User:Matthias Buchmeier/fr-en-f
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| fa {m} [music] | :: fa, the note 'F' |
| façade {f} | :: façade (deceptive outward appearance) |
| façade {f} | :: façade (of a building) |
| fabacée {f} [biology] | :: legume (of family Fabaceae) |
| fabien {adj} | :: Fabian |
| Fabien {prop} | :: given name, cognate to Fabian |
| Fabienne {prop} | :: given name, the feminine form of Fabien ( =Fabian ) |
| fable {f} | :: fable, story |
| fabliau {m} | :: fabliau |
| fabricant {mf} | :: artisan, maker |
| fabricant {m} | :: manufacturer, producer |
| fabricateur {m} | :: fabricator |
| fabrication {f} | :: fabrication |
| fabrication {f} | :: manufacture, manufacturing |
| fabrication {f} | :: production |
| Fabrice {prop} | :: given name |
| fabrique {f} | :: factory, plant (factory or industrial facility) |
| fabriquer {v} | :: to make; to create |
| fabulateur {adj} | :: fantasizing |
| fabulateur {m} | :: fantasizer |
| fabuler {vi} | :: to fantasize |
| fabulette {f} | :: lie |
| fabulette {f} | :: tale, fable |
| fabuleusement {adv} | :: fabulously |
| fabuleux {adj} | :: fabled |
| fabuleux {adj} | :: fabulous |
| fabulisme {m} | :: fabulism |
| fabuliste {adj} | :: fabulist |
| fabuliste {mf} | :: fabulist |
| fac {f} [colloquial] | :: university |
| face {f} | :: face (anatomy) |
| face {f} | :: face (geometry) |
| face {f} | :: head (of a coin) |
| face {f} | :: surface, side |
| face à {prep} | :: facing towards |
| face à {prep} | :: versus, against; faced with |
| facetté {adj} | :: facetted |
| facette {f} | :: facet |
| facetter {v} | :: to facet |
| facho {adj} [slang] | :: fascist, right-wing |
| facho {mf} [slang] | :: fascist, right-winger |
| facial {adj} | :: facial |
| facile {adj} | :: easy, simple |
| facilement {adv} | :: easily |
| facilité {adj} | :: facilitated |
| facilité {f} | :: ease, easiness |
| facilitateur {m} | :: facilitator |
| facilitation {f} | :: facilitation |
| faciliter {v} | :: facilitate |
| faciès {m} | :: Facies; appearance |
| fac-similé {m} | :: alternative form of facsimilé |
| facsimilé {m} | :: facsimile |
| facsimilé {m} | :: fax |
| factage {m} | :: drayage (transportation of goods or baggage) |
| facteur {m} | :: factor; element |
| facteur {m} [mathematics] | :: factor |
| facteur {m} | :: postman [UK]; mailman [US] |
| factice {adj} | :: fake, artificial, false |
| facticement {adv} | :: artificially |
| facticement {adv} | :: falsely |
| facétie {f} | :: practical joke |
| facétieusement {adv} | :: facetiously |
| factieusement {adv} | :: factiously, provocatively |
| facétieux {adj} | :: facetious |
| factieux {adj} | :: factious, agitating, provocative |
| factieux {m} | :: agitator, provocator |
| faction {f} | :: act of keeping watch |
| faction {f} | :: a watchman |
| faction {f} [politics] | :: a faction; specifically one which causes trouble |
| factionnaire {m} | :: A soldier who is on guard; sentry, sentinel, guard |
| factitif {adj} | :: factitive |
| factitif {m} | :: factitive |
| factorerie {f} | :: The office or factory of a colonial agent or factor |
| factoriel {adj} [mathematics] | :: factorial |
| factorielle {f} [mathematics] | :: factorial (mathematical operation or its result) |
| factorisation {f} | :: factorisation |
| factoriser {v} [mathematics] | :: to factorize |
| factrice {f} | :: feminine noun of facteur |
| factuel {adj} | :: factual |
| factuellement {adv} | :: factually |
| facturation {f} | :: invoicing |
| facture {f} | :: bill, invoice |
| facture {f} | :: craft, making, fabric |
| facturer {vt} | :: to charge, invoice, bill |
| facturette {f} | :: credit card slip (for old-style credit cards that require a signature) |
| facturier {m} | :: invoice clerk |
| facturière {f} | :: feminine noun of facturier |
| faculté {f} | :: [by extension] a university |
| faculté {f} | :: capacity; ability |
| faculté {f} | :: department (of a university) |
| faculté {f} | :: faculty |
| faculté {f} | :: resources |
| facultatif {adj} | :: optional, elective; not mandatory |
| facultativement {adv} | :: optionally, electively |
| fadaise {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: uninteresting or banal thought; twaddle |
| fadasse {adj} | :: wishy-washy (wavering or lacking in commitment, certainty, or support) |
| fade {adj} | :: boring; lukewarm |
| fade {adj} | :: tasteless, insipid |
| fade {m} | :: share of loot / booty |
| fadement {adv} | :: insipidly, blandly |
| fader {vr} [colloquial] | :: to get stuck with |
| fadette {f} | :: fairy |
| fadette {f} [police, slang] | :: A detailed list of phone calls made and received, together with associated GPS information |
| fadeur {f} | :: blandness, dullness, insipidness |
| faena {f} [bullfighting] | :: faena |
| faïence {f} | :: faience |
| faïencerie {f} | :: pottery, earthenware |
| faïencier {m} | :: A person who makes or sells earthenware (faience) |
| faïencière {f} | :: feminine singular of faïencier |
| fafiot {m} [slang] | :: any written paper |
| fafiot {m} [slang] | :: banknote |
| fafiot {m} [slang] | :: cheat sheet |
| fagacée {f} | :: beech (any member of Fagaceae) |
| fagoté {adj} | :: togged up |
| fagot {m} | :: fagot (bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together) |
| fagoter {vt} | :: to bundle |
| fagoter {vt} | :: to tog up (wear special clothes) |
| faiblard {adj} | :: feeble, weak |
| faiblard {m} | :: weakling |
| faible {adj} | :: lacking endurance |
| faible {adj} | :: weak |
| faible {m} | :: weakness (for someone/something) |
| faiblement {adv} | :: dimly (not brightly) |
| faiblement {adv} | :: slightly; mildly (not sharply) |
| faiblement {adv} | :: weakly |
| faiblesse {f} | :: weakness |
| faiblir {v} | :: to weaken, to get weaker |
| faiblissant {adj} | :: weakening |
| faict {m} | :: obsolete spelling of fait |
| faignant {adj} | :: alternative form of feignant |
| faignant {m} | :: alternative form of feignant |
| faille {f} | :: flaw |
| faille {f} | :: geographical fault |
| faillibilité {f} | :: fallibility |
| faillible {adj} | :: fallible |
| failliblement {adv} | :: fallibly |
| faillir {v} | :: to almost do something |
| faillir {v} | :: to fail |
| faillir {v} | :: to go bankrupt |
| faillite {f} | :: bankruptcy |
| faillite {f} | :: failure |
| faim {f} | :: hunger (desire of food) |
| faim {f} | :: hunger (strong desire) |
| fainéant {adj} | :: apathetic |
| fainéant {adj} | :: lazy |
| fainéant {adj} | :: nonchalant |
| fainéant {m} | :: a lazybones; one who makes little or no effort |
| fainéante {f} | :: feminine noun of fainéant |
| fainéanter {v} | :: to do nothing; to be idle; to faff |
| fainéantise {f} | :: idleness |
| faire {v} [impersonal] | :: To be [of the weather or various situations] |
| faire {vr} [~ à] | :: to become used to (see se faire une raison) |
| faire {vr} [followed by an infinitive] | :: to be (used for a passive action) |
| faire {vr} | :: to become, to get |
| faire {vr} | :: to do, to make (oneself) |
| faire {vr} | :: to ripen [of fruit], to mature (, etc.) |
| faire {vrt} [slang] | :: to do (to have sex with) |
| faire {vt} | :: to do |
| faire {vt} | :: to make |
| faire {vt} | :: to make (cause someone or something to do something) |
| faire {vt} | :: to say [of a person], to go (of an animal) |
| faire abstraction {v} | :: [~ de] to forget; to ignore, to set aside |
| faire barrage à {v} | :: to stand in the way of |
| faire caca {v} [childish] | :: to poo (defecate) |
| faire cas {v} | :: [~ de] to have a high opinion (of), to esteem |
| faire chaud {v} | :: to be hot (of the weather) |
| faire chier {v} [vulgar slang] | :: to have a (fucking) nightmare, to be pissed off |
| faire chier {v} [vulgar slang] | :: to piss off, to annoy or irritate |
| faire confiance {v} | :: to trust; to have trust in (someone, something) |
| faire cul sec {v} | :: to finish one's drink in one go; to down; "Bottoms up!" |
| faire demi-tour {v} | :: to go back (or to drive back, etc.) before arriving to one's destination, or when there was no fixed destination |
| faire des courbettes {v} [figuratively] | :: to bow and scrape |
| faire des salamalecs {v} [idiomatic] | :: to grovel, kowtow; to drown (someone) in courtesies |
| faire défaut {v} [legal] | :: to default |
| faire défaut {v} | :: to be lacking |
| faire d'une pierre deux coups {v} | :: to kill two birds with one stone |
| faire effet {v} | :: to take effect |
| faire en sorte {v} | :: to see to it, make sure (que that) |
| faire exprès {v} [idiomatic] | :: to do (something) deliberately; to do (something) on purpose |
| faire face {v} [with à] | :: to square up; come up against |
| faire face à {v} | :: to deal with, meet the challenge of |
| faire feu {v} | :: to fire (shoot a weapon) |
| faire fi {v} [with de] | :: to disregard or ignore a factor |
| faire fi {v} [with de] | :: to turn one's nose up (at), disdain |
| faire florès {vi} | :: To flourish, to be successful, to gain a reputation |
| faire froid {v} | :: to be cold (of the weather) |
| faire gaffe {v} [colloquial] | :: to pay attention, to watch out |
| faire genre {v} [slang] | :: to put on airs |
| faire grand cas {v} | :: [~ de] to have a high opinion (of), to esteem |
| faire la connaissance {v} | :: to get to know |
| faire la cour {v} | :: to woo; to court |
| faire la fête {phrase} | :: to party, have a party |
| faire la grasse matinée {v} | :: to sleep in, to have a lie in |
| faire la grève {v} | :: to strike; to be on strike |
| faire la leçon {v} [figuratively] | :: to preach, lecture |
| faire la manche {vi} [figuratively] | :: to beg, to panhandle |
| faire la mijaurée {v} [of a woman] | :: to put on airs |
| faire la moue {v} | :: to pout |
| faire l'amour {v} | :: to make love, to have sex |
| faire la noce {phrase} [Switzerland] | :: to party |
| faire la plonge {v} [slang] | :: to wash up, do the washing-up |
| faire la poussière {v} | :: to dust; to do the dusting |
| faire la tête {v} [figuratively] | :: to sulk, to pout |
| faire la une {v} [idiomatic] | :: To hit the headlines (to appear on the front page of a publication) |
| faire l'autruche {v} [figuratively] | :: to bury one's head in the sand, to ignore what is going on |
| faire la vaisselle {vi} | :: to wash up, to wash the dishes, to do the washing-up |
| faire le grand saut {v} [euphemistic, idiomatic] | :: to snuff it, to kick the bucket (to die) |
| faire le gros dos {vi} [idiomatic] | :: to weather the storm, lie low |
| faire le gros dos {vi} [of a cat] | :: to arch one's back |
| faire le lit {v} | :: make the bed (to prepare a bed for later use and for tidiness) |
| faire le ménage {v} [figuratively] | :: to clean up; to clear out |
| faire le ménage {v} [literally] | :: to do the housework, the household chores |
| faire le mort {v} | :: to play dead (to act as though no longer alive) |
| faire le plein {v} [idiomatic] | :: To fill up (with petrol) |
| faire le pont {v} [figuratively] | :: To take an extra day off work in addition to a public holiday that falls on a Thursday or Tuesday, thereby making a four-day weekend. If the public holiday falls on Wednesday, the individual has the option of taking either Monday and Tuesday or Thursday and Friday off |
| faire les cent pas {v} | :: to pace up and down |
| faire les courses {vi} | :: to do the shopping, to do the shopping errands |
| faire les frais {v} | :: to bear the brunt (of) |
| faire le trottoir {v} [figuratively] | :: to act as a prostitute |
| faire long feu {v} | :: to fizzle out |
| faire machine arrière {v} [figuratively] | :: to backpedal, retreat, do a U-turn |
| faire machine arrière {v} [nautical] | :: to go astern |
| faire mal {v} | :: to hurt (to cause pain) |
| faire marche arrière {phrase} | :: to backpedal |
| faire marche arrière {phrase} | :: to turn back, go backwards |
| faire marcher {v} [idiomatic] | :: to fool someone, usually as a joke |
| faire marcher {v} [literally] | :: to make someone walk |
| faire mieux de {v} | :: had better |
| faire minette {v} [idiomatic slang, vulgar] | :: to eat pussy; to perform cunnilingus |
| faire mouche {vi} [idiomatic] | :: to hit the bullseye |
| faire mumuse {v} [childish, colloquial] | :: to play around |
| faire noir {v} [idiomatic] | :: To be dark, especially when it's night |
| faire noir comme chez le loup {v} [simile, impersonal] | :: To be dark to the point where one can't see; to be pitch-dark |
| faire noir comme dans un four {v} [simile, impersonal] | :: To be dark to the point where one can't see; to be pitch-dark |
| faire office de {v} | :: to act as |
| faire office de {v} | :: to serve as |
| faire-part {m} | :: announcement |
| faire partie de {v} | :: to be a part of |
| faire peu de cas {v} | :: [~ de] to neglect, to disregard, to consider trivial |
| faire peur {vt} [with à] | :: to frighten |
| faire pipi {v} [childish] | :: to wee (urinate) |
| faire place {vi} | :: to give way; to make way (à for) |
| faire péter {vt} [familiar] | :: To pass, hand something |
| faire route {vi} | :: advance, move, travel |
| faire savoir {v} | :: to inform, to let someone know |
| faire semblant {v} | :: to pretend |
| faire ses choux gras {v} | :: to have a field day |
| faire signe {v} | :: to signal; to gesticulate; to indicate using gestures |
| faire son possible {v} | :: to do one's best, do one's utmost |
| faire tache {v} [idiomatic] | :: to not belong; to stand out awkwardly |
| faire état {v} | :: [~ de] to cite, to mention, to give an account |
| faire état {v} | :: [~ de] to give (something) some thought, to consider |
| faire une carte de France {v} [euphemistic, slang] | :: to have a wet dream |
| faire une carte de France {v} [literally] | :: to make a map of France |
| faire une montagne d'une taupinière {v} [idiomatic] | :: to make a mountain out of a molehill |
| faire un pied de nez {v} | :: to thumb one's nose |
| faire un sang d'encre {vr} | :: to be worried sick, to be worried to death |
| faire un tabac {v} | :: to be a hit |
| faire un tour {v} | :: to take a stroll, to go for a walk |
| faire valoir {v} | :: to assert, affirm |
| fair-play {m} | :: fair play |
| faisabilité {f} | :: feasibility, doability |
| faisable {adj} | :: feasible; doable (able to be done) |
| faisan {m} | :: pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae) |
| faisandé {adj} | :: corrupt, decadent |
| faisandé {adj} | :: gamy, high (of meat) |
| faisane {f} | :: feminine noun of faisan |
| faisceau {m} | :: beam, ray |
| faisceau {m} | :: bundle, sheaf, cluster |
| faisceau {m} | :: fasces |
| fais ce que je dis pas ce que je fais {proverb} | :: do as I say, not as I do |
| fais de beaux rêves {phrase} | :: sweet dreams |
| faiseur {m} | :: maker |
| faiseur {m} | :: tailor |
| faiseur d'anges {m} [euphemistic] | :: Someone who carries out an abortion |
| faiseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of faiseur |
| faiseuse d'anges {f} | :: feminine noun of faiseur d'anges |
| faisselle {f} | :: cheese strainer |
| faisselle {f} | :: curd cheese |
| fait {adj} | :: cut out |
| fait {adj} | :: done |
| fait {m} | :: fact |
| fait accompli {m} | :: a fait accompli, a done deal |
| fait divers {m} [idiomatic] | :: news story |
| faites vos jeux {phrase} [gambling] | :: place your bets, faites vos jeux (call made by the croupier) |
| fait maison {adj} | :: homemade (made at home) |
| faitout {m} | :: stewpot (large cooking pot with handles and a lid) |
| fait que {conj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: So, therefore, in that case |
| fait-tout {m} | :: alternative spelling of faitout |
| faix {m} [literary or dated] | :: burden, heavy load |
| fak {conj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: Phonetic, vernacular spelling of fait que |
| fakir {m} | :: fakir (all meanings) |
| féal {adj} [obsolete] | :: faithful |
| FAL {m} | :: FAL, FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle) |
| falaise {f} | :: cliff (steep rock face) |
| falbala {m} | :: furbelow (a flashy ornament) |
| falbala {m} | :: furbelow (a ruffle) |
| falconiforme {m} | :: bird belonging to Falconiforms |
| falisque {m} | :: Faliscan (language) |
| falklandais {adj} | :: Falkland |
| Falklandais {m} | :: a Falklander |
| Falklandaise {f} | :: feminine noun of Falklandais |
| fallacieusement {adv} | :: deceptively, fallaciously |
| fallacieux {adj} | :: fallacious (characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken) |
| falloir {v} [impersonal] | :: to be necessary |
| falloir {v} | :: to take (time) |
| falot {adj} | :: droll |
| falot {m} | :: lantern |
| falotement {adv} | :: drolly |
| falsifiabilité {f} | :: falsifiability |
| falsifiable {adj} | :: falsifiable |
| falsificateur {m} | :: falsifier |
| falsification {f} | :: falsification |
| falsificatrice {f} | :: feminine noun of falsificateur |
| falsifier {v} | :: to falsify (all meanings) |
| faluche {f} | :: A type of dense, white bread from northern France |
| faluche {f} | :: faluche |
| famé {adj} | :: (in combination) Having a specified reputation |
| fameusement {adv} [dated] | :: very |
| fameusement {adv} | :: famously |
| fameux {adj} | :: recognised, well-known, famous |
| familial {adj} | :: familial, relating to a family |
| familialement {adv} | :: familially |
| familiariser {vt} | :: to familiarize |
| familier {adj} | :: familiar (known to one) |
| familier {adj} [linguistics] | :: familiar, informal, colloquial (lexicon) |
| familièrement {adv} | :: colloquially; informally |
| famille {f} [biology] | :: family |
| famille {f} | :: family (group of related people) |
| famille recomposée {f} | :: blended family (a stepfamily in which both new mates have one or more living kids from prior partners) |
| famine {f} | :: famine |
| famélique {adj} | :: half-starved; scrawny |
| famélique {mf} | :: starveling |
| fané {adj} | :: faded |
| fan {f} [Canada] | :: fan (ventilator) |
| fan {mf} | :: fan (admirer, supporter) |
| FAN {prop} {fp} | :: Forces Armées du Nord (Armed Forces of the North), a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War |
| fanal {m} | :: beacon, lamp (of lighthouse) |
| fanal {m} | :: headlight (of train) |
| fanal {m} | :: lantern |
| fanatique {adj} | :: fanatic, fanatical |
| fanatique {mf} | :: fanatic (one who is zealously enthusiastic) |
| fanatiquement {adv} | :: fanatically |
| fanatiser {vt} | :: to fanaticize |
| fanatisme {m} | :: fanaticism (the characteristic or practice of being a fanatic) |
| fane {f} [archaic] | :: dry leaf |
| fane {f} [cooking] | :: The leaf attached to vegetable which are not usually consumed, such as carrot, radishes and cauliflowers |
| fane {f} [gardening, agriculture] | :: The leaves of any vegetable which is not itself a leaf vegetable, and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as potatoes, tomatoes and beans |
| faner {vi} [literary] | :: to make hay |
| faner {vr} | :: to fade, wither |
| faner {vt} [literary] | :: to fade |
| faner {vt} | :: to toss, turn [grass, hay, etc.] |
| faneur {m} | :: haymaker |
| faneur {m} | :: tedder (feminine) |
| faneuse {f} | :: tedder |
| fanfare {f} [music] | :: fanfare |
| fanfaron {adj} | :: boasting |
