Protective is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 420 anagrams from letters in protective (ceeioprttv).
First recorded in 1655-65; protect + -ive
Former Texas governor Ann Richards was a big fan of the Texas Rangers, a contingent of which was her protective detail.
Among birds, the ptarmigan is a fine example of protective colouring.
There was protective tenderness in the gesture and the touch.
Overnight people shed their fears, their protective camouflage and their restraints.
By drawing boundaries against wrongful conduct, law provides a protective zone of freedom within those boundaries.
Spencer had returned from Guinea on Oct. 17, saying he was confident his protective gear had kept him from becoming infected.
He had been moved, he supposed now, by a protective sentiment.
But to the cub the spectacle of her protective rage was pleasing.
For instance, how do you balance honesty with any protective urge?
Why, the order of nature is reversed, and these children take on the protective.
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