Hortative is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 371 anagrams from letters in hortative (aehiorttv).
1600-10; Latin hortātīvus, equivalent to hortāt(us), past participle of hortārī to incite to action, frequentative of horīrī to encourage (akin to yearn) + -īvus
hortative, hort′a-tiv, adj. inciting: encouraging: giving advice—also Hort′atory. The Parson, under high excitement, rained his hortative oratory upon me.Examples for hortative