| fanfaron {m} | :: boaster |
| fanfaronade {f} | :: fanfaronade, boasting, bragging |
| fanfaronnade {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: bragging, boasting |
| fanfaronner {v} | :: to boast, swagger |
| fanfiction {f} | :: fan fiction |
| fanfreluche {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: frill(s); decorative trimmings or embellishments |
| fanfrelucher {vt} | :: to decorate with frills |
| fange {f} [literary, archaic] | :: fen, swamp |
| fange {f} [literary, figurative] | :: filth, baseness, debauchery |
| fange {f} [literary] | :: filth, mire |
| fangeux {adj} | :: abject |
| fangeux {adj} | :: muddy, miry, filthy |
| fanion {m} | :: fanion |
| fanion {m} | :: pennant |
| Fanny {prop} | :: given name borrowed from English; also used as a pet form of Stéphanie |
| fanon {m} [by extension, usually plural] | :: tabs on a banner or pennant |
| fanon {m} | :: dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal) |
| fanon {m} | :: fanon (vestment reserved for the Pope) |
| fanon {m} | :: feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse) |
| fanon {m} [heraldry] | :: bracelet on the right arm |
| fanon {m} [in the plural] | :: baleen plate; baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale) |
| fanon {m} [usually plural] | :: fanon (part of a bishops mitre) |
| fanon {m} | :: wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird) |
| fanonien {adj} | :: Fanonian |
| fanorona {m} | :: The national game of Madagascar, a board game similar to checkers / draughts |
| fantaisie {f} | :: fantasy (something created by the imagination) |
| fantaisie {f} | :: fantasy (something fanciful) |
| fantaisie {f} | :: imagination |
| fantaisie {f} [music] | :: fantasia |
| fantaisiste {adj} | :: fanciful |
| fantaisiste {m} | :: music hall / variety artist |
| fantasie {f} | :: alternative form of fantasy |
| fantasier {v} | :: to imagine |
| fantasmé {adj} | :: chimeric |
| fantasmé {adj} | :: fantasized, dreamt |
| fantasmagorie {f} | :: phantasmagoria |
| fantasmagorique {adj} | :: phantasmagoric |
| fantasmatique {adj} | :: fantastical |
| fantasmatique {adj} | :: phantasmal |
| fantasmatiquement {adv} | :: fantastically |
| fantasmatiquement {adv} | :: phantasmally |
| fantasme {m} [chiefly sexuality] | :: fantasy |
| fantasme {m} [dated] | :: hallucination |
| fantasmer {v} | :: to fantasise |
| fantasque {adj} | :: capricious, unpredictable (character); whimsical, fanciful (story etc.) |
| fantasquement {adv} | :: capriciously |
| fantasquement {adv} | :: fancifully |
| fantassin {m} | :: foot soldier, infantryman |
| fantastique {adj} | :: fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies) |
| fantastiquement {adv} | :: fantastically (in a way related to fantasy) |
| fantasy {f} [literature] | :: fantasy (literary genre) |
| Fantômas {prop} {m} | :: one of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction |
| fantôme {m} | :: ghost |
| fantoche {m} | :: puppet |
| fantomatique {adj} | :: ghostly |
| fantosme {m} | :: obsolete form of fantôme |
| fanzine {m} | :: fanzine |
| fao {abbr} | :: Forces Armées Occidentales, a Chadian insurgent group |
| FAO {abbr} | :: alternative case form of fao |
| façon {f} | :: way; manner; fashion |
| faon {m} | :: fawn (young deer) |
| façon de parler {f} | :: façon de parler |
| façonnable {adj} [rare] | :: malleable, shapeable |
| façonnage {m} | :: shaping, making, processing |
| façonner {vi} | :: to perform labor |
| façonner {vt} | :: to educate morally, spiritually |
| façonner {vt} | :: to work on, to shape, notably with tool(s); to fashion |
| faonner {vi} | :: To fawn; to give birth to a fawn, or young deer |
| façonnier {mf} | :: A person who works in the fashion business |
| FAQ {f} | :: FAQ (foire aux questions) |
| faque {conj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: Phonetic, vernacular spelling of fait que |
| faquin {m} [archaic] | :: wretch, rascal |
| far {m} | :: A traditional Breton cake |
| farad {m} | :: farad |
| faradique {adj} [physics] | :: faradic |
| faramineux {adj} [colloquial] | :: colossal, staggering, incredible |
| faraud {adj} | :: smug |
| farce {f} | :: farce (play) |
| farce {f} | :: stuffing (for meat, etc) |
| farceur {m} [dated] | :: actor who plays in a farce |
| farceur {m} | :: joker; trickster |
| farcir {v} [cooking] | :: to stuff; to applying stuffing to |
| fardé {adj} | :: disguised |
| fardé {adj} | :: made up (i.e. with make-up) |
| fard {m} | :: make-up |
| fardeau {m} | :: burden |
| fardeau {m} [figuratively] | :: A worry or trouble |
| fardeau {m} | :: load |
| farder {v} | :: to disguise |
| farder {v} | :: to make up or paint (the face) |
| farder {v} | :: to represent in a false light; to augment with falsehoods or affectations |
| farder {v} | :: to settle or sink downwards |
| farder {v} | :: to weigh heavily; to be burdensome |
| farfadet {m} | :: elf, leprechaun (or similar small demon) |
| farfelu {adj} [of an idea] | :: ridiculous, harebrained |
| farfelu {adj} [of a person] | :: eccentric, scatty |
| farfouiller {vi} | :: to rummage around |
| faribole {f} [especially, in plural] | :: nonsense, poppycock |
| fariboler {v} | :: to fool about; mess around |
| farigoule {f} [regional] | :: synonym of thym (aromatic herb used in cooking) |
| farinacé {adj} | :: farinaceous |
| farine {f} | :: feed, animal food |
| farine {f} | :: flour, specifically wheat flour |
| fariner {v} | :: to flour (to apply flour to something) |
| farineux {adj} | :: floury, mealy |
| farinier {m} | :: flour merchant |
| farinier {m} | :: miller |
| farinière {f} | :: feminine singular of farinier |
| farniente {m} | :: idleness |
| farnésol {m} [organic compound] | :: farnesol |
| farouche {adj} [of animals] | :: wild, shy of humans |
| farouche {adj} [of supporters] | :: staunch |
| farouche {adj} [of things] | :: savage, dangerous, fierce |
| farouche {adj} [of women] | :: distant, unapproachable |
| farouche {adj} | :: shy, unsociable, retiring, hesitant |
| farouche {adj} | :: stubborn, intransigent |
| farouchement {adv} | :: fiercely, strongly, bitterly, doggedly, rabidly |
| fart {m} | :: wax (for skis) |
| farter {v} | :: to wax skis |
| Far West {prop} {m} [figuratively] | :: a state of lawlessness |
| Far West {prop} {m} | :: The western part of the United States, earlier defined as the American frontier and later as the areas west of the Midwest |
| fasce {f} [heraldiccharge] | :: fess |
| fascié {adj} | :: fasciated, banded |
| fascicule {m} | :: bundle |
| fascicule {m} | :: fascicle |
| fascicule {m} | :: instalment |
| fascinant {adj} | :: fascinating; captivating |
| fascination {f} | :: fascination |
| fasciner {vt} | :: to fascinate |
| fascisant {adj} | :: fascistic |
| fascisme {m} | :: Fascism, an extreme-right totalitarian political regime/ideology |
| fasciste {adj} | :: fascist (supporting the principles of fascism) |
| fasciste {mf} | :: fascist |
| fascistement {adv} | :: fascistically |
| fascistissime {adj} | :: Very fascist |
| faste {adj} | :: auspicious |
| faste {m} | :: splendour; pomp |
| fastidieusement {adv} | :: tiresomely; boringly |
| fastidieux {adj} | :: tedious; tiresome; boring |
| fastoche {adj} [slang] | :: easy |
| fastueusement {adv} | :: sumptuously, lavishly |
| fastueux {adj} | :: sumptuous, luxurious |
| fat {adj} | :: conceited |
| faîtage {m} | :: ridge (of a roof) |
| faîtage {m} | :: ridgepole |
| fatal {adj} | :: fatal (causing death) |
| fatal {adj} | :: fatal (due to fate) |
| fatalement {adv} | :: fatally |
| fatalisme {m} | :: fatalism |
| fataliste {mf} | :: fatalist |
| fatalité {f} | :: fatality |
| fat bike {m} [winter sports] | :: fat bike |
| fatbike {m} | :: alternate form of fat bike |
| faîte {m} | :: top, summit, pinnacle |
| fatha {mf} | :: fatha |
| fatidique {adj} | :: fated |
| fatidique {adj} | :: fateful |
| fatidiquement {adv} | :: fatedly, fatefully |
| fatigabilité {f} | :: fatigability |
| fatigant {adj} | :: tiresome; annoying; boring |
| fatigant {adj} | :: tiring |
| fatigué {adj} | :: tired |
| fatiguant {adj} | :: tiring, draining |
| fatigue {f} | :: fatigue, weariness |
| fatiguer {vi} | :: to tire |
| fatiguer {vr} | :: to make an effort [especially in the negative] |
| fatiguer {vt} | :: to wear out, to drain |
| Fatimata {prop} {f} | :: given name, widely used in Islamic West Africa |
| fatimide {mf} | :: Fatimid (related to the Fatimid caliphate) |
| faîtière {f} | :: ridge tile |
| fatiste {m} | :: actor in a medieval mystery play |
| fatras {m} | :: jumble, hodgepodge |
| fatuité {f} | :: self-satisfaction, complacency |
| fatwa {f} [Islam] | :: fatwa |
| faubourg {m} | :: suburb |
| faubourien {adj} | :: working class Parisian |
| fauché {adj} [slang] | :: skint, broke or otherwise lacking money |
| fauchage {m} | :: mowing, reaping |
| faucher {v} | :: to mow, to reap |
| faucher {v} | :: to run over, to knock down |
| faucheur {m} | :: harvester (someone who harvests) |
| faucheur {m} | :: harvestman; daddy longlegs |
| Faucheuse {prop} {f} | :: Grim Reaper (a personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe) |
| faucheux {m} | :: daddy longlegs |
| fauchon {m} | :: falchion |
| faucille {f} | :: sickle (agricultural implement) |
| fauciller {v} | :: to sickle (cut with a sickle) |
| faucon {m} | :: falcon |
| fauconnerie {f} | :: falconry |
| fauconnier {m} | :: falconer (a person who breeds or trains hawks) |
| fauconnière {f} | :: feminine noun of fauconnier |
| faufil {m} | :: tacking thread |
| faufilage {m} | :: tacking (in sewing) |
| faufiler {vp} | :: to worm one's way, to slink (about) |
| faufiler {v} [sewing] | :: to baste |
| faune {f} | :: fauna, wildlife |
| faune {m} | :: faun |
| faune {m} | :: tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus) |
| faunesse {f} | :: satyress, fauness |
| faunique {adj} | :: faunistic |
| faunistique {adj} | :: faunal, faunistic |
| faussé {adj} | :: distorted, skewed |
| faussé {adj} | :: falsified |
| faussaire {mf} | :: forger |
| fausse couche {f} | :: miscarriage |
| faussement {adv} | :: falsely; untruly |
| fausse-monnayeuse {f} | :: feminine singular of faux-monnayeur |
| fausse note {f} | :: false note |
| fausser {v} | :: to falsify, to render invalid |
| fausser {v} | :: to skew, to distort (a result) |
| fausseté {f} | :: falseness; falsity |
| fausset {m} [chiefly in the singular] | :: falsetto (type of singing voice) |
| fausset {m} | :: faucet (tap used to stop the flow of liquid from a vessel) |
| faustien {adj} | :: Faustian |
| faute {f} | :: error, mistake |
| faute {f} | :: fault, blame |
| faute {f} [legal] | :: wrong, misdemeanor |
| faute {f} [sports] | :: foul, fault (infraction of the rules) |
| faute de {prep} | :: through lack of; for want of; because of a lack of |
| faute de frappe {f} | :: typo (typographical error) |
| faute de mieux {adv} | :: for want of something better, faute de mieux |
| faute directe {f} [sports] | :: unforced error |
| fauter {vi} | :: to make a mistake, to mess up |
| fauteuil {m} | :: armchair |
| fauteuil à bascule {m} | :: rocking chair (chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked) |
| fauteuil roulant {m} | :: wheelchair |
| fauteur {m} | :: instigator |
| Fauteux {prop} | :: surname |
| fautif {adj} | :: faulty; malfunctioning |
| fautif {adj} | :: incorrect; wrong; erroneous |
| fautivement {adv} | :: wrongly; erroneously |
| fauve {adj} [arts] | :: fauvist from early 20th c |
| fauve {adj} [rare, archaic] | :: savage, fierce (having the ferocity of a wild animal) 19th c |
| fauve {adj} [rare, by extension] | :: dangerous, wild from mid-19th c |
| fauve {adj} | :: tawny |
| fauve {m} | :: a brownish orange color, tawny from mid-19th c |
| fauve {m} [by extension] | :: a big cat, such as a lion or lynx |
| fauve {m} [by extension] | :: beast, wild animal, especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory |
| fauve {m} [dated] | :: tawny-coloured animal from late 16th c |
| fauve {m} [figuratively] | :: a violent or aggressive man or woman |
| fauve {m} [polytechnic jargon, obsolete] | :: examiner |
| fauverie {f} | :: An enclosure for containing and displaying wild animals |
| fauverie {f} | :: The characteristic color of the fauvist artists |
| fauvette {f} | :: warbler |
| fauvisme {m} | :: fauvism |
| faux {adj} | :: false; not real |
| faux {adj} | :: false; untrue |
| faux {adv} | :: badly; inaccurately; untruly |
| faux {f} | :: scythe |
| faux-ami {m} | :: Faux ami, false friend |
| faux bonhomme {m} | :: One who has a false visage of joviality and lightheartedness |
| faux-bourdon {m} | :: A musical style in which a countermelody sung above the melody and another sung below create the impression of a bass that isn't really there |
| faux-bourdon {m} | :: drone (bee) |
| faux-cul {m} | :: hypocrite, phony |
| faux départ {m} | :: false start |
| faux-filet {m} | :: sirloin |
| faux-fuyant {m} | :: prevarication, pretext |
| faux-monnayeur {m} | :: counterfeiter (a person who counterfeits) |
| faux-nez {m} [Internet] | :: sock puppet |
| faux-palais {m} | :: retainer (a device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment) |
| faux pas {m} [figuratively] | :: faux pas, blunder |
| faux pas {m} | :: stumble, misstep, false step |
| faux-plat {m} | :: false flat |
| faveur {f} | :: favour |
| favorable {adj} | :: favourable, favorable |
| favorablement {adv} | :: favorably |
| favori {adj} | :: favourite [UK] / favorite [US] |
| favori {m} | :: favorite |
| favori {m} [in the plural] | :: sideburns, side whiskers |
| favoris {mp} | :: sideburns, side whiskers |
| favorisant {adj} | :: encouraging |
| favorisant {adj} | :: favoring / favouring |
| favorisant {adj} | :: promoting |
| favoriser {v} | :: to favour, to show a preference to something |
| favoriser {v} | :: to prioritise |
| favoriser {v} | :: to promote, encourage, foster |
| favoritisme {m} | :: favoritism, favouritism |
| Favre {prop} | :: surname for a smith |
| favus {m} | :: favus |
| faxer {v} | :: to fax (send a document) |
| fayence {f} [dated] | :: alternative spelling of faïence |
| fayencier {m} | :: alternative form of faïencier |
| fayencière {f} | :: feminine singular of fayencier |
| fayettiste {mf} | :: A supporter of Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette during the French Revolution |
| fayot {m} [France, colloquial] | :: bean |
| fayot {m} [France, colloquial] | :: bootlicker |
| fayoter {v} [France, colloquial] | :: to brownnose |
| FBI {prop} {m} | :: FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) |
| fébrifuge {adj} | :: febrifugal |
| fébrifuge {m} | :: febrifuge |
| fébrile {adj} | :: febrile, feverous, feverish |
| fébrilement {adv} | :: feverishly; feverously |
| fébrilement {adv} [figuratively] | :: erratically; chaotically |
| fébrilité {f} | :: febrility |
| fébrilité {f} | :: feverishness |
| FC {initialism} [Canada, military] | :: Forces canadiennes - CF (Canadian Forces) |
| fécal {adj} | :: fecal (of or relating to feces) |
| fæces {fp} [very, rare] | :: obsolete form of fèces |
| fèces {fp} [medicine, pluralonly] | :: Faeces |
| fèces {fp} [pharmacy, archaic, pluralonly] | :: Sediments depositing in a container of murky or cloudy liquid |
| fâché {adj} | :: angry |
| fâchant {adj} | :: annoying |
| fâcher {vp} | :: to get angry, fall out |
| fâcher {v} | :: to annoy, to vex |
| fâcherie {f} [colloquial] | :: anger |
| fâcheusement {adv} | :: irritatingly; annoyingly |
| fâcheux {adj} | :: annoying; irritating |
| fâcheux {adj} | :: unfortunate; regrettable |
| fécond {adj} | :: abundant (in), rich (in) |
| fécond {adj} [biology] | :: fertile (able to procreate) |
| fécond {adj} | :: fecund |
| fécond {adj} | :: fruit-bearing |
| fécond {adj} | :: fruitful |
| fécond {adj} | :: productive |
| fécondable {adj} | :: fertilisable |
| fécondant {adj} | :: fecund |
| fécondation {f} | :: fertilisation |
| fécondation {f} | :: impregnation |
| fécondation {f} | :: insemination |
| fécondation {f} | :: pollinisation |
| fécondement {adv} | :: fecundly, fruitfully, prolifically |
| féconder {v} | :: to fecundate |
| fécondité {f} | :: fecundity |
| fécondité {f} | :: fertility (state of being fertile) |
| fécondité {f} | :: fruitfulness |
| fécondité {f} [of plants] | :: ability to bear fruits |
| fécondité {f} | :: productivity |
| fécule {f} | :: starch from potatoes, manioc etc |
| féculent {adj} | :: starchy |
| féculent {m} | :: any starchy food |
| fédité {f} | :: fedity |
| fœdité {f} | :: rare spelling of fédité |
| fdpin {adv} | :: P&P included |
| fdpout {adv} | :: P&P not included |
| fédéral {adj} | :: federal |
| fédéralisation {f} | :: federalization |
| fédéraliser {vt} | :: to federalize |
| fédéralisme {m} | :: federalism |
| fédéraliste {adj} | :: federalist |
| fédéraliste {mf} | :: federalist |
| fédérateur {adj} | :: federative, unifying |
| fédérateur {m} | :: unifier |
| fédératif {adj} | :: federative |
| fédération {f} | :: federation |
| fœdération {f} | :: obsolete form of fédération |
| fédérer {v} | :: to federate |
| fée {f} | :: fairy, fay |
| FE {prop} {f} [automotive, sport] | :: abbreviation of Formule E |
| feedback {m} | :: feedback (generic) |
| feeling {m} | :: instinct, hunch |
| feignant {adj} | :: lazy, idle |
| feignant {m} | :: idler, loafer |
| feijoada {f} | :: feijoada |
| feindre {v} | :: to fake; to feign |
| feinter {v} [sports] | :: to feint |
| feintise {f} [dated] | :: disguise |
| feintise {f} [dated] | :: trickery; deceit |
| fellaga {m} | :: A supporter of liberation from French rule in colonial Tunisia and Algeria |
| fellagha {m} | :: fellagha |
| fellateur {m} | :: fellator |
| fellatio {f} [rare, sex] | :: fellatio |
| fellation {f} | :: fellation |
| fellatrice {f} | :: fellatrix |
| felouque {f} | :: felucca |
| femelle {adj} | :: female |
| femelle {f} | :: female (of a species) |
| femme {f} | :: wife |
| femme {f} | :: woman |
| femme au foyer {f} | :: housewife (female head of household) |
| femme de chambre {f} | :: chambermaid |
| femme de charge {f} [dated] | :: housekeeper |
| femme de ménage {f} | :: cleaning woman |
| femme de réconfort {f} | :: comfort woman |
| femme du monde {f} | :: feminine singular of homme du monde |
| femme fatale {f} | :: femme fatale |
| femme fontaine {f} | :: a woman who visibly ejaculates on orgasm |
| femme galante {f} [dated] | :: courtesan |
| femmelette {f} | :: sissy |
| femmelette {f} | :: wimp |
| femme politique {f} | :: a (female) politician |
| femto- {prefix} | :: femto- |
| femtokatal {m} | :: femtokatal |
| femtométrique {adj} | :: femtometric |
| fenaison {f} | :: haymaking |
| fenasse {f} | :: Arrhenatherum elatius |
| fenasse {f} | :: sainfoin |
| fendard {adj} [France, slang] | :: funny, comical |
| fendeur {m} | :: splitter, chopper (person) |
| fendeuse {f} | :: feminine singular of fendeur |
| fendillé {adj} | :: cracked, crazed (surface) |
| fendiller {vt} | :: to crack, craze |
| fendoir {m} | :: cleaver (a squarish knife used for hacking) |
| fendre {v} [figurative] | :: to break (someone's heart) |
| fendre {vr} [se fendre, ~ de] | :: to manage, to come up with |
