These are the meanings of the letters INTERVENTIVE when you unscramble them.
- Intervene (n.)
A coming between; intervention; meeting.
- Intervene (v. i.)
In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- Intervene (v. i.)
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
- Intervene (v. t.)
To come between.
- Inventive (a.)
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.
- Retentive (a.)
Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
- Retentive (n.)
That which retains or confines; a restraint.