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| PA {initialism} | :: CV (aircraft carrier); initialism of porte-avions |
| pablisme {m} [politics] | :: Pabloism |
| pabliste {adj} [politics] | :: Pabloist |
| pabliste {mf} [politics] | :: Pabloist |
| PAC {f} | :: acronym of Politique agricole commune (Common Agricultural Policy) |
| PACA {prop} {f} | :: acronym of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| pacage {m} | :: grazing |
| pacage {m} | :: pasture |
| pacane {f} [Quebec, Louisiana] | :: pecan |
| pacanier {m} | :: pecan (tree) |
| pacha {m} | :: pasha |
| pachole {f} [Marseille slang] | :: cunt |
| pachto {m} | :: the Pashto language |
| pachyblépharose {f} | :: pachyblepharon |
| pachyderme {m} | :: pachyderm |
| pachyptile {adj} [ornithology, rare] | :: having thick feathers |
| Pachyptile {prop} {f} [zoology] | :: the genus Pachyptila, the pachyptiles |
| pacificateur {m} | :: pacifier (one who pacifies) |
| pacificateur {adj} | :: pacifying, pacificatory |
| pacification {f} | :: pacification |
| pacifier {v} | :: to pacify |
| pacifique {adj} | :: pacific |
| Pacifique {prop} {m} | :: Pacific |
| pacifiquement {adv} | :: peacefully |
| pacifisme {m} | :: pacifism |
| pacifiste {mf} | :: pacifist |
| pack {m} | :: pack (item of packaging) |
| pack {m} | :: pack ice |
| pack {m} [sports] | :: A rugby team |
| packaging {m} | :: packaging (material) |
| packfung {m} | :: paktong |
| pacotille {f} | :: junk (cheap, tacky articles) |
| PACS {m} | :: civil partnership |
| pacsage {m} | :: civil partnership |
| pacser {vi} | :: to enter into a civil partnership |
| pacson {m} [slang] | :: pack, packet |
| pacte {m} | :: pact, deal |
| pactiser {v} | :: to make a pact, make a deal |
| pactole {m} | :: fortune (large amount of money) |
| Pactole {prop} {m} | :: the Pactolus |
| paddock {m} | :: paddock |
| paddock {m} [slang] | :: pad (bed) |
| padine {f} | :: The brown alga peacock's tail (Padina pavonica) |
| padma {m} | :: pink lotus |
| padna {f} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, ] | :: friend, buddy |
| Padoue {prop} {f} | :: Padua (province) |
| Padoue {prop} {f} | :: Padua (town) |
| pædagogique {adj} | :: obsolete form of pédagogique |
| pædagogue {mf} | :: obsolete form of pédagogue |
| pæderastie {f} | :: obsolete form of pédérastie |
| pædiatrie {f} | :: obsolete form of pédiatrie |
| paélia {f} | :: alternative spelling of paella |
| paella {f} [countable and uncountable] | :: paella |
| paëlla {f} | :: alternative spelling of paella |
| paf {interj} | :: Onomatopoeia for the noise caused by a fall or a blow |
| paf {adj} | :: drunk |
| paf {m} [slang] | :: cock, dick |
| PAF {f} | :: border police |
| PAF {m} | :: the French television and radio scene |
| pagaie {f} | :: paddle (two-handed, single-bladed oar) |
| pagaïe {f} | :: alternative spelling of pagaille |
| pagaille {f} | :: muddle; mess |
| paganisme {m} | :: paganism (local religions practiced before the introduction of Christianity) |
| pagaye {f} | :: alternative spelling of pagaille |
| pagayer {v} | :: to paddle |
| page {f} | :: page (of a book, etc.) |
| page {f} | :: page, web page |
| page {m} | :: page, page boy |
| page d'accueil {f} | :: home page (of a Web site) |
| page web {f} | :: web page |
| pagination {f} | :: pagination |
| paginer {v} | :: to paginate |
| pagne {m} | :: loincloth |
| pagne {m} | :: grass skirt |
| pagne {m} | :: bed |
| pagode {f} [Buddhism, architecture] | :: pagoda |
| paie {f} | :: pay, salary |
| paiement {m} | :: payment |
| païen {adj} | :: pagan, heathen |
| païen {m} | :: pagan, heathen |
| paillard {adj} | :: bawdy, lewd |