| fendre {vr} [se fendre, fencing] | :: to lunge |
| fendre {vr} [se fendre, of heart] | :: to break |
| fendre {vr} [se fendre] | :: to crack, to split |
| fendre {v} | :: to shoulder (one's way through a crowd) |
| fendre {v} | :: to split, to chop (wood), to crack |
| fenestre {f} | :: obsolete spelling of fenêtre |
| fenil {m} | :: hayloft, hay loft |
| fennique {adj} | :: Finnic |
| fenouil {m} | :: fennel |
| fente {f} [anatomy] | :: fissure |
| fente {f} | :: cleft, fissure, crack (in rock) |
| fente {f} [fencing] | :: lunge |
| fente {f} | :: slit (in skirt), vent (in jacket etc.) |
| fente {f} | :: slit, slot |
| fente {f} | :: split, crack (in wood) |
| fente {f} [vulgar, slang] | :: crack, slit (vagina) |
| fenêtre {f} | :: window |
| fenugrec {m} | :: fenugreek (the herb) |
| fenugrec {m} | :: fenugreek (the plant) |
| fer {m} [golf] | :: iron |
| fer {m} [in the plural, archaic] | :: irons, fetters |
| fer {m} | :: iron |
| fer {m} | :: iron (appliance) |
| fer {m} | :: shoe (for horse); steel tip |
| fer-blanc {m} | :: tin, tinplate |
| ferblanterie {f} | :: tinplate (objects, manufacture) |
| ferblantier {m} | :: tinsmith |
| ferblantière {f} | :: feminine noun of ferblantier |
| ferbérite {f} [mineral] | :: ferberite |
| fer à cheval {m} | :: horseshoe |
| fer de lance {m} | :: fer-de-lance (snake) |
| fer de lance {m} [figuratively] | :: spearhead |
| fer de lance {m} [literally] | :: spearhead, arrowhead |
| fer à friser {m} | :: curling iron |
| féerie {f} | :: any fictional universe involving magical creatures such as fairies, ogres and dragons |
| féerie {f} | :: extravaganza |
| féerie {f} | :: faerie, féerie |
| féerie {f} [figuratively] | :: something impressive and/or enchanting |
| féerie {f} | :: what fairies do |
| féerique {adj} | :: relating to fairies |
| féerique {adj} | :: relating to fairytales |
| ferler {v} [nautical] | :: to furl, to roll up (a sail) |
| fermé {adj} | :: closed |
| fermage {m} | :: The rent in a contract passed between a landlord and a farmer (affermage). Its amount is set in advance, independent of the results of exploitation |
| ferme {adj} | :: firm |
| ferme {f} [carpentry] | :: roof truss |
| ferme {f} | :: farm |
| fermement {adv} | :: firmly, strongly, tightly |
| fermement {adv} | :: hard |
| fermenté {adj} | :: fermented |
| fermentaire {adj} | :: fermentation (attributive) |
| fermentation {f} | :: fermentation |
| fermenter {v} | :: to ferment |
| fermentescible {adj} | :: fermentable |
| ferme piscicole {f} | :: fish farm |
| fermer {v} | :: to close |
| fermer {v} | :: to shut |
| fermer à clé {vt} | :: to lock |
| fermer à clef {vt} | :: to lock |
| fermer les yeux {v} [idiomatic] | :: to pass away, to die |
| fermer les yeux {v} [idiomatic] | :: to turn a blind eye |
| fermer les yeux {v} [literally] | :: to shut one's eyes |
| fermer sa gueule {v} [vulgar, offensive] | :: to shut one's mouth; to shut up (refrain from speech) |
| fermeté {f} | :: firmness |
| ferme ta gueule {phrase} [vulgar, offensive] | :: shut up; shut the fuck up; shut your mouth! |
| fermette {f} | :: farmhouse |
| fermette {f} | :: small farm |
| fermeture {f} | :: closing |
| fermeture {f} | :: fastener |
| fermier {adj} | :: farmer (attributive) |
| fermier {m} | :: farmer |
| fermion {m} [physics] | :: fermion |
| fermionique {adj} [physics] | :: fermionic |
| fermière {f} | :: farmer's wife |
| fermière {f} | :: (female) farmer |
| fermium {m} | :: fermium |
| fermoir {m} | :: clasp (or similar small metal fastening) |
| Fernand {prop} | :: given name, cognate to Ferdinand |
| Fernande {prop} | :: given name, feminine form of Fernand |
| ferré {adj} | :: Strong, powerful |
| ferrage {m} | :: shoeing (of a horse) |
| ferraillage {m} | :: The network of rebars used within reinforced concrete |
| ferraille {f} [colloquial] | :: loose change, shrapnel |
| ferraille {f} | :: old iron, scrap |
| ferrailler {vt} | :: to cross swords with |
| ferrailler {vt} | :: to scrap or recycle |
| ferrailleur {m} | :: scrap dealer or merchant |
| ferrailleur {m} | :: swordsman |
| ferrane {m} [Morocco] | :: A public oven where locals can cheaply bake their own bread |
| Ferrare {prop} {m} | :: Ferrara (city and province in Italy) |
| ferrédoxine {f} [protein] | :: ferredoxin |
| fer à repasser {m} | :: iron (for smoothing clothes) |
| ferrer {v} | :: to clad in iron (transitive), to be clad in iron (intransitive) |
| ferrer {v} | :: to clad in some metal, not necessarily iron |
| ferrer {v} | :: to hook (a fish) |
| ferrer {v} | :: to shoe (a horse) |
| ferret {m} | :: (metal) tag; aglet, aiguillette |
| ferreux {adj} | :: ferrous (all senses) |
| ferricyanure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: ferricyanide |
| ferrier {m} [historical] | :: a blacksmith |
| ferrier {m} [historical] | :: a farrier |
| ferrifère {adj} | :: ferriferous |
| ferrimagnétique {adj} [physics] | :: ferrimagnetic |
| ferriprive {adj} [pathology] | :: Suffering from a deficiency of iron |
| ferrique {adj} [chemistry] | :: ferric |
| ferrière {f} | :: feminine noun of ferrier |
| ferro- {prefix} | :: ferro- |
| ferro- {prefix} | :: Relating to railways |
| ferrocène {m} [chemistry] | :: ferrocene |
| ferrocérium {m} | :: ferrocerium |
| ferrocyanure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: ferrocyanide |
| ferroélectrique {adj} [physics] | :: ferroelectric |
| ferromagnésien {adj} | :: ferromagnesian |
| ferromagnétique {adj} [physics] | :: ferromagnetic |
| ferromagnétisme {m} [physics] | :: ferromagnetism |
| ferron {m} | :: wrought iron |
| ferronnerie {f} | :: ironworks (iron factory) |
| ferronnerie {f} | :: ironwork (the art of the blacksmith) |
| ferronnier {m} | :: blacksmith (worker in wrought iron) |
| ferronnière {f} | :: feminine noun of ferronnier |
| ferrosilicium {m} | :: ferrosilicon |
| ferrotype {m} | :: ferrotype |
| ferroutage {m} | :: piggyback transportation (of a lorry on a train) |
| ferrouter {v} | :: To piggyback (transport a lorry on a train) |
| ferroviaire {adj} | :: Rail; pertaining to railroad transportation |
| ferrugineux {adj} | :: ferruginous |
| ferrure {f} | :: iron fitting (often ornamental) |
| ferry {m} | :: ferry |
| fer à souder {m} | :: soldering iron (tool) |
| fertile {adj} | :: fertile |
| fertilement {adv} | :: fertilely |
| fertilisant {adj} | :: fertilizing |
| fertilisation {f} | :: fertilization |
| fertiliser {v} | :: to fertilize |
| fertilité {f} | :: fertility |
| fervemment {adv} | :: fervently; with fervor |
| fervent {adj} | :: fervent |
| ferveur {f} | :: ardour, zeal, fervor |
| fessé {m} | :: Male spankee |
| fessée {f} | :: Female spankee |
| fessée {f} | :: Spanking |
| fesse {f} [anatomy] | :: buttock |
| Fessebouc {prop} [humorous, pejorative] | |
| fessecul {m} | :: saltbush Atriplex halimus |
| fesser {v} | :: to spank |
| fesser {v} | :: to whack (Quebec slang) |
| fessier {adj} [anatomy] | :: Specifically, of the buttocks' muscles |
| fessier {adj} | :: Pertaining or belonging to the buttocks |
| fessier {m} | :: One of several muscles in the buttocks |
| fessier {m} | :: The butt as a whole |
| fessu {adj} | :: having fat buttocks |
| festif {adj} | :: festive |
| festin {m} | :: banquet, feast (a large celebratory meal) |
| festiner {v} | :: to feast |
| festival {m} | :: festival |
| festivalier {adj} | :: festival (attributive) |
| festivalier {m} | :: festivalgoer |
| festivement {adv} | :: festively |
| festivité {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: festivity, merrymaking |
| feston {m} | :: festoon |
| festonner {v} | :: to festoon |
| festoyer {vt} | :: to feast, banquet |
| festoyeur {m} | :: reveler |
| festoyeuse {f} | :: feminine singular of festoyeur |
| feu {adj} | :: deceased |
| feu {m} | :: (cigarette) lighter |
| feu {m} | :: fire |
| feu {m} | :: traffic light |
| feu d'artifice {m} | :: firework |
| feudataire {adj} | :: feudatory |
| feudataire {mf} | :: feudatory, vassal |
| feu de camp {m} | :: campfire (fire at a campground) |
| feu de joie {m} | :: bonfire |
| feu follet {m} | :: will-o'-the-wisp |
| feu grégeois {m} | :: Greek fire |
| feuillage {m} | :: foliage |
| feuillaison {f} | :: foliation (annual formation of leaves) |
| feuillant {adj} | :: Feuillant |
| feuillant {m} | :: Feuillant |
| feuillard {m} | :: band (of iron) |
| feuillée {f} [in plural, military slang] | :: latrines, lats |
| feuillée {f} [obsolete] | :: foliage |
| feuille {f} [colloquial] | :: ear |
| feuille {f} | :: leaf (of a plant or tree) |
| feuille {f} | :: sheet (of paper, etc) |
| feuille d'acanthe {f} [arts and architecture] | :: An acanthus decorative pattern |
| feuille de rose {f} [euphemistic] | :: anilingus |
| feuille de route {f} | :: road map; action plan |
| feuille-morte {adj} | :: of the colour of dying leaves: russet, feuillemorte |
| feuilleté {adj} | :: laminated |
| feuilleté {adj} | :: layered |
| feuilleté {m} | :: A layered cake |
| feuillet {m} | :: layer (of wood) |
| feuillet {m} | :: omasum, manyplies (of ruminants) |
| feuillet {m} | :: page, leaf (of book etc.) |
| feuilletage {m} | :: flakiness (of pastry etc) |
| feuilleter {v} | :: to leaf through (to turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random) |
| feuilleton {m} | :: soap opera (TV) |
| feuilletonesque {adj} | :: serialized (especially as a soap opera) |
| feuillette {f} | :: half-barrel (of wine) |
| feuillu {adj} | :: leafy, leafed |
| feuillu {m} | :: hardwood tree |
| feuj {adj} [slang, sometimes, pejorative] | :: Jewish |
| feulement {m} | :: growl |
| feuler {v} [especially of a tiger or other big cats] | :: to growl |
| feurre {m} [obsolete] | :: hay, straw (especially as used to cushion chairs, cover rural housing etc.) |
| Feurs {prop} | :: A small town in the Loire department of Rhône-Alpes |
| feutré {adj} [figuratively] | :: muted, muffled |
| feutré {adj} | :: having a texture like felt; felt-like |
| feutre {m} | :: felt |
| feutre {m} | :: felt hat; trilby (UK), fedora (US) |
| feutre {m} | :: felt-tip (pen) |
| feutrer {vt} | :: to felt |
| feutrer {vt} | :: to muffle |
| feutrine {f} | :: lightweight felt |
| feu vert {m} | :: green light (green traffic light) |
| feu vert {m} [idiomatic] | :: green light, go-ahead |
| feux croisés {mp} [military] | :: crossfire |
| fez {m} | :: fez |
| FFF {initialism} [soccer] | :: Fédération Française de Football, the governing body of football (soccer) in France |
| führer {m} | :: The Führer, the title of single party and fascist state top leader Adolf Hitler as totalitarian ruler of Nazi Germany |
| fi {interj} [archaic] | :: faugh, fie |
| FIA {initialism} | :: FIA - initialism of Fédération internationale de l'automobile |
| fiabilisation {f} | :: reliability |
| fiabiliser {v} | :: To make more reliable |
| fiabilité {f} | :: reliability |
| fiable {adj} | :: reliable, dependable |
| fiablité {f} | :: reliability |
| fiançaille {f} [in the plural] | :: engagement (before a marriage) |
| fiançaille {f} [obsolete in the singular] | :: betrothal |
| fiançailles {fp} | :: engagement (before a marriage); betrothal |
| fiancé {adj} | :: engaged |
| fiancé {m} | :: fiancé |
| fiancer {v} | :: get engaged (to be married) |
| fiasco {m} | :: fiasco (bottle) |
| fiasco {m} | :: fiasco (situation) |
| fibré {adj} | :: fibrous |
| fibrage {m} | :: optical fibre installation |
| fibranne {f} | :: A rayon fabric |
| fibre {f} | :: fibre |
| fibreux {adj} | :: fibrous |
| fibrillaire {adj} | :: fibrillary |
| fibroblaste {m} | :: fibroblast |
| fibrociment {m} | :: fibre cement, fibrocement (containing asbestos etc.) |
| fibrome {m} [pathology] | :: fibroma |
| fibromyalgie {f} [pathology] | :: fibromyalgia |
| fibroprotéine {f} [protein] | :: fibrous protein |
| fibroscope {m} | :: fibrescope / fiberscope |
| fibroscopie {f} | :: fibroscopy / fiberoscopy |
| fibule {f} | :: fibula (brooch) |
| ficaire {m} | :: lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria) |
| ficelage {m} | :: tying (up) |
| ficeler {v} | :: to tie up |
| ficelle {f} | :: twine |
| fiché {adj} [heraldry] | :: fitché (said of a cross) |
| fichage {m} [by extension] | :: surveillance |
| fichage {m} [computing] | :: filing |
| fiche {f} | :: card (in a file) |
| fiche {f} | :: plug |
| ficher {vr} [s'en ficher, euphemistic] | :: to not give a damn |
| ficher {v} | :: to file, record, track (e.g. by police) |
| ficher {vt} | :: to plug in; to drive something in by its point, as with a nail or a stake |
| ficher le camp {v} [idiomatic, slang] | :: to get the hell out; to get out of here; to bugger off; to scarper |
| fichier {m} [computing] | :: File |
| fichier {m} | :: File (collection of papers) |
| fichtre {adv} [dated] | :: adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying |
| fichtre {interj} [dated] | :: gosh! |
| fichtrement {adv} | :: very, terribly, awfully, darned, damn |
| fichu {adj} [colloquial] | :: done for |
| fichu {adj} [colloquial] | :: lousy, rotten, hell of a |
| fichu {adj} [colloquial] | :: put together, rigged out, got up |
| fichu {m} [historical] | :: fichu |
| fichu {m} | :: scarf, headscarf |
| ficoïde {f} | :: fig marigold, ice plant (of family Aizoaceae or Ficoidaceae) |
| fictif {adj} | :: fictional |
| fiction {f} | :: fiction |
| fictionaliser {v} | :: to fictionalize |
| fictivement {adv} | :: fictitiously |
| FIDIC {prop} {f} | :: acronym of Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils |
| fidéicommis {m} [historical] | :: fideicommissum |
| fidéicommis {m} [legal] | :: trust, living trust; trusteeship |
| Fidji {prop} {m} | :: Fiji (Republic of the Fiji Islands) |
| fidjien {adj} | :: Fijian (of or pertaining to Fiji or its people or culture) |
| fidjien {m} | :: Fijian, the Fijian language |
| Fidjien {m} | :: a Fijian |
| Fidjienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Fidjien |
| fidèle {adj} | :: faithful |
| fidèle {adj} | :: loyal |
| fidèlement {adv} | :: faithfully |
| fidélisation {f} | :: gaining the loyalty of a customer or client |
| fidéliser {v} | :: to loyalize, to loyalise, to keep loyal |
| fidélité {f} | :: faithfulness, fidelity |
| fiduciaire {adj} | :: fiduciary |
| fiduciaire {mf} | :: trustee, fiduciary |
| fiduciairement {adv} | :: fiduciarily |
| fiducie {f} | :: escrow, trust |
| fief {m} | :: fief |
| fieffé {adj} | :: arrant, out-and-out, blatant |
| fiel {m} | :: bile |
| fielleusement {adv} | :: spitefully |
| fielleusement {adv} | :: venomously |
| fielleux {adj} | :: venomous, spiteful, scurrilous |
| fiente {f} | :: droppings |
| fier {adj} | :: proud |
| -fier {suffix} | :: alternative form of -ifier |
| fier {vr} | :: to trust (à), to rely on (à) |
| fier comme un paon {adj} [simile] | :: proud as a peacock |
| fierté {f} | :: pride (emotion), self-esteem |
| fieu {m} [Picardy, colloquial] | :: son (male child) |
| fif {m} [Quebec, slang, derogatory] | :: an effeminate male homosexual; poof; faggot |
| Fifi Brindacier {prop} {f} | :: Pippi Longstocking (fictional character invented by Astrid Lindgren) |
| fifille {f} | :: little girl |
| fifre {m} | :: fife |
| fig. {adj} | :: abbreviation of figuré; figurative |
| figé {adj} [by extension] | :: lifeless; motionless |
| figé {adj} | :: frozen |
| figaro {m} | :: barber |
| figeage {m} | :: freezing |
| figement {m} | :: freezing (action or result of freezing) |
| figer {v} [figuratively] | :: to scare, to frighten |
| figer {v} | :: to freeze |
| fignolage {m} | :: tweaking, fine tuning |
| fignoler {vt} | :: to tweak, put the finishing touches to |
| figue {f} | :: fig (fruit) |
| figuier {m} | :: fig tree |
| figuré {adj} | :: figurative |
| figurant {m} [cinema] | :: extra |
| figurant {m} [theater] | :: bit player |
| figuratif {adj} | :: figurative |
| figurativement {adv} | :: figuratively |
| figure {f} | :: face |
| figure {f} | :: figure |
| figure de proue {f} [literally and figuratively] | :: figurehead |
| figure de style {f} | :: figure of speech (word or phrase) |
| figurer {vr} | :: to imagine, picture |
| figurer {v} | :: to appear (in a list, etc.), to be included; to represent |
| figurine {f} | :: figurine |
| figurément {adv} | :: figuratively |
| filé {m} | :: fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production |
| filé {m} | :: simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework |
| fil {m} | :: edge (of blade, razor etc.) |
| fil {m} | :: grain (of wood etc.) |
| fil {m} | :: thread, wire |
| filage {m} | :: run-through (rehearsal) |
| filage {m} | :: spinning (of thread) |
| filaire {adj} | :: wired, corded (connected by wire/cord) |
| filamenteux {adj} | :: Filamentous; having filaments |
| filandreux {adj} [of prose] | :: rambling |
| filandreux {adj} | :: stringy (resembling strings) |
| filant {adj} | :: spinning (as a thread) |
| filasse {f} [by extension] | :: a yellowish-blond haired person; a towhead |
| filasse {f} [by metonymy] | :: its distinctive bleak color |
| filasse {f} | :: something of that color, especially blond hair |
| filasse {f} | :: tow, oakum, hards |
| filateur {m} | :: spinner (machine, person) |
| filatrice {f} | :: feminine singular of filateur |
| filature {f} | :: filature |
| filature {f} | :: spinning factory |
| filature {f} | :: watch, surveillance |
| fil de fer {f} [computing] | :: wireframe |
| fil de fer {f} | :: larva of the click beetle |
| fil de fer {f} | :: wire |
| fil de fer {f} | :: wirewalking |
| fil de fer barbelé {m} | :: barbed wire |
| fildefériste {mf} | :: alternative form of fil-de-fériste |
| fil-de-fériste {mf} | :: tightrope walker (high wire artist) |
| fil dentaire {m} | :: dental floss (floss used to clean the areas between the teeth) |
| file {f} | :: A line of objects placed one after the other |
| file {f} [Belgium] | :: traffic jam |
| file d'attente {f} | :: queue |
| filer {vi} [colloquial] | :: to leave, to get going to scram; slip through |
| filer {vi} | :: to spin a thread (of syrup, or syrup-like substances) |
| filer {vt} [colloquial] | :: to pass, to hand, to give |
| filer {vt} | :: to spin (a web) |
| filer {vt} | :: to thread through (a crowd) |
| filer à l'anglaise {v} [idiomatic] | :: to take French leave |
| filer par le bout {v} | :: to slip the anchor |
| fileté {adj} | :: threaded |
| filet {m} [anatomy] | :: frenum |
| filet {m} [architecture] | :: fillet, listel |
| filet {m} | :: fillet, filet (of meat) |
| filet {m} [fishing, sports] | :: net |
| filet {m} | :: trickle, drizzle (of liquid etc.), wisp (of smoke) |
| filet {m} [typography] | :: rule |
| filet {m} | :: (used for carrying groceries) net |
| filetage {m} | :: screw thread |
| filet à cheveux {m} | :: hairnet (net designed to keep hair up) |
| filetier {m} | :: spinner (maker of threads) |
| filet japonais {m} | :: mist net |
| filet mignon {m} | :: filet mignon |
| filet à papillons {m} | :: butterfly net |
| fileur {m} | :: spinner (person who spins thread) |
| fileuse {f} | :: spinner, spinster (female person who spins thread) |
| filial {adj} | :: Characteristic of or befitting the relationship between a son or daughter and their parents |
| filiale {f} | :: subsidiary |
| filialement {adv} | :: filially |
