he·red·i·ty 
(hə-rĕdĭ-tē)
(hə-rĕdĭ-tē)n. pl. he·red·i·ties
1. The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
2. The sum of characteristics and associated potentialities transmitted genetically to an individual organism.
[French hérédité, from Old French heredite, inheritance, from Latin hērēditās, from hērēs, hērēd-, heir; see ghē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- communicant
- communicate
- communication
- communicational
- communication disorder
- communication engineering
- communicative
- communicatively
- communicativeness
- surround sound
- surtax
- surtitle
- Suruga Bay
- surveil
- surveillance
- surveillant
- survey
- survey course
- surveying
- surveyor
- surveyor's level
- survivability
- survivable
- survival
- survivalist