| paillardement {adv} | :: bawdily |
| paillarder {v} | :: To fornicate |
| paillasse {f} | :: paillasse, straw mattress |
| paillasse {f} | :: laboratory desk |
| paillasse {m} | :: clown, buffoon |
| paillasson {m} | :: doormat |
| paille {f} | :: straw (dried grass) |
| paille {f} | :: (drinking) straw |
| paille {f} | :: flaw in a gem or metal |
| pailler {m} | :: straw house (a building to store straw) |
| pailler {m} | :: straw pile |
| pailler {v} | :: to cover with straw |
| pailleté {adj} | :: sequined |
| pailleter {v} | :: to decorate with sequins, glitter, spangles, or other sparkly material (paillettes); to bespangle |
| paillette {f} | :: sequin |
| pain {m} | :: bread |
| pain {m} | :: piece of bread |
| pain {m} | :: food |
| pain {m} | :: bread-and-butter needs, basic sustenance; breadwinner |
| pain {m} [colloquial] | :: punch (a hit with the fist) |
| pain {m} | :: a block (of ice, of salt, of soap …) with the shape and size of bread |
| pain {m} [slang] | :: (music) mistake during a performance (false note, forgot an intro, wrong solo, …) |
| pain à cacheter {m} | :: wafer (of sealing wax etc.) |
| pain au chocolat {m} | :: A French snack consisting of a pastry, normally similar to a croissant, with chocolate inside |
| pain blanc {m} | :: white bread |
| pain crestou {m} | :: A type of granary bread |
| pain de campagne {m} | :: A large round loaf of bread |
| pain de mie {m} | :: pain de mie (A type of sandwich loaf bread of French origin) |
| pain d'épice {m} | :: A form of French gingerbread |
| pain grillé {m} | :: toast (toasted bread) |
| pain perdu {m} | :: French toast |
| paintball {m} | :: paintball |
| pair {adj} [of a number] | :: even |
| pair {m} | :: A peer, high nobleman/vassal (as in peer of the realm) |
| paire {f} | :: a pair; a couple |
| pairement {adv} | :: evenly |
| paire minimale {f} [phonology] | :: minimal pair (pair of words) |
| paire torsadée {f} | :: twisted pair |
| pairie {f} | :: peerage |
| paisablement {adv} | :: peacefully; quietly |
| paiser {v} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, ] | :: to hush |
| paisible {adj} | :: peaceful |
| paisiblement {adv} | :: peacefully |
| paitre {v} | :: alternative spelling of paître |
| paître {vi} | :: to graze |
| paix {f} | :: peace |
| paix-toi la djeule {interj} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, colloquial] | :: shut up! |
| pajot {m} [slang] | :: bed, fleabag, pit |
| Paki {m} [ethnic slur] | :: Paki (offensive term for a Pakistani) |
| Pakistan {prop} {m} | :: Pakistan |
| pakistanais {adj} | :: Pakistani |
| Pakistanais {m} | :: Pakistani, Paki (someone from Pakistan) |
| Pakistanaise {f} | :: feminine noun of Pakistanais |
| pal {m} | :: stake |
| pal {m} | :: pole |
| pal {m} [heraldiccharge] | :: pale |
| palabre {m} | :: convoluted discussion |
| palabre {m} [in the plural] | :: palaver |
| palabrer {vi} | :: to endlessly argue |
| palabres {f} | :: palaver |
| palace {m} | :: luxury hotel |
| paladin {m} | :: paladin |
| palæographie {f} | :: obsolete form of paléographie |
| palæographique {adj} | :: obsolete form of paléographique |
| palæologie {f} | :: obsolete form of paléologie (paleology) |
| Palæstine {prop} {f} | :: obsolete form of Palestine |
| palafitte {m} | :: pile (wooden structure used to support prehistoric dwellings) |
| palafittique {adj} | :: pile-dwelling (of prehistoric settlements) |
| palais {m} | :: palace |
| palais {m} | :: courthouse (Palais de justice) |
| palais {m} | :: palate; up part inside the mouth |
| palais dur {m} [anatomy] | :: hard palate |
| palais mou {m} [anatomy] | :: soft palate |
| palan {m} | :: hoist |