| filialisation {f} | :: subsidiarization |
| filialiser {v} | :: To spin off |
| filialiser {v} | :: To subsidiarize |
| filiation {f} | :: filiation |
| filiforme {adj} | :: filiform, threadlike |
| filigrane {m} | :: filigree |
| filigrane {m} | :: watermark (translucent design impressed on paper) |
| filigraner {v} | :: filigree (to decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire) |
| filin {m} [nautical] | :: rope, cord |
| filipino {m} | :: Filipino (language) |
| filière {f} | :: course of events |
| filière {f} | :: creance (in falconry) |
| filière {f} | :: die (in manufacturing) |
| filière {f} | :: industry |
| filière {f} | :: ring (of people, for example in drug dealing) |
| filière {f} | :: spinneret (of a spider) |
| fille {f} | :: daughter |
| fille {f} | :: girl |
| fille {f} [slang] | :: prostitute, wench |
| fille de comptoir {f} | :: A barmaid |
| fille de cuisine {f} | :: kitchen maid |
| fille de joie {f} [euphemistic] | :: lady of the night |
| fille de laiterie {f} | :: milkmaid |
| fille de pute {f} | :: feminine noun of fils de pute |
| fille de rue {f} [euphemistic, pejorative] | :: a prostitute |
| fille des rues {f} [euphemistic, pejorative] | :: a prostitute |
| fille de trottoir {f} [euphemistic, pejorative] | :: a prostitute |
| fille du port {f} [euphemistic, slang] | :: a prostitute who works in harbours, harbour girl |
| fille facile {f} [euphemistic, pejorative] | :: a prostitute |
| fille manquée {f} [often disparaging] | :: tomgirl; boy who behaves like a girl; effeminate man or boy |
| fille-mère {f} | :: single mother, unmarried mother |
| fille publique {f} | :: streetwalker |
| fille soumise {f} [euphemistic, pejorative] | :: a prostitute |
| fillette {f} | :: A little daughter |
| fillette {f} | :: A little girl |
| filleul {m} | :: godson |
| filleule {f} | :: goddaughter |
| fille unique {f} | :: Female only child |
| Fillon {prop} | :: surname |
| filloniste {adj} | :: Relating to, or characteristic of François Fillon |
| fillonniste {adj} | :: Relating to, or characteristic of François Fillon |
| film {m} | :: movie, film |
| film d'exploitation {m} | :: exploitation film |
| film d'horreur {m} | :: horror movie |
| filmer {v} | :: to film |
| filmique {adj} | :: filmic, cinematic |
| filmique {adj} | :: film / movie (attributive) |
| film muet {m} | :: silent film |
| film noir {m} | :: film noir |
| filmographie {f} | :: filmography |
| filon {m} [geology] | :: lode, seam, vein |
| filonien {adj} | :: fibrous |
| filopode {m} | :: filopodium |
| filou {m} [archaic] | :: thief, pickpocket |
| filou {m} | :: rascal, rogue |
| filou {m} | :: trickster |
| filouterie {f} | :: fraud |
| filouterie {f} | :: knavery |
| fils {m} | :: any direct descendant, male or female |
| fils {m} | :: any male descendant |
| fils {m} | :: darling, dear (term of affection for a male beloved) |
| fils {m} | :: Jr. (postnomial designator indicating a son with the same name as the father) |
| fils {m} | :: son |
| Fils {prop} [Christianity] | :: Son, person of the Holy Trinity |
| Fils de l'homme {prop} {m} [Christianity] | :: Son of Man |
| fils de putain {m} | :: alternative form of fils de pute |
| fils de pute {m} [vulgar, offensive] | :: objectionable person : son of a bitch, motherfucker, bastard |
| fils de pute {m} [vulgar, pejorative] | :: son of a prostitute : whoreson, son of a whore |
| fils unique {m} | :: Male only child |
| filtré {adj} | :: filtered |
| filtrage {m} | :: filtering |
| filtrant {adj} | :: filter (attributive) |
| filtrat {m} | :: filtrate |
| filtration {f} | :: filtration |
| filtre {m} | :: filter |
| filtrer {v} | :: to leak (secret information) |
| filtrer {vt} | :: to filter |
| filtreur {adj} | :: filter (attributive) |
| fin {adj} [Quebec] | :: kind, nice |
| fin {adj} | :: thin, fine |
| fin {f} | :: end, close, finish |
| fin {f} | :: end, objective, purpose |
| final {adj} | :: final (last) |
| final {adj} [linguistics, grammar] | :: expressing purpose |
| finale {f} | :: a final |
| finalement {adv} | :: finally; eventually; after all |
| finalement {adv} | :: finally; last; lastly |
| finalisation {f} | :: finalisation |
| finaliser {v} [administration] | :: To finalize |
| finalisme {m} | :: finalism |
| finaliste {mf} | :: finalist |
| finalité {f} [philosophy] | :: idea according to which things and forms are created and change according to an end, teleology |
| finalité {f} | :: purpose, end result |
| finance {f} | :: finance |
| financement {m} | :: funding, financing |
| financer {v} | :: to fund |
| financeur {adj} | :: financing |
| financeur {m} | :: financer |
| financeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of financeur |
| financiarisation {f} | :: financialisation |
| financier {adj} | :: financial (of, or relating to, the world of money) |
| financier {m} | :: banker |
| financier {m} | :: financier (person) |
| financier {m} | :: financier (type of cake) |
| financièrement {adv} | :: financially |
| finasser {vt} | :: to finesse |
| finasserie {f} | :: trick, dodge, ruse |
| finaud {adj} | :: wily, sly |
| fin comme du gros sel {adj} [simile] | :: Unsubtle, subtle as a sledgehammer |
| fin de semaine {f} [chiefly Canada] | :: the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) |
| fin de semaine {f} [chiefly Europe] | :: the end of the working week (Thursday and Friday) |
| fine {f} | :: a number of high grade French brandies (usually AOC certified) |
| fine {f} [typography] | :: thin space, non-breakable space |
| finement {adv} | :: finely; delicately |
| finesse {f} | :: fineness, delicacy; slenderness |
| finesse {f} | :: fineness (of hair, writing etc.) |
| finesse {f} | :: keenness, sharpness (of blade) |
| finesse {f} | :: perceptiveness; sensitivity, finesse |
| finesse {f} | :: thinness |
| fini {adj} | :: Completed or done |
| fini {adj} [pejorative] | :: Whose art has been perfected; accomplished |
| fini {adj} | :: Readily useable |
| fini {adj} [technical, philosophical] | :: Which has an end, limited, finite |
| fini {adj} | :: Which has been carefully done |
| fini {adj} | :: Which has been morally damaged and has lost his reputation; done for |
| fini {adj} | :: Which has come to an end |
| fini {m} | :: Aspect or texture of what has been completed |
| finiment {adv} | :: finitely |
| finir {v} | :: to finish, end, complete |
| finissage {m} | :: finishing, polish |
| finissant {adj} [literary] | :: Which is ending |
| finissant {m} [Quebec] | :: A student who completely or incompletely finishes a educational stage |
| finissante {f} | :: feminine noun of finissant |
| finissement {m} [rare] | :: end |
| finisseur {m} | :: finisher |
| finisseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of finisseur |
| Finistère {prop} {m} | :: Finistère |
| finistérien {adj} | :: of, from, or relating to, Finistère, the westernmost department in Brittany |
| Finistérien {m} | :: someone of or from Finistère |
| Finistérienne {f} | :: feminine singular of Finistérien |
| finition {f} | :: finishing (act of finishing) |
| finitude {f} | :: finitude, impermanence, transience |
| finlandais {adj} | :: Finnish (from, or pertaining to Finland) |
| Finlandais {m} | :: Finn (person from Finland) |
| Finlandaise {f} | :: (female) Finn |
| Finlande {prop} {f} | :: Finland |
| finlandisation {f} | :: Finlandization (the influence of a large state on a smaller one) |
| finnois {adj} | :: Finnish (related to the Finnish language) |
| finnois {m} | :: Finnish, the Finnish language |
| Finnois {m} | :: Finn (person from Finland) |
| Finnoise {f} | :: feminine noun of Finnois |
| finno-ougrien {n} | :: Finno-Ugric |
| finnophone {adj} | :: Finnophone |
| finnophone {mf} | :: a Finnophone |
| fiole {f} | :: vial, phial |
| fion {m} [slang] | :: arse, arsehole |
| Fiona {prop} | :: given name of Goidelic origin, popular in the 1990s and the 2000s |
| fioriture {f} | :: (especially in plural) flourish, frill, fioriture |
| fioul {m} | :: heating oil |
| fièrement {adv} | :: proudly |
| firme {f} | :: firm (company) |
| fiérot {adj} | :: cocky (pleased with oneself) |
| FIS {prop} [ski] | :: abbreviation of Fédération internationale de ski; the International Ski Federation |
| fisc {f} [economics] | :: fiscal administration |
| fiscal {adj} | :: fiscal, financial |
| fiscalement {adv} [finance] | :: fiscally |
| fiscaliser {vt} | :: to tax (make taxable) |
| fiscalité {f} | :: the practice of managing taxes and taxation |
| Fischer {prop} | :: surname |
| Fiset {prop} | :: surname |
| fissa {adj} [slang] | :: snappy (rapid and without delay) |
| fissile {adj} | :: fissile, fissible |
| fission {f} [chiefly physics] | :: fission |
| fissionner {v} [physics] | :: To fission |
| fission nucléaire {f} | :: nuclear fission |
| fissure {f} | :: fissure |
| fissurer {v} | :: to crack |
| fissurer {v} | :: to fissure |
| fister {v} | :: to fist-fuck |
| fiston {m} | :: boy, son, lad, young man (as a form of address) |
| fistule {f} [medicine] | :: fistula |
| fitness {m} | :: (physical) fitness |
| fièvre {f} | :: fever |
| fièvre aphteuse {f} | :: foot-and-mouth disease |
| fièvre de cheval {f} | :: a strong, raging fever |
| fièvre de lait {f} | :: milk fever |
| fièvre jaune {f} | :: yellow fever |
| fiévreusement {adv} [figuratively] | :: feverishly; zealously |
| fiévreux {adj} | :: causing fever |
| fiévreux {adj} | :: feverish, running a high body-temperature |
| fiévreux {adj} [figuratively] | :: hot-tempered, agitated |
| fiévreux {m} | :: A fever-sufferer, notably a feverish patient |
| fiévreux {m} [figuratively] | :: A hothead, feverishly agitated person |
| fix {m} | :: fix |
| fixage {m} | :: fixing |
| fixateur {m} | :: fixer |
| fixatif {adj} | :: fixative |
| fixation {f} | :: fixation |
| fixatrice {f} | :: feminine noun of fixateur |
| fixe {adj} | :: fixed |
| fixe {m} | :: fix |
| fixement {adv} | :: fixedly |
| fixer {vr} | :: to settle (in a place) |
| fixer {v} | :: to fix, arrange, set (a date, price etc.) |
| fixer {v} | :: to fix, fasten |
| fixer {vt} | :: to stare at |
| fixisme {m} | :: fixism |
| fixiste {adj} [biology] | :: fixist |
| fixiste {mf} [biology] | :: fixist |
| fixité {f} | :: fixedness, fixity, immovability |
| fjeld {m} | :: fjeld |
| fjord {m} | :: fjord |
| fêlé {adj} | :: cracked |
| Fl. {f} [music] | :: Fl. (flute) |
| flaccidité {f} | :: flaccidity, limpness |
| flacon {m} | :: vial, flacon |
| flafla {m} [chiefly in the plural] | :: frills |
| flafla {m} | :: ostentation, display |
| flagada {adj} | :: knackered |
| flagellateur {m} | :: flagellator |
| flagellatrice {f} | :: feminine singular of flagellateur |
| flageller {vr} | :: To whip oneself as mortification |
| flageller {vt} | :: To abuse verbally, give a tongue-lashing |
| flageller {vt} | :: To beat severely, with a ' scourge (flagelle) or whip |
| flageolant {adj} | :: trembling |
| flageolant {adj} | :: wobbly |
| flageoler {vi} | :: to stagger |
| flageolet {m} | :: A type of kidney bean, common in France |
| flageolet {m} [musical instruments] | :: flageolet (type of small flute) |
| flagorner {vt} [literary] | :: to flatter coarsely |
| flagornerie {f} | :: coarse flattery |
| flagorneur {m} | :: sycophant |
| flagorneuse {f} | :: sycophant (female) |
| flagramment {adv} | :: blatantly |
| flagrance {f} | :: flagrancy |
| flagrant {adj} | :: flagrant |
| flair {m} [by extension] | :: intuition, sixth sense |
| flair {m} | :: sense of smell |
| flairer {vt} [hunting] | :: to scent |
| flairer {vt} | :: to sense |
| flairer {vt} | :: to smell, sniff (at) |
| flamand {adj} | :: Flemish |
| flamand {prop} {m} | :: Flemish (dialect) |
| Flamand {m} | :: Fleming, person from Flanders, Belgium |
| Flamande {f} | :: feminine noun of Flamand |
| flamant {m} | :: flamingo |
| flambage {m} | :: buckling |
| flambant {adj} | :: flaming (on fire) |
| flambant neuf {adj} | :: brand-new |
| flambard {adj} | :: funloving |
| flambée {f} [figuratively] | :: flare-up, explosion |
| flambée {f} | :: fire |
| flambe {f} | :: A kind of iris flower. |
| flambe {f} [archaic or dialectal] | :: A high, clear flame. |
| flambe {f} [argot] | :: game |
| flambe {f} | :: A sword with a curved blade. |
| flambeau {m} | :: candle |
| flambeau {m} | :: candlestick |
| flambeau {m} [metonymy] | :: light, flame as symbolic spirit of something |
| flambeau {m} | :: torch |
| flamber {vi} | :: to burn, blaze |
| flamber {vt} [figuratively] | :: to squander money, especially on gambling |
| flamber {v} | :: to buckle |
| flamber {vt} | :: to flame, flambé |
| flambeur {m} | :: Big spender |
| flambeur {m} | :: (big-time) gambler |
| flambeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of flambeur |
| flamboiement {m} | :: blaze, flare (of heat or light) |
| flamboyamment {adv} | :: flamboyantly |
| flamboyamment {adv} | :: flamingly |
| flamboyant {adj} | :: flamboyant |
| flamboyant {adj} | :: flaming |
| flamboyer {vi} | :: to blaze, flame |
| flamenco {m} | :: flamenco (music, dance) |
| flamer {v} [Internet] | :: to flame (post disruptive messages) |
| flamiche {f} | :: leek pie (or any of several other pastries) |
| flamine {m} | :: flamen |
| flamingant {adj} | :: Flemish-speaking |
| flamingant {m} | :: Flemish nationalist |
| flamingantisme {m} | :: Flemish nationalism (in Belgium) |
| flaminique {f} | :: female flamen |
| flaminique {f} | :: wife of a flamen |
| flammé {adj} | :: flamed |
| flammèche {f} | :: spark (detached from burning material) |
| flamme {f} [figurative] | :: talent, brilliance |
| flamme {f} | :: flame |
| flamme {f} [nautical] | :: streamer (long, narrow flag) |
| flammer {v} [regional] | :: To flame |
| flammer {v} | :: To bleed (an animal) |
| flammerole {f} | :: will-o'-the-wisp |
| flamme rouge {f} [cycling] | :: a red flag indicating to riders that the finish line is coming up in one kilometre |
| flammette {f} [nautical] | :: A small streamer (long, narrow flag) |
| flan {m} | :: baked custard tart |
| flan {m} | :: coin die |
| flanc {m} [military] | :: flank |
| flanc {m} | :: side (of person); side, flank (of animal) |
| flanc {m} | :: side, slope (of mountain etc.) |
| flancher {v} | :: to drop out; pussy out; wuss out; chicken out; back down |
| flanchet {m} | :: flank (meat from the flank) |
| Flandre {prop} {f} | :: Flanders (subnational state in the north of federal Belgium) |
| flandrien {n} | :: Flandrian |
| Flandrien {m} | :: Flandrian |
| Flandrienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Flandrien |
| flanelle {f} | :: flannel (soft cloth material) |
| flanker {m} [rugby] | :: flanker |
| flanquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to fling, chuck |
| flanquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to give |
| flanquer {v} | :: to flank, adjoin |
| flanquer {v} | :: to stay by (someone's) side, to be someone's right hand man |
| flanquer une tripotée {vp} | :: to get into a fight, have a bust-up |
| flanquer une tripotée {v} | :: to beat up |
| flaperon {m} | :: flaperon |
| flapi {adj} [colloquial] | :: dog-tired, knackered |
| flaque {f} | :: puddle |
| flaquer {v} [archaic] | :: to splash |
| flash {m} | :: flash (burst of light) |
| flash {m} [juggling] | :: flash |
| flash {m} | :: newsflash |
| flash {m} [photography] | :: flash |
| flash-ball {m} | :: flash-ball |
| flasher {v} | :: to flash (of a camera, to use flash photography) |
| flasher {v} | :: to flash (of a light, to have intermittent periods on and off) |
| flasher {v} | :: to flash (of a vehicle, to be caught on camera speeding) |
| flasque {adj} | :: flabby, not firm |
| flasque {f} | :: flask |
| flasquement {adv} | :: flabbily |
| flatter {v} | :: to flatter |
| flatterie {f} | :: flattery |
| flatteur {adj} | :: flattering |
| flatteur {m} | :: flatterer (one who flatters) |
| flatteusement {adv} | :: flatteringly |
| flatulence {f} | :: flatulence |
| flatuosité {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: flatulence, flatus, wind |
| fléau {m} | :: A flail, either tool or weapon |
| fléau {m} | :: A scourge; a curse, a calamity or a plague |
| fléau {m} [mechanics] | :: The beam of a mechanical balance |
| Flaubert {prop} | :: surname |
| flavien {adj} | :: Flavian |
| flavine {f} [organic chemistry] | :: flavin |
| flavonoïde {m} [organic chemistry] | :: flavonoid |
| fléchage {m} | :: signposting, waymarking (arrows as signs) |
| flèche {f} [archery, symbol] | :: arrow (projectile or symbol) |
| flèche {f} [fencing] | :: fleche |
| flèche {f} | :: jib |
| flèche {f} | :: pointer, needle |
| flèche {f} | :: spire |
| Flèche {prop} {f} [astronomy] | :: Sagitta, a constellation |
| flécher {vt} | :: to mark with arrows |
| fléchette {f} | :: dart |
| fléchettes {f} [sports] | :: darts |
| fléchir {vi} | :: to bend, to bend over |
| fléchir {vt} [figuratively] | :: to provoke pity |
| fléchir {vt} | :: to bend, to fold |
| fléchissement {m} | :: bending, sagging |
| fléchissement {m} | :: fall-off |
| fléchissement {m} | :: weakening |
| FLE {initialism} | :: Français langue étrangère - the learning or teaching of the French language as a foreign language |
| flegmatique {adj} | :: phlegmatic, stolid |
| flegmatiquement {adv} | :: phlegmatically |
| flegme {m} | :: composure |
| flegme {m} [medicine, historical] | :: phlegm |
| fleischnacka {f} | :: alternative form of fleischschnacka |
| fleischschnacka {f} | :: An Alsatian meat-stuffed noodle dish, typically made with minced beef |
| flemmard {adj} | :: shiftless, bone-idle |
| flemmard {m} | :: slacker, idler |
| flemmarder {v} [colloquial] | :: to laze about, to laze around |
| flemmardise {f} | :: laziness |
| flemme {f} [colloquial] | :: laziness |
| fêler {vp} | :: to crack |
| fêler {vt} | :: to crack |
| flet {m} | :: flounder (fish) |
| fleur {f} [archaic, chemistry] | :: Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation |
| fleur {f} [botany] | :: Flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants") |
| fleur {f} [by metaphor] | :: The virginity of a woman |
| fleur {f} [by metonymy] | :: Flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself |
| fleur {f} [figuratively] | :: A kind favor given by one person to another |
| fleur {f} [figuratively] | :: The best of something |
| fleur de lis {f} | :: alternative form of fleur de lys |
| fleurdeliser {v} | :: alternative form of fleurdelyser |
| fleur de lys {f} | :: fleur-de-lys |
| fleurdelysé {adj} | :: fleur-de-lysed, decorated with fleurs-de-lys |
| fleurdelysé {m} | :: The flag of Quebec |
| fleurdelyser {v} | :: To decorate with fleurs-de-lys |
| fleurer {v} | :: to give off (an odor) |
| fleurer {v} | :: to smell, catch a waft of |
| fleurer {v} | :: to sprinkle |
| fleurer {v} | :: to waft |
| fleuret {m} [fencing] | :: foil (weapon) |
| fleurette {f} | :: small flower |
| fleurettiste {m} | :: foil fencer |
| fleuri {adj} | :: flowery |
| fleurie {m} | :: A red wine from the Rhône department |
| fleurir {v} | :: to bloom |
| fleurir {v} | :: to flourish |
| fleurir {v} | :: to flower; to produce flowers |
| fleurissement {m} | :: flowering, blooming |
| fleuriste {mf} | :: florist |
| fleuron {m} [architecture] | :: fleuron, finial |
