- avuncular: like an uncle
- bigamy: marriage to two mates
- familial: having to do with the family
- fraternal: pertaining to brothers; brotherly
- fraternize: to be friendly with OR to socialize with an enemy population
- matriarchy: a society ruled or controlled by women
- matriculate: to register as a student at a college or university
- matrix: the surroundings within which something begins or develops
- monogamy: marriage to a single mate
- patriarch: the male head of a family or tribe OR an Old Testament ancestor OR a founding father or wise man
- patrimony: a family inheritance
- patronage: support; encouragement OR business clientele; customers
- patronize: to go to regularly OR to treat someone as an inferior
- patronymic: a name derived from a paternal ancestor
- uxorious: dominated by one's wife