| palangre {f} | :: longline (fishing line) |
| palangrer {v} | :: to long-line (fish with a longline) |
| palangrier {adj} [attributive] | :: longline fishing |
| palangrier {m} | :: longline fishing boat |
| palanquin {m} | :: palanquin |
| Palaos {prop} {fp} | :: Palau |
| palatal {adj} [anatomy, phonetics] | :: palatal |
| palatalisation {f} [phonetics, phonology] | :: palatalization |
| palatial {adj} | :: palatial |
| palatin {adj} | :: palatine |
| palatine {f} [historical] | :: tippet, shoulder cape |
| palatoalvéolaire {adj} | :: palatoalveolar |
| pale {f} | :: blade (of a propeller etc) |
| pale {f} | :: vane (of a windmill etc) |
| pâle {adj} | :: pale (light in color) |
| pâle {adj} | :: pale (lacking brightness) |
| pâle {adj} | :: pale (dull) |
| paléacé {adj} | :: paleaceous |
| palefrenier {m} | :: ostler, groom |
| palefroi {m} | :: palfrey |
| pâlement {adv} | :: palely, pallidly |
| paléo- {prefix} | :: paleo- |
| paléoanthropologie {f} | :: paleanthropology |
| paléoanthropologique {adj} | :: paleoanthropological |
| paléoanthropologue {mf} | :: paleoanthropologist (specialist in paleoanthropology) |
| paléoastronomie {f} [astronomy] | :: paleoastronomy |
| paléoauxologique {adj} | :: paleoauxologic |
| paléobiochimie {f} [biochemistry] | :: paleobiochemistry |
| paléobotanique {f} [botany] | :: paleobotany |
| paléobotanique {adj} | :: paleobotanical |
| Paléocène {prop} {m} | :: Paleocene period |
| paléochrétien {adj} | :: paleochristian |
| paléoclimat {m} | :: paleoclimate |
| paléoclimatique {adj} | :: paleoclimatic |
| paléoclimatologie {f} | :: paleoclimatology |
| paléocoprologie {f} | :: paleocoprology |
| paléocortex {m} [anatomy] | :: paleocortex |
| paléoécologie {f} | :: paleoecology |
| paléoenvironnement {m} | :: paleoenvironment |
| paléoethnographique {adj} | :: paleoethnographic |
| Paléogène {prop} {m} | :: Paleogene period |
| paléogéographie {f} | :: paleogeography |
| paléogéographique {adj} | :: paleogeographic |
| paléographe {mf} | :: paleographer |
| paléographie {f} | :: paleography |
| paléographique {adj} | :: Paleographic; palaeographical; palaeographic; paleographical |
| paléographiquement {adv} | :: paleographically |
| paléoichnologie {f} | :: paleoichnology |
| paléolithique {m} | :: Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) |
| Paléolithique {prop} {f} [history] | :: The Paleolithic or Old Stone Age |
| paléologie {f} | :: paleology |
| paléomagnétisme {m} | :: paleomagnetism |
| paléoneurologie {f} | :: paleoneurology |
| paléontologie {f} | :: paleontology (study of prehistoric forms of life) |
| paléontologique {adj} | :: paleontological |
| paléontologiquement {adv} | :: paleontologically |
| paléontologue {mf} | :: paleontologist |
| paléopallium {m} | :: paleopallium |
| paléopathologie {f} | :: paleopathology |
| paléopathologique {adj} | :: paleopathological |
| paléoprotérozoïque {adj} | :: Paleoproterozoic |
| Paléoprotérozoïque {m} | :: Paleoproterozoic |
| paléosismologie {f} | :: paleoseismology |
| paléotectonique {adj} [geology] | :: paleotectonic |
| paléotestamentaire {adj} | :: vetero-testamentary, Old Testament (attributive) |
| paléozoïque {adj} | :: Paleozoic |
| paléozoologie {f} | :: paleozoology |
| Palerme {prop} {m} | :: Palermo |
| palermitain {adj} | :: of or from Palermo |
| Palermitain {m} | :: someone of or from Palermo |
| Palestine {prop} {f} | :: Palestine |
| Palestine {f} [printing, dated] | :: double pica (large size of type standardized as 24 points) |
| palestinien {adj} | :: Palestinian |
| Palestinien {m} | :: Palestinian |
| Palestinienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Palestinien |
