8-Letter Words Starting: ADOP

• of parents and children; related by adoption

• acquired as your own by free choice

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

• take up and practice as one's own

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

• take into one's family

• put into dramatic form

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

• someone (such as a child) who has been adopted

• a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child