atavism /atˈə-vi-zm/

1. The reappearance of ancestral, but not parental, characteristics
2. Reversion to an ancestral, or to a primitive, type

atavistˈic adjective

atavistˈically adverb

• matter
• mattered
• matterful
• mattering
• matterless
• matter-of-fact
• matter-of-factly
• matter-of-factness
• matters
• mattery
• mattes
• Matthaean
• mattie
• matties
• matting
• frontage
• frontager
• frontagers
• frontages
• frontal
• frontals
• front bench
• front-bench
• front-bencher
• front-benchers