| palestre {f} [historical] | :: palestra |
| palet {m} | :: hockey puck |
| palethnologie {f} | :: paleoethnology |
| palethnologique {adj} | :: paleoethnological |
| palethnologiquement {adv} | :: paleoethnologically |
| paletot {m} | :: jacket |
| palette {f} | :: palette |
| palétuvier {m} | :: mangrove, mangle |
| pâleur {f} | :: pallor; paleness |
| palier {m} [mechanics] | :: bearing |
| palier {m} | :: landing (on stairs) |
| palier {m} | :: flat area; the flat, the level |
| palier {m} [figuratively] | :: stage |
| palier {adj} | :: landing (attributive) |
| palimpseste {m} | :: palimpsest |
| palindrome {m} | :: palindrome |
| palingénésique {adj} | :: palingenesic |
| palinodie {f} | :: palinode |
| palinspastique {adj} [geology] | :: palinspastic |
| pâlir {v} | :: to pale; to fade (lose color) |
| pâlir {v} | :: to fade (lose glory or power) |
| palissade {f} | :: fence, palisade |
| palissade {f} | :: stockade |
| palissadique {adj} [botany] | :: palisadic |
| palissandre {m} | :: rosewood |
| palladien {adj} | :: Palladian |
| palladique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: palladic |
| palladium {m} | :: palladium |
| palladure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: palladide |
| Pallas {prop} [Greek mythology] | :: Pallas |
| Pallas {prop} [astronomy] | :: Pallas, the second asteroid discovered |
| pallénis {m} | :: Any plant of the genus Pallenis |
| palliatif {adj} | :: palliative |
| pallide {adj} | :: pallid |
| pallidement {adv} | :: pallidly |
| pallier {vt} | :: to conceal |
| pallier {vt} | :: to palliate (to relieve the symptoms of) |
| pallisandre {m} | :: pallisander |
| palmaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: palmar |
| palmarès {m} | :: prize list; list of winners |
| palmarès {m} | :: record of achievements |
| palme {f} [leaf of the palm tree] | :: palm leaf |
| palme {f} [prize] | :: palm |
| palme {f} | :: palm tree |
| palme {f} [diving equipment] | :: flipper; fin; swim fin |
| palmé {adj} [of feet] | :: webbed |
| palmé {adj} [botany] | :: palmate |
| palmeraie {f} | :: palm grove |
| palmier {m} | :: palm, palm tree |
| palmier {m} | :: palmier (biscuit) |
| palmier à huile {m} | :: oil palm |
| palmier des Everglades {m} | :: Everglades palm, Acoelorraphe wrightii |
| palmine {f} [organic compound] | :: palmin |
| palmipède {m} | :: palmiped |
| palmiste {m} | :: oil palm (or several other related palm trees) |
| palmitique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: palmitic |
| palmitoléique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: palmitoleic |
| Palmyre {prop} | :: Palmyra |
| palmyrène {adj} | :: Palmyrene |
| Palmyrène {mf} | :: Palmyrene (person) |
| Palmyrène {prop} {f} | :: Palmyrene (country) |
| palmyrénien {adj} | :: Of, from or relating to Palmyrene (country) |
| Palmyrénienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Palmyrénien |
| palois {adj} | :: Of or from Pau |
| Palois {m} | :: Native or inhabitant of Pau |
| Paloise {f} | :: feminine singular of Palois |
| palombe {f} | :: wood pigeon |
| pâlot {adj} | :: pale, peaky |
| palourde {f} | :: clam |
| palpable {adj} | :: palpable |
| palpablement {adv} | :: palpably |
| palpation {f} | :: palpation |
| palpébral {adj} [anatomy] | :: palpebral |
| palper {v} | :: to palpate |
| palpitant {adj} | :: pulsating, palpitating |
| palpitant {adj} | :: thrilling, exciting |
| palpiter {v} | :: to palpitate |
| palpiter {v} [of a heart] | :: to beat, flutter, to race, pulsate |
| palpiter {v} | :: to jump around, jump about |
| palse {m} [geology] | :: palsa |
| paltoquet {m} [dated] | :: A rude or uncouth person |
