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Est. 1828
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'initiative'
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3 syllables

  • disjunctive
  • fixative
  • fricative
  • primitive
  • privative
  • inchoative
  • leitmotiv
  • liberative
  • dilative
  • kishinev
  • ligative
  • scribblative
  • siccative

4 syllables

  • acquisitive
  • derivative
  • diminutive
  • duplicative
  • indicative
  • inhibitive
  • irritative
  • prohibitive
  • retributive
  • cogitative
  • colligative
  • contributive
  • explicative
  • implicative
  • combinative
  • conciliative
  • designative
  • entitative
  • estimative
  • excitative
  • exhibitive
  • incipiative
  • judicative
  • opiniative
  • unprimitive
  • vindicative

5 syllables

  • deliberative
  • multiplicative
  • continuative
  • reduplicative
  • annihilative
  • commiserative
  • complete primitive
  • first derivative
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonderivative
  • prejudicative
  • prereplicative
  • subderivative
  • subindicative
  • the indicative
  • underivative

6 syllables

  • antiderivative
  • aeroderivative
  • partial derivative
  • second derivative

7 syllables

  • primary derivative

8 syllables

  • secondary derivative

9 syllables

  • purified protein derivative

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Adjectives for initiative:

  • petition
  • statute
  • decision
  • period
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  • reindustrialization
  • organizational chart
  • approach
  • framework
  • movement
  • anguishing
  • task force
  • bill
  • expansion
  • reinvigoration
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