heiress

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: heir=ess

CIDE DICTIONARY

heiress, n. 

 A female heir.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

heiress, n. a female heir, esp. to wealth or high title.

THESAURUS

heiress

apparent heir, beneficiary heir, child, coparcener, daughter, descendant, fideicommissary heir, fiduciary heir, foster child, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, heir, heir apparent, heir expectant, heir general, heir in tail, heir of entail, heir of inventory, heir of line, heir portioner, heir presumptive, heir whatsoever, heritor, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, joint heir, next in line, offspring, presumptive heir, remainderman, reversioner, scion, son, son and heir, sonny, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, successor

ROGET THESAURUS

heiress

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.