| fleuron {m} [botany] | :: floret |
| fleuron {m} | :: (crown) jewel |
| fleuron {m} [figuratively] | :: jewel, emblem |
| fleuronné {adj} [of a manuscript, etc.] | :: floreted (decorated with flowers) |
| fleuve {m} | :: A river (one that flows into an ocean or sea. A river that flows into another river is called a rivière) |
| Flevoland {prop} {m} | :: Flevoland |
| flexibilisation {f} | :: flexibilization |
| flexibiliser {vi} | :: to become supple |
| flexibiliser {vt} | :: to make supple |
| flexibilité {f} | :: flexibility; flexibleness |
| flexible {adj} | :: flexible |
| flexiblement {adv} | :: flexibly |
| flexion {f} [grammar] | :: inflection |
| flexionnel {adj} [linguistics] | :: inflected (allowing inflection) |
| flexionnel {adj} [linguistics] | :: inflectional |
| flexueusement {adv} | :: flexuously, sinuously |
| flexueux {adj} | :: flexuous, sinuous |
| félibre {m} | :: félibre |
| flibuste {f} | :: buccaneering, freebooting |
| flibuste {f} | :: buccaneers, freebooters (collectively) |
| flibuster {v} | :: to buccaneer |
| flibuster {v} | :: to steal; to filch |
| flibustier {m} | :: A filibuster, a pirate |
| flic {m} [slang] | :: copper, pig, rozzer; (police officer) |
| flicage {m} | :: policing |
| flicage {m} | :: surveillance |
| flicaille {f} [collectively, derogatory, slang] | :: cops; pigs; the fuzz (the police) |
| félicité {f} | :: bliss |
| félicité {f} | :: felicity |
| félicité {f} | :: happiness |
| Félicité {prop} {f} | :: given name, equivalent to the English Felicity |
| félicitation {f} | :: congratulation |
| félicitations {interj} | :: felicitations, congratulations, well done |
| féliciter {v} | :: to congratulate |
| félidé {m} [usually, in the plural] | :: A felid: a member of the Felidae sub-family |
| félin {adj} | :: catlike |
| félin {adj} | :: feline |
| félin {m} | :: A cat, or a member of the cat family (family Felidae) |
| flingot {m} [dated] | :: gun |
| flingue {m} [colloquial] | :: shooter, pistol, gat (gun) |
| flinguer {v} [colloquial] | :: to gun, to gun down |
| flip {m} | :: a type of alcoholic punch from Normandy, composed of cider and calvados |
| flip {m} [gymnastics] | :: backflip |
| flip-flap {m} [gymnastics] | :: flip (frontflip or backflip) |
| flippant {adj} [Europe, colloquial] | :: Surprising |
| flippant {adj} [Europe, colloquial] | :: Worrying; scary |
| flipper {m} | :: pinball |
| flipper {v} | :: to freak out |
| fliquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to police |
| fliquesse {f} [colloquial] | :: policewoman |
| fliquette {f} [colloquial] | :: female police officer |
| flirt {m} | :: An episode of (or the act of) flirting |
| flirter {vi} | :: to flirt |
| flirteur {adj} | :: flirtatious, flirty |
| flirteur {m} | :: flirt |
| flirteuse {f} | :: feminine noun of flirteur |
| Félix {prop} | :: given name |
| FLN {initialism} | :: FLN (political party) |
| flâner {v} | :: to loiter, mill about |
| flâner {v} | :: to wander around |
| flânerie {f} | :: idling about, dawdling about, loafing about |
| flânerie {f} | :: stroll |
| flâneur {m} | :: loafer, idler, dawdler, loiterer |
| flâneuse {f} | :: feminine noun of flâneur |
| flânocher {vi} [colloquial] | :: to loiter |
| flocon {m} | :: a flake of cereal, as of cornflakes |
| flocon {m} | :: a flock (as of wool) |
| flocon {m} | :: a snowflake, a small mass of falling snow |
| flocon d'avoine {m} | :: flake of oat; oatmeal |
| floconneux {adj} | :: flaky |
| floconneux {adj} | :: fleecy, fluffy |
| floculation {f} [chemistry] | :: flocculation |
| floculer {v} | :: to flocculate |
| félon {adj} | :: treacherous, perfidious |
| félon {m} | :: traitor |
| flonflon {m} [colloquial, especially in plural] | :: blare |
| félonie {f} | :: treachery, treason |
| flopée {f} [colloquial] | :: ton, shedload (large amount) |
| floppée {f} | :: alternative form of flopée |
| Flora {prop} | :: given name, a latinate variant of Flore |
| floraison {f} | :: an instance of flowering |
| floraison {f} | :: flowering, florescence |
| floral {adj} | :: floral |
| floréal {m} [historical] | :: Floréal (the eighth month of French Republican Calendar) |
| floralie {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: flower show |
| flore {f} [countable] | :: flora (a book describing the plants of a country etc.) |
| flore {f} [uncountable] | :: flora (plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.) |
| flore {f} [uncountable] | :: flora (the microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body) |
| Flore {prop} | :: given name, cognate to English Flora |
| Flore {prop} [Roman mythology] | :: Flora |
| flore intestinale {f} | :: gut flora (the microorganisms that inhabit intestine) |
| Florence {prop} {f} | :: Florence (city) |
| Florence {prop} {f} | :: Florence (province) |
| Florence {prop} {f} | :: given name, feminine form of the saint's name Florent |
| Florent {prop} | :: given name |
| florentin {adj} | :: Florentine; of or pertaining to Florence |
| florentin {m} [cooking] | :: biscuit made with honey and almonds; Florentine |
| Florentin {m} | :: Florentine; person from Florence |
| Florentin {prop} {m} | :: given name, cognate to Florentin |
| Florentine {f} | :: feminine noun of Florentin |
| Florian {prop} | :: given name, equivalent to German Florian |
| floribond {adj} | :: producing many flowers |
| floriculteur {m} | :: flower grower |
| floricultrice {f} | :: feminine noun of floriculteur |
| floriculture {f} | :: floriculture |
| Floride {prop} | :: Florida |
| florilège {m} | :: anthology |
| florir {v} | :: to flourish, to be prosperous |
| florissant {adj} | :: flourishing |
| floristique {adj} | :: floral (pertaining to the flora of a region), floristic |
| floristiquement {adv} | :: floristically |
| florès {adj} | :: only used in faire florès |
| flot {m} | :: incoming tide (of the sea); floodtide |
| flot {m} [in the plural, literary] | :: waves |
| flot {m} | :: stream, flood (large amount) |
| flottabilité {f} | :: buoyancy |
| flottage {m} | :: floating (especially as a means of transporting logs) |
| flottaison {f} | :: floating, flotation (in water) |
| flottant {adj} | :: floating |
| flottation {f} | :: floating (all senses) |
| flottation {f} | :: flotation (industrial process) |
| flotte {f} [colloquial] | :: rain |
| flotte {f} [colloquial] | :: water |
| flotte {f} | :: fleet |
| flottement {m} | :: floating |
| flottement {m} | :: flutter, fluctuation |
| flottement {m} | :: hesitation |
| flotter {v} [colloquial] | :: to mill about |
| flotter {vi} | :: To float |
| flotter {v} | :: to flutter, to wave |
| flotteur {m} | :: float (any of many floating devices) |
| flottille {f} | :: flotilla |
| flou {adj} | :: fuzzy; blurred, blurry; unclear |
| flouer {vt} | :: to swindle, con |
| flous {m} [Morocco] | :: money |
| flouse {m} [slang] | :: dosh, dough, bread |
| flouze {m} [slang] | :: dough (money) |
| flérovium {m} | :: flerovium |
| flûté {adj} | :: reedy (of a voice) |
| flétan {m} | :: halibut (fish of genus Hippoglossus) |
| flûte {f} [musical instruments] | :: flute (musical instrument) |
| flûte {interj} | :: blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection) |
| flûte à bec {f} | :: recorder (musical instrument) |
| flûte traversière {f} [musical instruments] | :: transverse flute |
| flûtiste {mf} | :: flutist, flautist |
| flétri {adj} | :: withered, wizened |
| flétrir {vr} | :: to wither, wilt, shrivel |
| flétrir {vt} [obsolete] | :: to blacken, besmirch (someone's reputation etc.) |
| flétrir {vt} [obsolete] | :: to brand (as punishment) |
| flétrir {vt} [obsolete] | :: to condemn |
| flétrir {vt} | :: to wither |
| flétrissant {adj} | :: ignominious |
| flétrissant {adj} | :: withering |
| flétrissement {m} | :: withering, wilting, fading |
| flétrissure {f} | :: making something unfresh |
| flétrissure {f} | :: stigmatization |
| fluage {m} [metallurgy] | :: creep (progressive deformation) |
| fluctuant {adj} | :: fluctuant |
| fluctuation {f} | :: fluctuation |
| fluctuer {v} | :: to fluctuate (to vary irregularly; to swing) |
| fluer {v} [medicine] | :: to flow |
| fluer {v} [science] | :: to creep |
| fluet {adj} [of a sound, voice etc.] | :: weak, thin |
| fluet {adj} | :: slender, slim, skinny |
| fluide {m} | :: fluid |
| fluidement {adv} | :: fluidly |
| fluidification {f} | :: fluidification |
| fluidifier {v} | :: to fluidify |
| fluidisé {adj} | :: fluidized |
| fluidité {f} | :: fluidity |
| fluocompact {mf} | :: energy-saving light bulb |
| fluocompacte {adj} | :: compact fluorescent (of lamps) |
| fluoré {adj} | :: fluorinated, fluoridated |
| fluor {m} | :: fluorine (chemical element) |
| fluoranthène {m} [organic compound] | :: fluoranthene |
| fluoration {f} | :: fluoridation |
| fluorescence {f} [physics] | :: fluorescence |
| fluorescentement {adv} | :: fluorescently |
| fluorescéine {f} [organic compound] | :: fluorescein |
| fluorhydrique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: hydrofluoric |
| fluorène {m} [organic compound] | :: fluorene |
| fluorénone {m} [organic compound] | :: fluorenone |
| fluorohydrure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: fluorohydride |
| fluoropolymère {m} [organic chemistry] | :: fluoropolymer |
| fluorose {f} [pathology] | :: fluorosis |
| fluorouracile {f} | :: fluorouracil |
| fluorure {f} [chemistry] | :: fluoride |
| fluoxétine {m} [medicine] | :: fluoxetine |
| fêlure {f} | :: crack |
| flush {m} [anglicism] | :: flush (reddening of the face) |
| flush {m} [anglicism, IT] | :: emptying of the cache |
| flush {m} [poker] | :: flush |
| flusher {v} [Canada, anglicism] | :: to flush (a toilet) |
| flute {f} | :: alternative spelling of flûte |
| flutiste {mf} | :: alternative form of flûtiste |
| fluvial {adj} | :: fluvial |
| flux {m} | :: flow (the flow of the tide) |
| fluxage {m} | :: flux, flow |
| flux de travaux {m} [computing] | :: workflow (a process and/or procedure in which tasks are completed) |
| fluxion de poitrine {f} [obsolete] | :: pneumonia |
| flyé {adj} [Quebec, of a person] | :: eccentric |
| flyer {m} | :: flyer (leaflet) |
| FMI {prop} | :: IMF (International Monetary Fund) |
| féminicide {f} | :: femicide |
| féminilité {f} [archaic] | :: feminility |
| féminin {adj} | :: female |
| féminin {adj} | :: feminine |
| féminin {m} [linguistics] | :: feminine |
| fœminin {adj} [hypercorrect] | :: obsolete form of féminin |
| fémininement {adv} | :: femininely |
| féminisation {f} | :: feminisation |
| féminiser {v} | :: to feminize (make (more) feminine) |
| féminisme {m} | :: feminism (all meanings) |
| féministe {adj} | :: feminist |
| féministe {mf} | :: feminist |
| féminité {f} | :: femininity |
| féminitude {f} | :: womynhood (feminist definition of feminity) |
| fémoral {adj} | :: femoral (of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh) |
| fémur {m} | :: femur |
| FN {prop} | :: Fabrique Nationale; a Belgian firearms manufacturer |
| FN {prop} | :: Front National; a political party from either France or Belgium |
| Fnac {prop} {f} | :: Fnac, a large French retail chain selling books, music and consumer electronics |
| FN FAL {m} | :: alternative form of FN-FAL |
| FN-FAL {m} | :: FN-FAL; the NATO standard assault rifle |
| FNSEA {prop} | :: Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles - National Federation of Farmer's Unions |
| foc {m} [nautical] | :: jib (sail) |
| focal {adj} | :: focal |
| focalisation {f} | :: focalization |
| focalisation {f} | :: focusing |
| focaliser {v} | :: to focus; to focalize |
| focusser {v} [Quebec] | :: to focus |
| féodal {adj} | :: feudal |
| féodalisme {m} [history, economics, politics] | :: feudalism |
| féodalité {f} | :: feudalism, feudality |
| foehn {m} [meteorology] | :: foehn |
| foehn {m} [Switzerland, Alsace] | :: hair-dryer |
| foehner {v} [Switzerland] | :: To dry ones hair with a hairdryer |
| foi {f} | :: faith |
| foi {f} [heraldry] | :: A depiction of a handshake |
| foie {m} | :: liver (anatomy, food) |
| foie gras {m} | :: foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks) |
| foin {m} | :: hay |
| foirache {f} [regional] | :: annual mercury (Mercurialis annua) |
| foirade {f} | :: screwup |
| foirail {m} | :: fairground |
| foirante {f} [regional] | :: annual mercury (Mercurialis annua) |
| foiraude {f} [regional] | :: annual mercury (Mercurialis annua) |
| foire {f} | :: a fair, an exposition |
| foire {f} | :: a marketplace selling artisan goods |
| foire {f} [figuratively, slang] | :: fuckup, mess |
| foire {f} [vulgar] | :: diarrhoea |
| foire aux questions {f} | :: frequently asked questions (online document) |
| foirer {vit} [colloquial] | :: to screw up, mess up |
| foireux {adj} [slang] | :: crappy |
| foireux {adj} [slang] | :: ineffective, half-baked |
| foirode {f} | :: synonym of foiraude |
| foirole {f} | :: synonym of foiraude |
| foirolle {f} | :: synonym of foiraude |
| fois {f} [arithmetic] | :: times, multiplied by |
| fois {f} | :: time, an instance of something happening; a repetition |
| foison {f} [dated] | :: abundance, great deal, load |
| foisonnant {adj} | :: abounding (in); abundant |
| foisonnement {m} | :: abundance, proliferation |
| foisonner {vi} | :: to abound, to be plentiful, to teem (with) |
| foisonner {vi} | :: to breed, multiply (said of various types of animals) |
| foldingue {adj} [colloquial] | :: nutty, crazy |
| foliaire {adj} | :: foliar |
| foliaire {adj} | :: foliate |
| folichon {adj} [colloquial] | :: slight, lightweight; mischievous |
| folie {f} [architecture] | :: folly |
| folie {f} | :: madness, folly, insanity; silliness, craziness |
| folie du pourquoi {f} [psychology] | :: a medical condition in which a patient has a psychopathological condition to compulsively ask questions |
| foliole {f} [botany] | :: leaflet (component of a compound leaf) |
| folique {adj} | :: folic |
| folklore {m} | :: folklore |
| folklorique {adj} | :: folk (related to folklore) |
| folle {f} | :: madwoman |
| folle {f} [slang] | :: queen [male homosexual] |
| folle de la gâchette {f} | :: feminine noun of fou de la gâchette |
| follement {adv} [usually figuratively] | :: madly; insanely |
| follerie {f} [Quebec] | :: silliness, craziness, ridiculousness |
| follet {adj} | :: manic, irregular |
| follet {adj} | :: scatterbrained |
| follet {m} [archaic] | :: sprite, goblin |
| follicule {m} [anatomy] | :: follicle |
| follower {m} [Internet] | :: follower (on Twitter and similar sites) |
| follower {v} [Internet] | :: To follow (on Twitter and similar sites) |
| folâtre {adj} | :: playful, frolicsome, frisky |
| folâtrement {adv} | :: playfully, friskily |
| folâtrer {vi} | :: to frolic, gambol |
| fomentateur {m} | :: agitator |
| fomenter {v} | :: to foment |
| fon {m} | :: Fon (language) |
| foncé {adj} [of a colour] | :: dark (having a dark shade) |
| fonceder {vr} | :: to get high, get pissed |
| fonceder {vt} [of drugs] | :: to fuck up, make high, screw up (intoxicate) |
| fonceder {v} | :: to rip, rip apart, tear apart |
| fonceder {v} | :: to smash in, smash up, break, break open (destroy violently) |
| fonceder {v} [vulgar] | :: to fuck |
| foncer {vi} [colloquial] | :: to get a move on, go for it |
| foncer {vi} | :: to tear along (of person, vehicle etc.) |
| foncer {vti} | :: to darken |
| fonceur {m} | :: go-getter |
| fonceuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fonceur |
| foncier {adj} | :: fundamental, basic |
| foncier {adj} | :: (of) land, property |
| foncièrement {adv} | :: fundamentally |
| foncteur {m} | :: functor |
| foncteur {m} [object-oriented programming] | :: functor |
| fonction {f} | :: A function (what something does or is used for) |
| fonction {f} [mathematics] | :: An algebraic function |
| fonction {f} | :: role (function or position of something or someone) |
| fonction exponentielle {f} [mathematics] | :: exponential function |
| fonction générique {f} [object-oriented] | :: generic function |
| fonction impaire {f} [mathematics] | :: odd function |
| fonctionnaire {mf} | :: civil servant, official |
| fonctionnaliser {v} | :: To functionalize |
| fonctionnalisme {m} | :: functionalism |
| fonctionnaliste {adj} | :: functionalist |
| fonctionnaliste {mf} | :: functionalist |
| fonctionnalité {f} | :: functionality |
| fonctionnariat {m} | :: officialdom (the status of a civil servant or similar official) |
| fonctionnarisation {f} | :: establishment as a civil servant |
| fonctionnariser {vt} | :: to establish as a civil servant |
| fonctionnel {adj} | :: functional (able to be used) |
| fonctionnel {adj} | :: functional (related to functions) |
| fonctionnel {adj} | :: Of or relating to bodily functions |
| fonctionnellement {adv} | :: functionally |
| fonctionnement {m} | :: functioning |
| fonctionnement {m} | :: operation |
| fonctionnement {m} | :: working |
| fonctionner {v} | :: to function, to work |
| fonction paire {f} [mathematics] | :: even function |
| fonction virtuelle {f} [object-oriented] | :: virtual function |
| fond {m} | :: back |
| fond {m} | :: background |
| fond {m} | :: bottom |
| fond {m} [cooking] | :: base |
| fond {m} [figuratively] | :: basics, essence |
| fond {m} | :: foundation |
| fond {m} | :: fund; funding |
| fond {m} [music] | :: foundation stop on a pipe organ |
| fondamental {adj} | :: fundamental |
| fondamental {m} | :: fundamental (that which is fundamental) |
| fondamentalement {adv} | :: fundamentally |
| fondamentalisme {m} [religion, philosophy] | :: fundamentalism |
| fondamentaliste {adj} | :: fundamentalist |
| fondamentaliste {mf} | :: fundamentalist |
| fondant {adj} | :: melting |
| fondant {adj} | :: melt in the mouth |
| fondant {f} | :: fondant (all senses) |
| fondateur {m} | :: founder |
| fondation {f} [business] | :: foundation |
| fondation {f} [construction] | :: foundation |
| fondatrice {f} | :: founder (female) |
| fond de teint {m} [cosmetics] | :: foundation |
| fondement {m} | :: foundation (all senses) |
| fondement {m} | :: fundament (anus) |
| fonder {v} | :: to found |
| fonderie {f} | :: foundry |
| fondeur {m} | :: cross-country skier (from ski de fond) |
| fondeur {m} | :: founder, the iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation in a foundry |
| fondeur {m} | :: owner of a foundry |
| fondouk {m} [North Africa] | :: hotel, hostel; fonduk |
| fondre {vi} | :: to dwindle; to diminish |
| fondre {vi} | :: to melt |
| fondre {vi} | :: to melt away, waste away |
| fondre {vr} [se fondre dans] | :: to blend in, blend into |
| fondre {vt} | :: to melt, melt down, smelt |
| fondre comme neige au soleil {v} [simile] | :: to dwindle or diminish very rapidly |
| fondrière {f} | :: pothole (hole in a road caused by weathering) |
| fonds {mp} | :: fund, funds |
| fonds {mp} | :: resources |
| fonds {m} [Switzerland] | :: field |
| fonds commercial {m} | :: goodwill (the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities) |
| fondu {m} | :: fade |
| fondu {m} [film, video] | :: fade |
| fondue {f} | :: fondue |
| foëne {f} | :: a fishgig; a pronged harpoon |
| foène {f} | :: alternative spelling of foëne |
