Phrase Hound found 37 phrases and 17 compound words that contain families. The most common are listed below. Open families in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 37
- working familiesplural of working family: A family in the working class.
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- single-parent familiesplural of single-parent family: A nuclear family with only one parent.
- first familiesplural of first family: The family of the President of the United States.
- found familiesplural of found family: A non-biologically related group of people who provide ongoing social support to one another, in the same way that family members might support one another.
- happy familiesA children's card game played with a pack of 44 picture cards that depict a father, mother son and daughter of 11 families mostly having occupational surnames (e.g. Mr Bun the Baker); players have to collect entire families
- language familiesplural of language family: A set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor.
- word familiesplural of word family: A set of etymologically related words consisting of a single word with its inflections and derivations, such as walk, walked, walks, walking, walkings, walker, walkers, walkies, walkable, walkathon.
- royal familiesplural of royal family: The family of the ruling sovereign of a country or state.
- extended familiesplural of extended family: A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
- gene familiesplural of gene family: A group of closely related genes that make similar gene products.
- nuclear familiesplural of nuclear family: The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
- host familiesplural of host family
- foster familiesplural of foster family: A family having at least one foster child.
- C familiesplural of C family: Any one of the several programming languages which share significant features of the C programming language.
- county familiesplural of county family: In Britain and Ireland, a family of the landed gentry.
- second familiesplural of second family: The family of the Vice President of the United States.
- joint familiesplural of joint family: A household consisting of two or more closely-related nuclear families, such as two or more brothers along with their wives and children, or multiple generations along with spouses.
- families of orientationplural of family of orientation: The family in which a person grows up.
- blended familiesplural of blended family: A stepfamily in which both new spouses have one or more living children from prior partners.
- accidents will happen in the best regulated familiesAccidents will always happen, even where there is an expectation of success.
- immediate familiesplural of immediate family: A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children.
- Sperner familiesplural of Sperner family: A family F of subsets of a finite set E in which none of the sets contains another; or, equivalently, an antichain in the inclusion lattice over the power set of E.
- chosen familiesplural of chosen family: A group of people who are not biologically related but who have formed a supportive group that fills the role normally expected to be supplied by the family one is born into.
- gold star familiesplural of gold star family: the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action.
Compound words 17
- subfamiliesplural of subfamily: A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
- stepfamiliesplural of stepfamily: Any family having one or more stepchildren or stepparents.
- superfamiliesplural of superfamily: A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions).
- biofamiliesplural of biofamily: Biological family.
- birthfamiliesplural of birthfamily: Biological family.
- epifamiliesplural of epifamily: A rank between family and superfamily.
- godfamiliesplural of godfamily: A group of people who are closely related to one another by godparent/godchild ties (including godsiblings, godaunts, etc).
- infrafamiliesplural of infrafamily: A rank below subfamily
- macrofamiliesplural of macrofamily: A grouping of two or more language families that share some relationship
- merfamiliesplural of merfamily: A family of merfolk.