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There are 16 five-letter words ending with IVE

ALIVE• alive adj. Having life; living; not dead.
• alive adj. In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
• alive adj. Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
BLIVE• blive v. (Intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain").
• blive adv. (Obsolete) quickly; forthwith.
• BLIVE adv. (Spenser) immediately, also BELIVE, BYLIVE.
CHIVE• chive n. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
• chive n. (In the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
• chive n. (Obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
DRIVE• drive n. Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination…
• drive n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• drive n. An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
KNIVE• knive v. Rare form of knife.
• KNIVE v. to knife.
NAIVE• naive adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
• naive adj. Not having been exposed to something.
• naive adj. (Of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
NEIVE• NEIVE n. (archaic) the fist, also NEAFE, NEAFFE, NEIF, NIEF, NIEVE.
OGIVE• ogive n. (Statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
• ogive n. (Architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
• ogive n. (Weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
OLIVE• olive n. A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
• olive n. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
• olive n. The wood of the olive tree.
REIVE• reive v. Archaic spelling of reave.
• REIVE v. (archaic) to plunder, rob, also REAVE, RIEVE.
SHIVE• shive n. A slice, especially of bread.
• shive n. (Obsolete) A sheave.
• shive n. A beam or plank of split wood.
SKIVE• skive v. (Britain, informal) To avoid one’s lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
• skive n. (Britain, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
• skive n. (Britain, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
SLIVE• slive v. (Transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
• slive v. (Transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
• slive n. (Dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.
STIVE• stive n. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
• stive v. (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
• stive n. Obsolete form of stew.
SWIVE• swive v. (Archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).
• swive v. (Archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
• SWIVE v. (archaic) to have sexual intercourse with.
WAIVE• waive v. (Transitive, law) To relinquish (A right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
• waive v. (Now rare) To put aside, avoid.
• waive v. (Obsolete) To outlaw (someone).

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
Definitions are short excerpt from the WikWik.org and 1Word.ws.

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