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— English words —

• inheritance n. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
• inheritance n. (Countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
• inheritance n. (Uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
• inheritance n. (Biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
• inheritance n. (Programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available…

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• inheritance n. Erfenis.

— English words, defined in French —

• inheritance n. (Droit) Héritage, patrimoine.
• inheritance n. (Programmation orientée objet) Héritage.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• inheritance s. Herencia.
• inheritance s. Sucesión.

45 English words from 5 English definitions

act algorithms ancestors are attributes available biological biology Countable death entitled especially estate from genetic genetic␣algorithms having hereditarily inherit inherited inheriting law linguistics mechanism object object-oriented of␣a offspring oriented parts passed passing person programming state superclass testament That the their title Uncountable upon whereby which

2 English words from 5 foreign definitions

Droit objet

7 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

Erfenis Herencia Héritage orientée patrimoine Programmation Sucesión

6 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

inheritances inheritance␣law inheritance␣tax inheritance␣taxes inheritance␣powder inheritance␣powders

3 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

coinheritances disinheritances misinheritances

7 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

coinheritance disinheritance misinheritance noninheritance blending␣inheritance multiple␣inheritance classical␣inheritance

15 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ANC -ance Eri. her Her heritance inherit ita ITA NHE rit Rita tan Tan TAN

13 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CNA ire IrE IRE Ire. nat Nat NAT Nat. reh Tir TIR tire

4 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

inheritances interchained intermachine Titchenerian

8 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

cantinière ceratinine Cerinthian Chennaiite creatinine incinerate interchain itinerance

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

enheritance inheritence

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