Family

2. in some societies, an amount of money or property that a woman's parents give to the man she marries
6. a child whose parents are dead
7. a man who has never married
9. to receive money, a house, etc. from someone after they have died
12. a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild
14. to make someone officially a member of the Christian Church in a service of baptism
16. humorous or formal a person's children
18. the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him or her
19. the speed at which something happens or changes

1. to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child
3. a man whose wife has died and who has not married again
4. a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry
5. of or like a father
8. a situation in which people, businesses, etc. compete with each other for the same thing
10. a holiday taken by a couple immediately after their marriage
11. a formal party at which important people are welcomed
13. behaving or feeling in the way that a mother does towards her child, especially in a kind, loving way
15. a person's husband or wife
17. the man who someone is engaged to be married to