| foëne {f} [regional] | :: a pitchfork for handling hay |
| foëner {v} [regionalism] | :: to make hay |
| foëner {v} | :: to fish with a fishgig |
| fongibilité {f} | :: fungibility |
| fongible {adj} [legal] | :: fungible (able to be substituted for something of equal value) |
| fongicide {adj} | :: fungicidal |
| fongicide {m} | :: fungicide |
| fongique {adj} | :: fungal |
| fonio {m} | :: Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa |
| fontaine {f} | :: cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet) |
| fontaine {f} | :: fountain |
| fontaine {f} [juggling] | :: fountain |
| fontaine {f} | :: standpipe |
| Fontaine {prop} | :: surname |
| fontaine de lave {f} [geology] | :: lava fountain |
| fontainerie {f} | :: The manufacture of fountains or of domestic plumbing |
| fontainier {m} | :: A person who builds fountains |
| fontainier {m} | :: a plumber |
| fontainière {f} | :: feminine singular of fontainier |
| fontanelle {f} | :: fontanelle |
| fonte {f} | :: cast iron |
| fonte {f} | :: holster (on saddle) |
| fonte {f} | :: melting, smelting, thawing |
| fonte {f} [typography] | :: fount |
| Fontenay-aux-Roses {prop} | :: A French commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris |
| Fontenot {prop} | :: surname |
| fonts {mp} | :: church font, as that used for baptism |
| foodista {f} | :: foodie |
| foot {m} [colloquial] | :: association football; football, soccer |
| football {m} | :: association football, soccer |
| football {m} [Canada] | :: Canadian football |
| football {m} [less common] | :: American football |
| football américain {m} [Europe] | :: American football |
| football canadien {m} | :: Canadian football |
| footballeur {m} | :: footballer |
| footballeuse {f} | :: (female) footballer |
| footballistique {adj} | :: footballing |
| footballène {m} [colloquial] | :: buckminsterfullerène |
| footeux {adj} [colloquial, attributive] | :: footie; footballing (related to football (soccer)) |
| footeux {m} [colloquial] | :: footie player; footballer (soccer player) |
| footing {m} [France] | :: Exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise) |
| foré {adj} | :: bored, drilled |
| for- {prefix} | :: [nonproductive] prefix used to express error, exclusion, or inadequacy |
| forçable {adj} | :: forceable; able to be forced |
| forage {m} | :: drilling (act of drilling) |
| forain {adj} | :: fair, fairground (attributive) |
| forain {m} | :: showman (fairground entertainer) |
| forain {m} | :: stallholder |
| foraminifère {m} | :: foraminifer |
| forçat {m} | :: convict |
| forçat {m} | :: galley slave |
| forban {m} [archaic] | :: pirate |
| forban {m} | :: rogue, scoundrel; an unscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing |
| force {adj} [archaic] | :: Many; a lot of; a great quantity of |
| force {f} | :: force |
| force de frappe {f} [countable, military] | :: strike force |
| force de frappe {f} [uncountable] | :: force de frappe |
| forcené {adj} | :: crazed, frenzied, deranged |
| forcené {m} | :: maniac |
| forcener {v} | :: to become enraged |
| forcer {v} | :: to force |
| forces aériennes {fp} [military] | :: air force, air corps or flying corps |
| Forces armées canadiennes {prop} [Canada, military] | :: Forces canadiennes |
| Forces canadiennes {prop} [Canada, military] | :: Canadian Forces |
| forceur {m} | :: aggressor |
| forceur {m} | :: forcer |
| forceuse {f} | :: feminine singular of forceur |
| forcir {vi} | :: to become stronger, fatter |
| forclore {vt} [legal] | :: to debar |
| forclusion {f} [legal] | :: debarment |
| forcément {adv} | :: inevitably |
| forcément {adv} | :: (with a negative) necessarily |
| fordisme {m} | :: Fordism |
| forer {v} | :: to bore; to drill (to make a hole) |
| foresterie {f} [Canada] | :: forestry |
| forestier {adj} [attributive] | :: forested |
| forestier {m} | :: male forester |
| Forestier {prop} | :: a French surname |
| forestière {f} | :: feminine noun of forestier |
| foret {m} | :: drill bit (driving part of a drill) |
| foreur {m} | :: driller |
| foreuse {f} | :: drill (tool) |
| forfait {m} | :: crime, infamy |
| forfait {m} [sports] | :: elimination due to withdrawal |
| forfait {m} [telephone] | :: flat rate, fixed rate |
| forfait {m} [tourism] | :: a package, a pass |
| forfaitaire {adj} | :: fixed-price; flat-rate; inclusive |
| forfaitairement {adv} | :: at a flat rate; inclusively |
| forfaiture {f} [legal] | :: abuse of authority |
| forfanterie {f} | :: boasting, boastfulness |
| forficule {f} | :: earwig |
| forge {f} | :: forge (furnace) |
| forge {f} | :: forge (workshop) |
| forgeage {m} | :: forging (metalworking) |
| forger {v} [equestrian] | :: to trot |
| forger {v} [figuratively] | :: to create, to conceive, to make up |
| forger {v} | :: to fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge |
| forger {v} | :: to forge, falsify |
| forgeron {m} | :: blacksmith |
| forgeronne {f} | :: feminine noun of forgeron |
| forjuger {v} [obsolete] | :: To strip somebody of a right, a property, by legal sentence, to dispossess |
| formable {adj} | :: formable, shapeable |
| formage {m} | :: forming (metalworking) |
| formaldéhyde {m} [organic compound] | :: formaldehyde |
| formaliser {vp} | :: to take offense |
| formaliser {v} | :: to formalize, legalize |
| formalisme {m} | :: formalism |
| formaliste {adj} | :: formalist |
| formaliste {mf} | :: formalist |
| formalité {f} | :: formality (all meanings) |
| format {m} | :: format |
| formatage {m} [computing] | :: the act of formatting |
| formatage {m} [pejorative] | :: the act of restraining someone in a certain fixed way/manner of thought/thinking (cf. set in one's ways) |
| formater {v} [computing] | :: to format |
| formateur {adj} | :: shaping |
| formateur {m} | :: trainer, former |
| formation {f} | :: education; training |
| formation {f} | :: formation, forming, development |
| formation {f} [military] | :: formation |
| formatrice {f} | :: feminine noun of formateur |
| forme {f} | :: form |
| forme {f} | :: shape (geometrical representation) |
| forme {f} | :: shape (physical appearance) |
| forme canonique {f} [linguistics] | :: dictionary form (standard or normal form of a word) |
| forme canonique {f} [mathematics] | :: canonical form (standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity) |
| forme fruste {f} [medical] | :: forme fruste, unfinished form |
| formel {adj} | :: formal |
| formellement {adv} | :: formally |
| former {v} | :: to form (generic sense) |
| former {v} | :: to shape (to make into a certain shape) |
| former {v} | :: to train; to educate |
| formidable {adj} [dated or literary] | :: fearsome |
| formidable {adj} | :: fantastic, tremendous |
| formidablement {adv} | :: brilliantly; excellently |
| formidablement {adv} | :: formidably |
| formique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: formic |
| formosan {adj} | :: Formosan |
| formulable {adj} | :: formulable |
| formulaire {m} | :: form (document to be filled in) |
| formulation {f} | :: formulation |
| formulation {f} | :: wording |
| formule {f} | :: formula |
| formule {f} [gastronomy] | :: menu offer, set meal |
| Formule 1 {f} | :: Formula One |
| formuler {v} | :: to formulate |
| formulette {f} | :: A brief, verbal phrase, used in traditional circumstances, children's games etc |
| formyle {m} [organic chemistry] | :: formyl |
| formylium {m} | :: formylium |
| forniquer {v} | :: to fornicate |
| forêt {f} | :: forest |
| fort {adj} [colloquial] | :: skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" [often used in reference to academic subjects] |
| fort {adj} | :: strong; powerful |
| fort {adv} | :: much, a lot |
| fort {adv} | :: strongly |
| fort {adv} [when preceding an adjective] | :: very [the adjective] |
| fort {m} | :: A fort |
| Fort-de-France {prop} | :: A city and the capital of Martinique |
| fortement {adv} | :: highly, extremely, sorely |
| fortement {adv} | :: seriously, greatly |
| fortement {adv} | :: strongly, powerfully |
| forteresse {f} | :: fortress |
| fortiche {adj} [colloquial] | :: clever, smart, brainy |
| fortiche {mf} [colloquial] | :: someone who's intelligent, a brain |
| fortifié {adj} | :: fortified |
| fortifiant {adj} | :: fortifying, strengthening, restorative |
| fortification {f} | :: fortification (all meanings) |
| fortifier {v} | :: to fortify (make stronger) |
| Fortin {prop} | :: surname |
| fortissimo {adv} [music] | :: fortissimo |
| fortitude {f} | :: fortitude |
| Forêt-Noire {prop} {f} | :: Black Forest (German forest and mountain range) |
| fortuit {adj} | :: fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune) |
| fortuitement {adv} | :: fortuitously |
| fortuné {adj} | :: wealthy; well-off |
| fortuné {adj} | :: With good luck; fortunate |
| fortune {f} | :: fortune |
| forêt vierge {f} | :: virgin forest, primeval forest |
| forum {m} | :: forum |
| forum {m} | :: forum (for Internet) |
| forézien {adj} | :: Of or from Feurs |
| fossé {m} | :: ditch; trench; moat |
| fosse {f} | :: pit (hole in the ground) |
| fossette {f} | :: dimple |
| fossile {m} | :: fossil |
| fossilifère {adj} | :: fossiliferous |
| fossilisation {f} | :: fossilization (the process of conversion into a fossil) |
| fossiliser {v} | :: to fossilize |
| fossoyeur {m} | :: gravedigger |
| fou {adj} | :: mad, crazy |
| fou {m} | :: booby (bird) |
| fou {m} [chess] | :: bishop |
| fou {m} [court entertainer] | :: jester |
| fou {m} | :: madman |
| fouace {f} | :: a type of brioche or other light pastry or bun from some regions of France, such as Auvergne |
| fouane {f} | :: alternative form of foëne |
| foucade {f} | :: caprice |
| foucaldien {adj} | :: Foucauldian |
| Foucault {prop} [philosophy] | :: the French philosopher Michel Foucault |
| Foucault {prop} [physics] | :: the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault |
| Foucault {prop} | :: surname |
| Foucher {prop} | :: surname |
| fou comme un balai {adj} [Quebec, simile] | :: very agitated out of excitation or anxiousness |
| fou de la gâchette {adj} | :: trigger-happy (with firearms) |
| fou de la gâchette {m} | :: a trigger-happy man (with firearms) |
| foudre {f} | :: lightning |
| foudre {m} [heraldiccharge] | :: thunderbolt |
| foudroyé {adj} | :: blasted, devastated |
| foudroyé {adj} | :: thunderstruck |
| foudroyant {adj} | :: devastating |
| foudroyer {v} | :: to devastate; to cause to be thunderstruck |
| foudroyer {v} | :: to strike (of lightning) |
| fouet {m} [cooking] | :: whisk |
| fouet {m} | :: whip (tool) |
| fouet {m} [zoology] | :: tip |
| fouetté {adj} | :: whipped |
| fouettard {adj} | :: whipping - but used only in the term père fouettard |
| fouette-cul {m} | :: A person in charge of administering discipline by serious spankings, as once done to pupils in French Catholic schools by a priest |
| fouettement {m} | :: lashing, whipping |
| fouetter {vi} [slang] | :: to stink |
| fouetter {vti} | :: to hit and sting like a whip |
| fouetter {vt} | :: to beat with a whip |
| fouetter {vt} | :: to mix food in a rapid aerating fashion |
| fouetter {vt} | :: to stimulate or urge into action |
| fouetteur {m} | :: whipper, beater (someone who beats, especially with a whip) |
| foufou {adj} [colloquial] | :: nutty, scatty, dippy |
| foufoune {f} [France] | :: vulva (especially of young girls); foo-foo, front bottom |
| foufoune {f} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: buttock |
| foufounette {f} | :: pussy |
| fougasse {f} [culinary] | :: fougasse (lattice-shaped bread associated with Provence) |
| fougasse {f} [military] | :: fougasse (land-mine) |
| fougeraie {f} | :: stand of ferns |
| fougère {f} | :: fern |
| Fougère {prop} | :: surname |
| fougue {f} | :: enthusiasm, ardour |
| fougueusement {adv} | :: ardently |
| fougueusement {adv} | :: impetuously |
| fougueux {adj} | :: enthusiastic |
| fougueux {adj} | :: spirited, lively |
| fouille {f} [archaeology] | :: excavation |
| fouille {f} | :: rummage |
| fouille {f} | :: search (act of searching through something, e.g. a bag, pocket) |
| fouille-merde {mf} | :: muckraker (a scandal-mongering person who is not driven by any social principle) |
| fouiller {vi} | :: to rummage, delve (dans in) |
| fouiller {vr} | :: to go through one's pockets |
| fouiller {vt} | :: to dig |
| fouiller {vt} | :: to go into, investigate (question, issue) |
| fouiller {vt} | :: to search, frisk (person) |
| fouiller {vt} | :: to search (place, thing) |
| fouillis {m} | :: mess, confusion, jumble |
| fouine {f} | :: beech marten |
| fouiner {v} [colloquial] | :: to furrow, ferret, snoop around |
| fouineur {m} | :: busybody (someone who interferes with others) |
| fouineur {m} [computing] | :: hacker |
| fouineuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fouineur |
| fouir {vt} | :: to dig, grub, burrow |
| fouisseur {adj} | :: burrowing |
| foulé {adj} | :: sprained; twisted |
| foulage {m} | :: pressing, crushing |
| foulant {adj} | :: crowding, pressing (by use of pressure) |
| foulard {m} | :: headscarf |
| foulée {f} | :: stride (of horse, athlete etc.) |
| foule {f} | :: a great number, multitude, mass; host |
| foule {f} | :: crowd |
| foule {f} | :: oppression, vexation |
| foule {f} | :: the act or process of treading or milling |
| foule {f} | :: the thronging of a crowd |
| fouler {vr} | :: to sprain |
| fouler {vt} | :: to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting |
| fouler {vt} | :: to oppress, mistreat |
| fouler {vt} | :: to stamp, impress, dent; to mill |
| fouler {vt} | :: to walk on, trample |
| fouleur {m} | :: fuller (profession) |
| fouleuse {f} | :: feminine singular of fouleur |
| fouloir {m} | :: press (for grapes etc) |
| foulon {m} | :: fuller (job) |
| foulonné {adj} | :: tanned |
| foulque {f} | :: coot (bird) |
| foultitude {f} | :: oodles (a large number of things) |
| foulure {f} | :: sprain |
| fouëne {f} | :: alternative spelling of foëne |
| foune {f} [vulgar] | :: pussy, beaver (vagina) |
| Fouquet {prop} | :: surname |
| four {m} | :: flop |
| four {m} | :: oven |
| four {m} | :: stove |
| fourbe {adj} | :: two-faced, treacherous, deceitful |
| fourbe {f} [literary] | :: guile, deception |
| fourbe {mf} | :: double-dealer, swindler |
| fourberie {f} | :: deceit, trickery, guile |
| fourbi {m} | :: junk |
| fourbi {m} | :: stuff, kit |
| fourbir {vt} | :: to furbish, burnish |
| fourbisseur {m} | :: furbisher (of weapons) |
| fourbu {adj} | :: exhausted |
| fourbu {adj} | :: worn out |
| fourche {f} | :: crotch |
| fourche {f} | :: fork (in the road etc.) |
| fourche {f} | :: fork (of a bicycle) |
| fourche {f} | :: pitchfork |
| fourche {f} | :: split end (hair) |
| fourcher {vi} | :: to fork |
| fourcher {vi} | :: to make a slip of the tongue |
| fourchette {f} | :: band, bracket (as of taxes) |
| fourchette {f} [chess] | :: fork |
| fourchette {f} | :: fork (for eating) |
| fourchette {f} | :: frog (part of a horse's hoof) |
| fourchette {f} [statistics] | :: margin |
| fourchette {f} | :: wishbone |
| fourchette sternale {f} | :: suprasternal notch |
| fourchette vulvaire {f} [anatomy] | :: fourchette |
| fourchu {adj} | :: cloven, cleft |
| fourchu {adj} | :: forked |
| fourchu {adj} | :: split (ends of hair) |
| fourgon {m} [archaic] | :: coach, wagon |
| fourgon {m} [archaic, military] | :: truck |
| fourgon {m} | :: minivan |
| fourgon {m} | :: poker, fire poker |
| fourgon {m} [rail] | :: goods wagon, freight car |
| fourgon {m} | :: van |
| fourgonnette {f} | :: minivan |
| fourgonnette {f} | :: van |
| fourguer {v} | :: to get rid of (something) |
| fourguer {v} | :: to sell off; to flog |
| Fourier {prop} | :: French mathematician Joseph Fourier |
| Fourier {prop} | :: surname |
| fouriérisme {m} | :: Fourierism |
| fouriériste {adj} | :: Fourierist |
| fourme {f} | :: a type of blue cheese made from cow's milk |
| fourmi {f} | :: ant |
| fourmi {f} [plurale tantum] | :: pins and needles |
| four micro-onde {m} | :: microwave oven |
| four à micro-ondes {m} | :: microwave oven, microwave (oven) |
| fourmilier {m} | :: anteater |
| fourmilier {m} | :: any of a number of different species of ant-eating birds |
| fourmilier géant {m} | :: giant anteater |
| fourmilier nain {m} | :: silky anteater, pygmy anteater |
| fourmilière {f} | :: anthill |
| fourmillement {m} | :: pins and needles |
| fourmillement {m} | :: swarming |
| fourmiller {v} | :: to swarm, to be full of |
| fourmiller {v} | :: to tingle |
| fourmis {fp} | :: pins and needles |
| fournaise {f} | :: blaze, conflagration |
| fournaise {f} | :: furnace, oven |
| fournée {f} [by extension, baking] | :: batch |
| fournée {f} | :: the capacity of an oven |
| fourneau {m} | :: chamber (of a tobacco pipe) |
| fourneau {m} [slang, archaic] | :: begger, hobo |
| fourneau {m} | :: stove (cooker) |
| fourneau {m} | :: stove (heater) |
| fourni {adj} | :: abundant, luxuriant |
| Fournier {prop} | :: surname |
| fournil {m} | :: bakehouse |
| fourniment {m} | :: equipment, kit, furniment |
| fournir {v} [card games] | :: To follow suit |
| fournir {v} [slang] | :: To poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex |
| fournir {v} | :: to put in |
| fournir {v} | :: to supply, to provide |
| fournisseur {m} | :: provider, supplier |
| fournisseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fournisseur |
| fourniture {f} | :: provisioning, victualling |
| fourniture {f} | :: supply, provision |
| fourré {m} | :: shrubbery |
| fourrage {m} | :: forage, fodder |
| fourrager {adj} | :: fodder [attributive] |
| fourrager {vi} | :: to forage |
| fourrager {vi} | :: to rummage through |
| fourragère {f} | :: hay wagon |
| fourre {f} [Switzerland] | :: cover, slipcover, folder |
| fourreau {m} | :: scabbard, sheath |
| fourreau {m} | :: sheath dress |
| fourrer {vt} [colloquial] | :: to shove, stick, stuff (dans in something) |
| fourrer {vt} | :: to stuff (a turkey etc.); to fill (a cake) |
| fourrer {vt} [vulgar, slang] | :: to fuck, to shaft, to screw |
| fourre-tout {m} | :: holdall (UK), carryall (US) |
| fourre-tout {m} [pejorative] | :: free-for-all |
| fourreur {m} | :: furrier |
| fourrière {f} | :: pound (a place for the detention of stray animals) |
| fourrière {f} | :: tow pound (to where law enforcement tows vehicle) |
| fourrure {f} [zoology, fashion, heraldry] | :: fur |
| fourvoyer {vp} | :: to make a mistake, go astray, err |
| fourvoyer {v} | :: to cloak |
| fourvoyer {vt} | :: to mislead |
| fous {pron} | :: eye dialect of vous |
| foutage de gueule {m} [vulgar] | :: piss-take (form of mockery) |
| foutaise {f} | :: crap, bullcrap (nonsense) |
| foutaises {fp} | :: guff (nonsensical talk or thinking) |
| fouteur {m} [vulgar, dated] | :: fucker (one who loves or frequently participates in sex) |
| foutoir {m} [archaic, vulgar] | :: brothel |
| foutoir {m} [slang] | :: mess, shambles |
| foutre {m} [vulgar, slang] | :: spunk, sperm, cum |
| foutre {vr} [slang] | :: to tease, to make fun of, to mock, to not take seriously or to dismiss |
| foutre {vr} [vulgar] | :: to fuck off, to jerk off, to wank |
| foutre {vt} [slang] | :: to give |
| foutre {vt} [slang] | :: to put on/in (quickly), to shove, to stick, to stash |
