words ending in VE (93)
- comprehensive
- argumentative
- authoritative
- collaborative
- communicative
- contemplative
- contraceptive
- demonstrative
- introspective
- retrospective
- unimaginative
- uninformative
- commemorative
- investigative
- corroborative
- interrogative
- nonproductive
- oversensitive
- postoperative
- retrogressive
- uncooperative
- commiserative
- counteractive
- electromotive
- nonautomotive
- noncumulative
- nonsuccessive
- overattentive
- accommodative
- acculturative
- agglomerative
- agglutinative
- anticorrosive
- concentrative
- configurative
- contaminative
- determinative
- extrapolative
- frequentative
- gesticulative
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14-letter words ending in VE (56)
- representative
- administrative
- multiplicative
- hypersensitive
- interpretative
- noncompetitive
- nonrestrictive
- overprotective
- photosensitive
- unappreciative
- reconstructive
- nonconsecutive
- nondestructive
- nonradioactive
- overaggressive
- rehabilitative
- ultrasensitive
- chemoreceptive
- contrapositive
- deconstructive
- discriminative
- disintegrative
- inappreciative
- noncooperative
- nondistinctive
- proprioceptive
- radiosensitive
- redintegrative
- redistributive
- superexpensive
- supersensitive
- anticonvulsive
- antiderivative
- antireflective
- antisubversive
- conglomerative
- cryoprotective
- disaggregative
- immunoreactive
- interoperative
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15-letter words ending in VE (27)
- neoconservative
- uncommunicative
- undemonstrative
- nonconstructive
- superconductive
- electronegative
- electropositive
- excommunicative
- incommunicative
- subcontraoctave
- anticompetitive
- antiprogressive
- antispeculative
- hyperaggressive
- hyperresponsive
- intersubjective
- intussusceptive
- nonconservative
- nonexploitative
- nonquantitative
- nonreproductive
- overimaginative
- phosphorylative
- photoconductive
- prognosticative
- radioprotective
- retroreflective