Costive is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 178 anagrams from letters in costive (ceiostv).
1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French *costif, for Middle French costivé, past participle of costiver to constipate Latin constīpāre (see constipate)
The stool may be normal or costive, but is very often diarrhoetic.
I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
As he was costive, pills of aloes and steel were ordered to be taken occasionally.
He took no other medicine, except a little rhubarb when costive.
costive, kos′tiv, adj. having the motion of the bowels too slow: constipated.
The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air.
As one says, "What is more offensive than the breath of a costive child?"
Next Day, the 21st, her Blood appeared very sizy, and she complained of having been costive for some Days.
I finds un fine to hunt with, and 'tis not so costive as the others.
If they are costive, put in a little melted lard, or some kind of inoffensive oil.