| foutre {vt} [vulgar, archaic] | :: to fuck, to screw, to have sex |
| foutre {vt} [vulgar, slang] | :: to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to fritter, to tinker |
| foutre en l'air {vt} [slang] | :: to screw up, mess up, fuck up, botch up something |
| foutre le camp {v} [idiomatic, slang, somewhat vulgar] | :: to get the hell out; to get out of here; to bugger off; to get stuffed; to sling one's hook |
| foutrement {adv} [as an intensifier] | :: bloody, fucking |
| foutu {adj} [slang] | :: broken beyond repair, destroyed |
| foutu {adj} [slang] | :: done for, screwed, fucked |
| foutu {adj} [slang] | :: in an extremely difficult or impossible situation |
| foutu {adj} [slang, pejorative, always before the noun] | :: fucking (as an intensifier) |
| foutument {adv} | :: damnedly |
| foutument {adv} | :: very |
| fovéa {f} [anatomy] | :: fovea; retinal fovea |
| fovéal {adj} | :: foveal |
| foxé {adj} | :: (of wine) foxy; tasting of blackcurrant |
| fox-trot {m} | :: foxtrot (dance) |
| fox-trott {m} | :: alternative spelling of fox-trot |
| foyer {m} | :: hearth |
| foyer {m} | :: home, domicile |
| foyer {m} | :: household |
| foyer {m} | :: lobby, foyer |
| foyer {m} | :: source, centre, seat |
| fpqc {adj} [maths] | :: initialism of fidèlement plat et quasi-compact |
| fqih {m} | :: fqih, faqih |
| frac {m} | :: white tie and tails |
| fracas {m} | :: crash |
| fracas {m} | :: din, roar |
| fracasser {v} | :: to smash (to break violently) |
| fraîchement {adv} | :: freshly |
| fraîcheur {f} [climate] | :: coolness |
| fraîcheur {f} | :: freshness |
| fraîchir {v} [impersonal] | :: to deteriorate [weather] |
| fraîchir {vi} | :: to freshen [temperature, wind] |
| fractal {adj} | :: fractal |
| fractal {m} [rare] | :: synonym of fractale |
| fractale {m} | :: fractal (self-similar shape) |
| fraction {f} | :: fraction, breakup |
| fraction {f} | :: fraction (small amount) |
| fraction {f} [mathematics] | :: fraction |
| fractionné {adj} | :: fractionated |
| fractionnaire {adj} [mathematics] | :: fractional (of or pertaining to fractions) |
| fractionnel {adj} | :: fractional |
| fractionnement {m} | :: division |
| fractionnement {m} | :: fractionation |
| fractionner {vt} | :: to divide [into fractions] |
| fractionner {vt} | :: to fractionate |
| fractionnisme {m} | :: fractionism |
| fractionniste {adj} | :: fractionist |
| fractionniste {mf} | :: fractionist |
| fracturation {f} | :: breaking, fracturing |
| fracturation hydraulique {f} [oil industry] | :: hydraulic fracturing, fracking |
| fracture {f} | :: fracture |
| fracturer {vt} | :: To fracture |
| fragile {adj} | :: fragile |
| fragilement {adv} | :: fragilely |
| fragilisation {f} | :: embrittlement |
| fragilisation {f} | :: weakening |
| fragiliser {v} | :: to weaken |
| fragilité {f} | :: fragility |
| fragment {m} | :: fragment |
| fragmentaire {adj} | :: fragmentary |
| fragmentation {f} | :: fragmentation |
| fragment d'Okazaki {m} [genetics] | :: Okazaki fragment |
| fragmenter {vt} | :: to split up, divide, fragment |
| fragon {m} | :: laurel, butcher's broom (and other plants of the genus Ruscus) |
| frai {m} | :: fry (young fish); spawn |
| fraichement {adv} | :: alternative spelling of fraîchement |
| fraicheur {f} | :: alternative spelling of fraîcheur |
| frairie {f} | :: fete, festival (of a locality) |
| frairie {f} | :: merrymaking |
| frais {adj} | :: cool (temperature) |
| frais {adj} | :: fresh |
| frais {adj} | :: recent, something that has just happened |
| fraisé {adj} | :: sheered |
| frais {mp} | :: cost, charge |
| fraisage {m} | :: sheering |
| frais de scolarité {mp} | :: tuition |
| fraise {f} | :: bulwark, palisade (defensive rampart of earth with sharpened wooden stakes set in at an angle) |
| fraise {f} | :: calf's mesentery |
| fraise {f} [historical] | :: fraise (ruff collar) |
| fraise {f} [literary] | :: nipple |
| fraise {f} | :: milling cutter |
| fraise {f} | :: strawberry |
| fraiser {v} | :: to sheer (with a cutting tool) |
| fraiseraie {f} | :: strawberry orchard |
| fraiseur {m} | :: milling machine operator |
| fraiseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fraiseur |
| fraiseuse {f} | :: milling machine |
| fraisier {m} | :: strawberry (plant) |
| féral {adj} | :: feral; wild |
| féralies {fp} | :: Feralia |
| framboise {adj} | :: raspberry (colour) |
| framboise {f} | :: raspberry (fruit) |
| framboiseraie {f} | :: raspberry orchard |
| framboisier {m} | :: Rubus idaeus, the raspberry plant |
| Françafrique {prop} {f} [often, pejorative] | :: Relations between France and its former colonies in Africa |
| français {adj} | :: Of or pertaining to France |
| français {m} | :: The French language |
| Français {m} | :: Frenchman |
| Française {f} | :: Frenchwoman |
| franc {adj} | :: frank |
| franc {adj} | :: Frankish, Franconian |
| franc {adj} | :: free |
| franc {adj} | :: full |
| franc {adj} | :: tax-free |
| franc {m} | :: Frank |
| franc {m} [monetary] | :: franc |
| Franc {m} | :: Frank (member of a people that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany) |
| franc CFA {m} | :: CFA franc |
| franc-comtois {adj} | :: Of or pertaining to Franche-Comté or its inhabitants |
| franc-comtois {m} | :: The dialect spoken in Franche-Comté |
| France {prop} {f} | :: France (country) |
| France {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| France {prop} {f} | :: surname |
| France profonde {prop} {f} | :: A phrase used in French political and social commentary to mean rural, small-town France, as opposed to Paris and other large cities |
| Francfort {prop} | :: Frankfurt (German city) |
| francfortois {adj} [attributive] | :: Frankfurt |
| Francfortois {m} | :: Frankfurter (someone from Frankfurt) |
| Francfortoise {f} | :: feminine noun of Francfortois |
| franc français {m} | :: French franc |
| Franche-Comté {prop} {f} | :: Franche-Comté (region of France) |
| franchement {adv} | :: frankly; sincerely |
| franchir {v} | :: to clear, to cross (a line), to pass (an obstacle etc.); to get over (a fence) |
| franchir {v} | :: to cover (a distance) |
| franchir le Rubicon {v} [idiomatic] | :: to cross the Rubicon |
| franchisage {m} | :: franchising |
| franchise {f} [archaic] | :: liberty, freedom |
| franchise {f} [business] | :: franchise |
| franchise {f} | :: frankness, honesty |
| franchise {f} [insurance] | :: excess [UK], deductible [US] |
| franchiser {v} [business] | :: to franchise |
| franchiseur {m} | :: franchisor |
| franchisme {m} | :: alternative form of frankisme |
| franchissable {adj} | :: surmountable, passable |
| franchissement {m} | :: the act of clearing (e.g. an obstacle) |
| franchissement {m} | :: the act of crossing (e.g. a road, a river) |
| franchouillard {adj} | :: typically French (in a pejorative manner) |
| franchouillardement {adv} | :: In a typically French manner (pejoratively) |
| francien {adj} | :: Francien |
| francien {m} | :: Francien |
| francilien {adj} | :: Of or pertaining to the Île-de-France region of France |
| Francilien {m} | :: person from Île-de-France |
| Francilienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Francilien |
| Francine {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| francique {adj} | :: Franconian |
| francique {adj} | :: Frankish |
| francique {m} | :: Franconian |
| francique {m} | :: Frankish |
| francique ripuaire {m} | :: Ripuarian |
| Francis {prop} | :: given name, variant of François |
| francisation {f} | :: Frenchification, francization |
| franciscain {adj} | :: Franciscan |
| franciser {v} | :: to Frenchify |
| francisque {f} | :: A decoration awarded by the Vichy regime |
| francisque {f} | :: A type of throwing axe |
| francité {f} | :: Frenchness (being French) |
| francitude {f} | :: Frenchness |
| francium {m} | :: francium |
| Franck {prop} {m} | :: given name, cognate to Frank |
| franckisme {m} | :: alternative form of frankisme |
| franc-maçon {m} | :: Freemason |
| franco- {prefix} | :: Franco- (relating to France, the French or the Franks) |
| franconien {adj} | :: Franconian (relating to the Franks or their empire; Frankish) |
| franconien {adj} | :: relating to the Franconcian languages |
| franconien {m} | :: Frankish (language) |
| Franconien {m} | :: Franconian person |
| Franconienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Franconien |
| francophile {adj} | :: Francophile |
| francophile {mf} | :: A Francophile |
| francophilie {f} | :: francophilia |
| francophobe {adj} | :: Francophobe |
| francophobe {mf} | :: Francophobe |
| francophobie {f} | :: Francophobia |
| francophone {adj} | :: Francophone |
| francophone {mf} | :: a Francophone |
| francophonie {f} | :: Francophonie |
| Francophonie {prop} {f} | :: Francophonie (organization of countries) |
| francoprovençal {adj} | :: alternative form of franco-provençal |
| franco-provençal {adj} | :: Franco-Provençal |
| francoprovençal {m} | :: alternative form of franco-provençal |
| franco-provençal {m} | :: Franco-Provençal |
| franc suisse {m} | :: Swiss franc |
| franc-tireur {m} [figuratively] | :: someone who works alone, outside of the rules |
| franc-tireur {m} [military] | :: a sniper |
| frange {f} | :: fringe |
| franger {v} | :: to fringe |
| frangible {adj} | :: breakable |
| frangin {m} [colloquial] | :: bro |
| frangin {m} [colloquial] | :: buddy; mate |
| frangine {f} [colloquial] | :: sis, sister |
| frangipanier {m} | :: frangipani (tree) |
| franglais {m} | :: Franglais |
| Frank {prop} {m} | :: given name, cognate to English Frank |
| frankisme {m} [religion] | :: Frankism |
| frankiste {mf} | :: Frankist |
| François {prop} {m} | :: given name, equivalent to Francis in English |
| François {prop} {m} | :: surname |
| Françoise {prop} {f} | :: given name, equivalent to English-language Frances |
| Franque {f} | :: feminine noun of Franc |
| franquette {f} | :: only used in à la bonne franquette |
| franquisme {m} | :: Francoism |
| franquiste {adj} | :: Franquist |
| frapadingue {m} | :: alternate spelling of frappadingue |
| frappé {adj} | :: beaten, hit |
| frappé {m} [music] | :: downbeat |
| frappé {m} | :: Short for café frappé, iced coffee |
| frappé {m} [Switzerland] | :: milkshake |
| frappadingue {adj} [informal, slang] | :: mad, crazy |
| frappadingue {mf} [informal, slang] | :: a madman/woman, a lunatic |
| frappant {adj} | :: striking; noticeable; remarkable |
| frappe {f} | :: hit |
| frappe {f} [pejorative] | :: knave, thug, villain |
| frappe {f} | :: strike, striking, kick |
| frapper {v} [bartending] | :: to shake |
| frapper {v} [figuratively] | :: to strike |
| frapper {v} [music] | :: to beat time (as a conductor) |
| frapper {v} [music] | :: to strike (a chord) |
| frapper {v} | :: to bang (to get attention) |
| frapper {v} | :: to hit (to be affected by a punishment) |
| frapper {v} | :: to hit, to strike, to bash |
| frapper {v} | :: to knock (e.g. on a door) |
| frapper {v} | :: to strike down |
| frapper les grands coups {v} [idiomatic] | :: make waves |
| frapper un ennemi à terre {v} [idiomatic] | :: To kick someone when they are down |
| frapper un grand coup {v} [idiomatic] | :: make a splash, hit hard |
| frappeur {m} [baseball, cricket] | :: hitter, batter |
| frappeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of frappeur |
| frasage {m} | :: tempering (mixing of bread ingredients before kneading them) |
| fraser {v} | :: to slowly mix yeast, flour and water |
| frasque {f} | :: escapade; a foolish experience or adventure |
| fraternel {adj} | :: fraternal |
| fraternellement {adv} | :: fraternally |
| fraternisation {f} | :: fraternization |
| fraterniser {v} | :: to fraternize |
| fraternité {f} | :: brotherhood (organization) |
| fraternité {f} | :: brotherhood (state of being brothers or a brother) |
| fraternité {f} | :: fraternity |
| fratricide {adj} | :: fratricidal |
| fratricide {m} | :: fratricide (crime) |
| fratricide {m} | :: fratricide (person who commits this crime) |
| fratrie {f} | :: set of siblings |
| fraude {f} [education] | :: cheating |
| fraude {f} | :: fraud |
| fraude fiscale {f} | :: tax evasion |
| frauder {vi} | :: To commit fraud |
| fraudeur {f} | :: A fraudster |
| frauduleusement {adv} | :: fraudulently |
| frauduleux {adj} | :: fraudulent (all meanings) |
| fraudulosité {f} | :: fraudulentness |
| frayer {vi} [zoology] | :: to spawn, to fertilize an egg |
| frayer {v} [obsolete] | :: to rub |
| frayer {vr} [se frayer, literally, figuratively] | :: to find (one's way through something); to clear (oneself) a path |
| frayer {vt} | :: to open up, clear (a path etc.) |
| frayeur {f} | :: fright, fear, dread |
| Frédéric {prop} | :: given name, equivalent to English Frederick |
| frédéricien {adj} | :: Frederician |
| Frédérique {prop} | :: given name, the feminine form of Frédéric; an equivalent of Frederica |
| fredaine {f} | :: prank, escapade |
| fredonner {v} | :: to hum (to make sound with lips closed) |
| fredonneur {m} | :: hummer |
| fredonneuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fredonneur |
| freezer {m} | :: freezer compartment |
| frein {m} | :: brake (of a vehicle, etc.) |
| frein {m} [chiefly obsolete] | :: bit (equipment put in a horse's mouth) |
| frein {m} | :: restraint, reserve |
| freinage {m} | :: action of braking |
| freinage {m} | :: deceleration |
| frein à disque {m} | :: disc brake |
| freiner {v} [figuratively] | :: to put a stop on, to slow down the progress of |
| freiner {v} | :: to brake |
| frein à main {m} | :: handbrake (hand-operated brake in a car) |
| frelaté {adj} | :: adulterated |
| frelaté {adj} | :: tainted |
| frelon {m} | :: hornet |
| freluquet {m} | :: popinjay |
| freluquet {m} | :: runt |
| freluquet {m} | :: whippersnapper |
| frencher {v} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to French kiss |
| fresque {f} | :: fresco |
| fret {m} [by extension] | :: Rental of a ship, in whole or in part |
| fret {m} | :: Freight, cargo, payload [of a ship] |
| fret {m} [shipping] | :: Freight, cargo fees: the cost of transporting cargo by boat |
| fretin {m} | :: fry (young fish) |
| frette {adj} [Acadia, , Louisiana, Quebec] | :: alternative form of froid |
| frette {f} [heraldiccharge] | :: fret |
| frette {f} [music] | :: fret |
| fretter {v} | :: to reinforce with ferrules |
| freudien {adj} | :: Freudian |
| freudisme {m} | :: Freudianism (freudian beliefs and practices) |
| freux {m} | :: rook (bird) |
| frégate {f} | :: frigatebird |
| frégate {f} [nautical] | :: frigate [a number of different classes of ships] |
| férié {adj} [obsolete] | :: holiday (attributive) |
| friabilité {f} | :: friability |
| friable {adj} | :: crumbly |
| friable {adj} | :: crummy, pitiful |
| friand {adj} | :: cultured, having good taste |
| friand {adj} [of food] | :: delicious, tasty |
| friand {m} | :: friand (a sausage wrapped in puff pastry) |
| friandise {f} [figuratively] | :: something small and dainty |
| friandise {f} [usually, in the plural] | :: sweet; cake; piece of cake |
| Fribourg {prop} | :: Fribourg (the canton of Switzerland) |
| Fribourg {prop} | :: Fribourg (the city) |
| fribourgeois {adj} | :: Of or from Fribourg |
| fric {m} [slang] | :: dosh, dough, bread (money) |
| fricassée {f} | :: fricassee |
| fricasser {v} | :: To fricassee |
| fricasser {v} | :: To partake in debauchery |
| fricatif {adj} | :: fricative |
| fricative {f} [phonetics] | :: fricative |
| friche {f} | :: fallow land |
| friche {f} | :: wasteland |
| fricot {m} [regional] | :: feast |
| fricot {m} | :: stew |
| fricoter {vit} | :: to cook a stew |
| fricoter {vit} | :: to flirt, knock about (with) |
| fricoteur {adj} | :: flirtatious |
| fricoteur {m} | :: flirt |
| friction {f} | :: friction: the rubbing, the conflict or the physics force |
| frictionner {vt} | :: to rub, rub down, massage |
| férier {v} [obsolete] | :: to celebrate |
| frifri {m} | :: pussy (vulva) |
| frigidaire {m} | :: fridge, refrigerator |
| frigide {adj} | :: frigid (unable to take part in sexual intercourse) |
| frigide {adj} | :: frigid (very cold) |
| frigidité {f} | :: frigidity (all senses) |
| frigo {m} [colloquial] | :: fridge; refrigerator |
| frigoporteur {m} | :: coolant |
| frigorifier {vt} | :: to refrigerate |
| frigorifique {adj} | :: refrigerating, cooling |
| frigorigène {adj} | :: refrigerant |
| frigotartinable {adj} | :: (of margarine or butter) spreadable straight from the refrigerator |
| frigoule {f} | :: synonym of thym |
| frileusement {adv} | :: in a chilly manner; shivering |
| frileux {adj} | :: cautious (of policy, attitude etc.) |
| frileux {adj} | :: sensitive to the cold |
| frilosité {f} | :: sensitivity to the cold |
| frimaire {m} [historical] | :: Frimaire (the third month of the French Republican Calendar) |
| frimas {m} [obsolete] | :: Frost |
| frimas {m} | :: Thick fog that tends to freeze |
| frime {f} | :: show (showing off, for the sake of acting) |
| frimer {v} [colloquial] | :: to show off |
| frimeur {m} | :: show-off |
| frimeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of frimeur |
| frimousse {f} [colloquial] | :: sweet face, cute little face |
| frimousse {f} [Internet] | :: emoticon, smiley |
| fringale {f} | :: craving |
| fringale {f} | :: ravenous hunger |
| fringant {adj} | :: alert |
| fringant {adj} | :: dashing |
| fringant {adj} | :: exuberant |
| féringien {adj} | :: Faroese |
| fringue {f} [colloquial] | :: gear (garment, item of clothing) |
| fringuer {vtr} | :: to tog up |
| frioulan {m} | :: Friulian (language spoken in Friuli) |
| fripe {f} | :: rag (tattered clothes) |
| friper {v} | :: to crumple, crush |
| friperie {f} | :: second-hand shop |
| fripier {m} | :: secondhand clothes dealer |
| fripière {f} | :: feminine noun of fripier |
| fripon {adj} | :: mischievous |
| fripon {m} | :: rascal, rogue |
| friponnerie {f} | :: knavery, roguery |
| fripouille {f} [colloquial] | :: crook |
| féérique {adj} | :: alternative form of féerique |
| férir {v} [obsolete] | :: to hit, to strike |
| frire {v} [defective] | :: to fry (cook in hot fat) |
| frisé {adj} | :: curly |
| frisé {adj} | :: twisted; contorted |
| frisbee {m} | :: Frisbee (a disk thrown for recreation) |
| frisbee {m} | :: Frisbee (sport) |
| frise {f} | :: border |
| frise {f} | :: frieze |
| friser {v} [figuratively] | :: to just miss |
| friser {v} | :: to buzz |
| friser {v} | :: to curl |
| friser {v} | :: to graze, to pass by barely touching |
| friser {v} | :: to skip, to print double |
| friseur {m} [dated] | :: hairdresser |
| friseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of friseur |
| frison {m} | :: a lock of hair |
| frisotis {m} | :: alternative form of frisottis |
| frisottis {m} | :: frizz (small curl of hair) |
| frisquet {adj} | :: chilly, cold |
| frisquet {adj} [figurative] | :: reserved, taciturn, cold |
| frisson {m} | :: An experience of intense excitement |
| frisson {m} | :: A shiver or thrill of fright that can be strangely pleasurable, as when reading good horror fiction |
| frissonnant {adj} | :: shivering; thrilled |
| frissonnant {adj} | :: shivery |
| frissonner {v} [literary] | :: rustle |
| frissonner {v} [of emotion] | :: tremble |
| frissonner {v} | :: shiver |
| frisure {f} | :: curl (of hair) |
| frit {adj} | :: fried |
| frite {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: chips, French fries |
| friterie {f} | :: a restaurant that specializes in serving patates frites |
| friterie {f} | :: chip shop, fish and chips takeaway |
| fritillaire {f} | :: fritillary |
| fritté {adj} | :: sintered |
| frittage {m} | :: sintering |
| fritter {vt} | :: to fritter / sinter |
| friture {f} | :: anything that assists in frying such as butter and oil |
| friture {f} [Belgium] | :: (deprecated, use friterie) chip shop, fish and chips takeaway |
| friture {f} [colloquial] | :: signal interference in radios and etc, crackling |
| friture {f} | :: fried product |
| friture {f} | :: the act of frying |
| frivole {adj} | :: vain; conceited |
| frivolement {adv} | :: vainly; conceitedly |
| frivolité {f} | :: frivolity |
| frêle {adj} | :: frail |
| frôlement {m} | :: brush, soft, light touch |
| frôlement {m} | :: caress |
| frôler {vt} | :: to brush against, touch, skim |
| frôler {vt} | :: to verge on |
| Frémicourt {prop} | :: surname |
| frémir {v} | :: to quiver; to shiver |
| frémir {v} | :: to simmer |
| frémissant {adj} | :: simmering (water) |
| frémissement {m} | :: A simmering temperature, just below boiling |
| frémissement {m} | :: quiver, shiver (light shaking movement) |
| Frémont {prop} | :: surname |
| frênaie {f} | :: ash tree plantation |
| frêne {m} | :: ash tree |
| frénésie {f} | :: frenzy |
| frénétique {adj} | :: frantic; frenetic |
| frénétiquement {adv} | :: frantically |
| Frobisher Bay {prop} [obsolete] | :: Iqaluit (capital of Nunavut) |
| froc {m} | :: [by extension] the clerical profession |
| froc {m} [colloquial] | :: pants; trousers |
| froc {m} | :: frock (clerical garment) |
| féroce {adj} | :: ferocious |
| féroce {adj} | :: wild |
| férocement {adv} | :: ferociously |
| férocement {adv} | :: wildly |
| férocité {f} | :: ferocity |
| férocité {f} | :: rabidness |
| féroïen {adj} | :: Faroese, pertaining to the Faroese language, the Faroe Islands and its inhabitants |
| féroïen {m} | :: Faroese, the Faroese language |
| Féroïen {m} | :: A Faroese person |
| Féroïenne {f} | :: feminine noun of Féroïen |
| froid {adj} | :: cold (temperature) |
| froid {m} [diseases] | :: cold, chill |
| froid {m} [of a relationship] | :: distance, strain |
| froidement {adv} [figuratively] | :: coldly |
| froideur {f} | :: coldness, cold |
| froidir {v} [archaic] | :: to cool; to cool off; to cool down |
| froidure {f} [literary] | :: cold |
| froidure {f} [medicine] | :: frostbite |
| froidure {f} [poetic] | :: winter |
| froissé {adj} | :: crumpled, rumpled, creased |
| froissement {m} | :: crumpling (of paper, fabric etc.) |
| froissement {m} [medicine] | :: strain |
| froissement {m} | :: rustle, rustling |
| froisser {v} | :: to crumple, rumple, crease (paper, fabric…) |
| froisser {v} | :: to offend, to hurt someone's feelings |
| fromage {m} | :: cheese |
| fromage à la pie {m} | :: soft cow's-milk cheese with herbs |
| fromager {adj} | :: related to cheese making, especially the industry |
| fromager {m} | :: cheesemaker, one who makes cheese |
| fromager {m} | :: cheesemonger, one who sells cheese |
| fromagerie {f} | :: fromagerie |
| fromageux {adj} | :: Cheesy (resembling cheese) |
| fromagère {f} | :: cheesemaker, one who makes cheese |
| fromagère {f} | :: cheesemonger, one who sells cheese |
| froment {m} [dated, agriculture] | :: wheat, bread wheat, common wheat (Triticum aestivum) |
| froment {m} [Switzerland] | :: (any) cereal (type of grass cultivated for its edible grains) |
| féron {m} | :: ironworker |
| fréon {m} | :: freon |
| fronce {f} | :: a frown; scowl |
| froncement {m} | :: scowl (the wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning) |
| froncer {v} | :: to scowl |
| froncer {vt} | :: to gather (fabric) |
| froncer les sourcils {v} [idiomatic] | :: knit one's brows |
| frondaison {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: foliage |
| frondaison {f} | :: foliation |
| fronde {f} [by extension] | :: criticism, opposition |
| fronde {f} [dated, literary] | :: foliage |
| fronde {f} | :: frond |
| fronde {f} | :: sling, slingshot |
| fronder {v} [dated] | :: to slingshot |
| fronder {v} [figurative] | :: to critique |
| frondeur {adj} | :: politically disapproving |
| frondeur {m} [by extension] | :: political rebel |
| frondeur {m} [historical] | :: member of the Fronde (civil war in France, 1648–1653) |
| frondeur {m} | :: slinger (someone who slings or who uses a sling) |
| frondeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of frondeur |
| fronsac {m} | :: A red wine from the Bordeaux region |
| front {m} [anatomy] | :: forehead |
| front {m} [military] | :: front, frontline |
| frontal {adj} | :: frontal (relating to the forehead) |
| frontalement {adv} | :: frontally |
| frontalier {adj} [attributive] | :: border |
| frontalier {adj} | :: near the border, on the border |
| frontalier {m} | :: border-dweller (someone who lives near the border) |
| frontalière {f} | :: feminine noun of frontalier |
| front intérieur {m} | :: home front |
| frontière {f} | :: boundary, frontier, border |
| frontispice {m} | :: frontispiece |
| frontiste {adj} | :: Of or relating to the Front national |
| frontiste {mf} | :: A member of the Front national |
| fronton {m} [architecture] | :: pediment |
| fronton {m} | :: fronton |
| frottant {adj} | :: rubbing |
| frottement {m} | :: friction |
| frottement {m} | :: rub; rubbing |
| frotter {vp} [figurative, colloquial, se frotter] | :: to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side |
| frotter {v} | :: to fritter |
| frotter {v} | :: to rub, chafe |
| frotter {v} | :: to scrape |
| frotter {v} | :: to scrub, scour |
| frotter {v} | :: to stone |
| frotteur {m} | :: One who rubs a finish on floors |
| frotteurisme {m} | :: frotteurism (paraphilia) |
| frottis {m} [medicine] | :: smear, smear test |
| frottoir {m} | :: brush |
| frottoir {m} | :: friction strip (on a box of matches) |
| frou-frou {m} | :: a frou-frou; a rustling sound, as of silk fabric |
| froufrouter {vi} | :: to rustle |
| frouiller {v} [Switzerland] | :: to cheat |
| froussard {adj} [colloquial] | :: cowardly, chicken |
| frousse {f} [colloquial] | :: fear, terror |
| fréquemment {adv} | :: often, frequently |
| fréquence {f} | :: frequency (all meanings) |
| fréquent {adj} | :: frequent |
| fréquentable {adj} | :: respectable |
| fréquentatif {adj} | :: frequentative |
| fréquentatif {m} | :: frequentative (subclass of imperfective verbs that denotes a continuously repeated action) |
| fréquentation {f} | :: activity |
| fréquentation {f} | :: company, companionship |
| fréquentation {f} | :: frequentation |
| fréquenter {vt} | :: To frequent, to go to (a place) |
| fréquenter {vt} | :: To socialise with (people) |
| frère {m} | :: brother (monk) |
| frère {m} | :: brother (relation) |
| frère de lait {m} | :: foster brother |
| frère siamois {m} | :: (male) Siamese twin |
| frérot {m} [colloquial] | :: bro |
| frérot {m} | :: little brother, kid |
| frésillon {m} | :: synonym of troène |
| fréter {v} | :: to charter; to loan |
| fréteur {m} | :: charterer |
| fréteuse {f} | :: feminine singular of fréteur |
| frétillant {adj} | :: wagging |
| frétillant {adj} | :: wriggling |
| frétiller {vi} | :: to wag [of a tail] |
| frétiller {vi} | :: to wriggle |
| féru {adj} | :: addicted, bitten (figurative sense), passionate about |
| féru {m} | :: fan, addict |
| fructane {m} [carbohydrate] | :: fructan |
| fructidor {m} [historical] | :: Fructidor (the twelfth month of the French Republican Calendar) |
| fructifier {v} | :: to fructify |
| fructose {m} [carbohydrate] | :: fructose |
| fructueusement {adv} | :: fruitfully (producing positive outcomes) |
| fructueux {adj} | :: fruitful |
| frugal {adj} | :: frugal, austere |
| frugalement {adv} | :: frugally |
| frugalité {f} | :: frugality |
| fruict {m} | :: archaic spelling of fruit |
| fruité {adj} | :: fruity (containing fruit or fruit flavoring) |
| fruit {m} | :: fruit |
| fruit à coque {m} | :: nut (a seed possessing a hard shell) |
| fruit de la passion {m} | :: passion fruit |
| fruit de mer {m} | :: a piece of seafood |
| fruit défendu {m} | :: forbidden fruit |
| fruiterie {f} | :: fruitshop |
| fruiticulteur {m} | :: fruit grower |
| fruiticultrice {f} | :: feminine noun of fruiticulteur |
| fruitier {adj} | :: fruit-bearing |
| fruitier {m} | :: fruit-seller |
| fruitière {f} | :: feminine noun of fruitier |
| fruitière {f} [regional] | :: cheese producer (especially of Gruyère) |
| fruits de mer {mp} | :: seafood |
| fruit sec {f} | :: dried fruit |
| férule {f} | :: fennel, giant fennel (genus Ferula) |
| férule {f} | :: ferule (device for hitting schoolchildren) |
| férule {f} | :: the crook of a bishop, abbot, or pope |
| frumentaire {adj} | :: frumentary |
| frusques {fp} [colloquial] | :: clothes, especially poor quality ones |
| fruste {adj} | :: rough, uncouth, coarse |
| frustement {adv} | :: roughly, coarsely |
| frustré {adj} | :: frustrated |
| frustrant {adj} | :: frustrating, vexing |
| frustration {f} | :: frustration |
| frustratoire {adj} | :: vexatious |
| frustratoirement {adv} | :: vexatiously |
| frustrer {v} | :: to frustrate, to vex |
| Fès {prop} {f} | :: Fez (Moroccan town) |
| fût {m} | :: bole (of tree) |
| fût {m} | :: keg, cask, draft |
| fétal {adj} | :: alternative form of fœtal |
| fœtal {adj} | :: fetal |
| fêtard {m} | :: party animal |
| fêtard {m} | :: partygoer |
| fêtarde {f} | :: feminine singular of fêtard |
| fête {f} [Canada] | :: birthday |
| fête {f} | :: holiday |
| fête {f} | :: party |
| fête champêtre {f} | :: A garden party (pastoral festival) that was a popular form of entertainment in the 18th century, particularly popular at the French court, at Versailles. In theory it is a simple pastoral festival but in practice it was often contrived and elaborate with orchestras and fancy dress |
| fête foraine {f} | :: travelling funfair |
| fêter {v} | :: to celebrate [an event] |
| fêter {v} | :: to celebrate [somebody] |
| fétiche {adj} | :: bringing good luck |
| fétiche {adj} [religion] | :: animist |
| fétiche {adj} [sexuality] | :: fetish, used as a sexual fetish |
| fétiche {m} [figuratively] | :: amulet |
| fétiche {m} [religion] | :: fetish, idol |
| fétiche {m} [sexuality] | :: fetish |
| féticher {v} [Africa] | :: to enchant by magic; to cast a spell |
| féticher {v} [religion] | :: to practice fetishism |
| fétichisation {f} | :: fetishization |
| fétichiser {v} | :: to fetishize |
| fétichisme {m} [figuratively] | :: adoration of a false god |
| fétichisme {m} [religion] | :: fetishism |
| fétichisme {m} [sexuality] | :: fetishism; fetish |
| fétichiste {adj} | :: fetishistic |
| fétichiste {mf} | :: fetishist |
| fétide {adj} | :: fetid, foetid, foul |
| fétidité {f} | :: fetidness |
| fétidité {f} | :: stench |
| fœtoscopie {f} | :: fetoscopy / foetoscopy |
| fétu {m} [countable] | :: straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant) |
| fétu {m} [figurative] | :: straw (something proverbially worthless) |
| fœtus {m} | :: fetus |
| fuchsia {adj} | :: fuchsia |
| fuchsia {m} | :: fuchsia |
| fucker {v} [Quebec, vulgar] | :: to do something with difficulty |
| fucker {v} [Quebec, vulgar] | :: to fuck up, mess up, ruin |
| fucus {m} | :: fucus |
| fucus {m} | :: kelp |
| fuel {m} | :: heating oil |
| fugace {adj} | :: fleeting (brief, passing) |
| fugacement {adv} | :: fleetingly |
| fugacité {f} | :: transience, fugacity |
| fugitif {m} | :: Fugitive |
| fugitive {f} | :: feminine noun of fugitif; a female fugitive |
| fugitivement {adv} | :: fleetingly |
| fugue {f} [colloquial] | :: running away (from a place where one was staying) |
| fugue {f} [music] | :: fugue |
| fuguer {v} | :: to flee, especially to run away from home |
| fugueur {adj} | :: runaway |
| fugueur {m} | :: runaway |
| fuir {v} | :: to escape |
| fuir {v} | :: to flee |
| fuir {v} | :: to leak; to have a leak |
| fuite {f} | :: getaway; flight (e.g. from prison) |
| fuite {f} | :: leak; the act of leaking |
| fuite des cerveaux {f} | :: brain drain |
| fuiter {vi} [dialectal] | :: to leak information |
| fulani {m} | :: Fula, Fulani (language) |
| fulgurant {adj} | :: flashing, dazzling, full of lightning |
| fulgurant {adj} [in regards to the imagination or spirit] | :: striking |
| fulgurant {adj} [of pain] | :: intense, sharp |
| fulgurant {adj} | :: quick as a flash, fast as lightning |
| fulgurer {v} | :: to fulgurate |
| fuligineux {adj} | :: sooty, fuliginous |
| full {adj} [Québec] | :: full |
| full {adj} [Québec] | :: overflowing, packed, crowded |
| full {adv} [Québec] | :: very, really |
| full {m} [poker] | :: full house |
| fullerène {m} [chemistry] | :: fullerene |
| fulminer {v} | :: to fulminate |
| fumé {adj} | :: smoked |
| fumage {m} | :: smoking (of food etc) |
| fumaison {f} | :: smoking (of food etc) |
| fumana {m} | :: sunrose of genus Fumana |
| fumarique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: fumaric |
| fumée {f} | :: smoke |
| fumée {f} | :: spoor (of game animals) |
| fumée {f} | :: steam |
| fumer {vi} | :: to emit smoke |
| fumer {vi} | :: to steam |
| fumer {vit} | :: to smoke |
| fumer comme un pompier {v} [simile] | :: Be a heavy smoker; smoke like a chimney |
| fumerolle {f} | :: fumarole |
| fumerolle {f} | :: the gas and smoke from a fumarole |
| fumet {m} | :: aroma, odor (of meat etc.); bouquet (of wine) |
| fumet {m} [hunting] | :: scent |
| fumeterre {f} | :: fumitory (plant) |
| fumette {f} [slang] | :: toke (of cannabis cigarette) |
| fumeur {m} | :: smoker |
| fumeusement {adv} | :: smokily |
| fumeux {adj} | :: smoking |
| fumeux {adj} | :: smoky |
| fumeux {adj} | :: woolly, unclear |
| fumiciel {m} | :: vapourware |
| fumier {m} | :: manure, dung |
| fumier {m} [vulgar, slang] | :: bastard, shit |
| fumigateur {m} | :: fumigator |
| fumigène {m} [agriculture] | :: fumigator |
| fumigène {m} | :: smoke grenade, smoke device |
| fumiste {mf} | :: An unpleasant, untrustworthy person |
| fumiste {mf} | :: A person who installs fireplaces etc |
| fumisterie {f} | :: (Figuratively) A bad / unpleasant joke |
| fumisterie {f} | :: The installation of fireplaces etc |
| fumoir {m} | :: smoking room (room reserved for smokers) |
| fumoir {m} | :: smoking room (room used to smoke food) |
| fumure {f} | :: manuring, fertilizing (land) |
| fun {adj} [colloquial] | :: fun |
| funambule {f} | :: tightrope walker (acrobat who practices tightrope walking) |
| funambuler {v} | :: To walk the tightrope |
| funambulisme {m} | :: tightrope walking (acrobatic feat of walking on a tightrope) |
| funèbre {adj} | :: funereal |
| funèbrement {adv} | :: sombrely |
| funeste {adj} | :: baneful, disastrous (causing disaster) |
| funeste {adj} | :: fatal; deadly |
| funestement {adv} | :: disastrously |
| funestement {adv} | :: fatally |
| funiculaire {adj} | :: funicular |
| funiculaire {m} | :: funicular railway |
| funky {adj} [music] | :: funky |
| funéraille {f} [rare, archaic] | :: funeral |
| funérailles {fp} | :: funeral |
| funéraire {adj} | :: funerary; (attributive) funeral |
| funérarium {m} | :: crematorium |
| funérarium {m} | :: funeral parlour |
| fur {m} | :: only used in au fur et à mesure |
| furane {m} [organic compound] | :: furan |
| furanique {adj} | :: furan (attributive) |
| furanique {adj} | :: furanose (attributive) |
| furanéol {m} [organic compound] | :: furaneol |
| furet {m} | :: ferret |
| fureter {v} | :: to ferret (around, about); to rummage |
| fureteur {m} | :: ferreter |
| fureteur {m} [Internet, Quebec] | :: browser |
| fureteur {m} | :: snooper |
| fureteuse {f} | :: feminine noun of fureteur |
| fureur {f} | :: wrath (great anger) |
| furibard {adj} | :: very furious; livid |
| furibond {adj} | :: furious |
| furieusement {adv} | :: furiously |
| furieux {adj} | :: furious |
| furoncle {m} | :: boil, furuncle, carbuncle |
| furtif {adj} | :: furtive, stealthy |
| furtivement {adv} | :: furtively, stealthily, surreptitiously |
| furtivité {f} | :: stealth (attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy) |
| fusain {m} [art] | :: charcoal |
| fusain {m} | :: spindle-tree |
| fusée {f} [heraldiccharge] | :: fusil |
| fusée {f} | :: rocket (vehicle) |
| fuseau {m} | :: bobbin (lacemaking) |
| fuseau {m} | :: lune (geometry) |
| fuseau {m} | :: spindle |
| fuseau {m} | :: timezone |
| fuseau horaire {m} | :: time zone (range of longitudes where a common standard time is used) |
| fuselage {m} | :: fuselage |
| fuseler {v} | :: to give the shape of a spindle |
| fuser {v} | :: to ring out, sound out |
| fusible {m} | :: fuse (electrical component) |
| fusiforme {adj} | :: fusiform |
| fusil {m} | :: rifle, gun (often used by the French during the French and Indian War) |
| fusil {m} | :: steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil) |
| fusilier {m} | :: rifleman |
| fusillade {f} | :: fusillade |
| fusillade {f} [ice hockey] | :: penalty |
| fusillade {f} | :: shootout; shooting (of a firearm) |
| fusiller {v} | :: to shoot, to shoot down, to gun down (especially with a rifle, but also with other firearms) |
| fusion {f} [figuratively] | :: mix; mixture |
| fusion {f} | :: fusion (act of melting or liquefying something by heating it) |
| fusionnel {adj} | :: inseparable (said of a very close relationship between people) |
| fusionnement {m} | :: merger, fusion, incorporation |
| fusionner {v} | :: to fuse, to meld |
| fustiger {v} | :: to fustigate, to publicly criticize |
| futé {adj} | :: wily, cunning, crafty |
| fut {f} | :: alternative spelling of fût |
| futaie {f} | :: cluster of (tall) trees, tall forest |
| futaille {f} [rare] | :: barrel, cask |
| futal {m} [colloquial] | :: trousers, pants |
| futile {adj} | :: futile |
| futilement {adv} | :: futilely |
| futilité {f} | :: futility |
| Futuna {prop} | :: Futuna |
| futunien {adj} | :: Of or from Futuna |
| futur {adj} | :: future |
| futur {m} | :: future (what will happen) |
| futur {m} [grammar] | :: future, future tense |
| futurisme {m} [arts] | :: futurism |
| futuriste {adj} | :: futuristic (advanced so far beyond that which is current as to appear to be from the future) |
| futuriste {mf} | :: futurist |
| futurologue {mf} | :: futurologist |
| futur simple {m} | :: simple future (verb tense) |
| fuyant {adj} | :: fleeing (in the process of fleeing) |
| fuyard {adj} | :: fleeing |
| fuyard {m} | :: fleer, runaway |
| fuyard {m} [military] | :: deserter (someone who runs away from battle) |
| fuyarde {f} | :: feminine noun of fuyard |
| fève {f} | :: bean, generally |
| fève {f} | :: non-legume beans, as in coffee beans |
| fève {f} | :: strictly, the broad bean Vicia faba |
| fève {f} | :: the trinket in a king cake (galette des rois) – originally an actual broad bean, today often a plastic, metal or porcelain figurine |
| fèverole {f} | :: broad bean; horse bean |
| févier {m} | :: honey locust (tree of the genus Gleditsia) |
| février {m} | :: February |