| paltoquet {m} | :: A pretentious person |
| palu {m} [colloquial] | :: malaria |
| palucher {v} [slang] | :: to masturbate |
| paludéen {adj} | :: malarial; [attributive] malaria |
| paludique {adj} | :: malarial |
| paludisme {m} | :: malaria (disease) |
| palynologie {f} | :: palynology (study of spores, pollen etc.) |
| palynologique {adj} | :: palynological |
| palytoxine {f} [organic chemistry] | :: palytoxin |
| pâmer {vr} [literary, dated] | :: to swoon |
| pâmer {vr} [colloquial] | :: to be in raptures (devant over something) |
| pâmer {vr} [colloquial] | :: to be overcome (de with) |
| Pamir {prop} {m} | :: Pamir (mountain range in Central Asia) |
| pâmoison {f} | :: swoon |
| pamphlet {m} | :: lampoon (written attack) |
| pamphlet {m} [Quebec or dated] | :: pamphlet (small booklet) |
| pamphlétaire {m} | :: pamphleteer |
| pamphlétaire {m} | :: lampooner |
| Pamphylie {prop} | :: Pamphylia |
| pampille {f} | :: pendant |
| pamplemousse {m} [botany, France, Canada] | :: pomelo |
| pamplemousse {m} | :: grapefruit |
| pamplemoussier {m} [botanic] | :: grapefruit tree (Citrus maxima) from the Rutaceae family |
| pamplemoussier {adj} [attributive] | :: grapefruit |
| pampre {m} [literary] | :: vine branch |
| pan {m} | :: piece, part |
| pan {m} | :: side, face |
| pan {m} | :: flap, lap (of coat) |
| pan {m} | :: patch, area, section, sector |
| pan {interj} | :: bang! (sound of a gun) |
| pan {interj} | :: bam! |
| panacée {f} | :: panacea, cure-all |
| panachage {m} | :: blend, mix, mixture |
| panache {m} | :: panache (all senses) |
| panache {m} | :: (Canada) the bulk of antlers of deer and moose |
| panaché {m} | :: shandy (mix of beer and lemonade) |
| panaché {m} | :: mixture |
| panaché {adj} | :: mixed, variegated |
| panache éruptif {m} | :: eruption column |
| panacher {v} | :: to add a panache |
| panacher {v} | :: to mix colours (as in a panache) |
| panacher {v} | :: to mix |
| panache volcanique {m} | :: eruption column |
| panachure {f} | :: variegation, mottle; marking, colouring |
| panachure {f} | :: white spot, white patch (on leaf, animal's skin etc.) |
| panade {f} | :: A soup boiled in water from bread, butter, sometimes also egg yolk and milk |
| panade {f} | :: A paste, typically made of milk and bread |
| panade {f} [figuratively] | :: A state or experience of misery, poverty |
| panafricain {adj} | :: Pan-African |
| panafricanisme {m} | :: Pan-Africanism |
| panais {m} | :: parsnip |
| Panamá {prop} {m} | :: Panama (country) |
| Paname {prop} [slang] | :: Paris |
| panaméen {n} | :: Panamanian |
| Panaméen {m} | :: Panamanian |
| Panaméenne {f} | :: feminine singular of Panaméen |
| panaméricain {adj} | :: Pan-American |
| panaméricanisme {m} | :: Pan-Americanism |
| panamien {adj} | :: Panamanian |
| panarabe {adj} | :: pan-Arab |
| panarabisme {m} | :: pan-Arabism |
| panaris {m} [pathology] | :: whitlow, paronychia |
| panca {m} | :: punkah, a type of fan consisting in a screen suspended by the ceiling, as traditionally used in tropical colonies, notably the Indies |
| panca {m} | :: punkahwallah, a servant (typically a boy) who operates it manually |
| pancarte {f} | :: sign (with a message on, carried during a protest) |
| Pañchatantra {prop} {m} | :: Panchatantra (a collection of Sanskrit and Pali animal fables in verse and prose) |
| panchronique {adj} | :: panchronic |
| pancrace {m} | :: pankration (Ancient Greek martial art) |
| pancréas {m} [anatomy] | :: the pancreas |
| pancréatine {f} [biochemistry] | :: pancreatin |
| pancréatique {adj} | :: pancreatic |
| pancréatiquement {adv} | :: pancreatically |
| panda {m} | :: panda |
| pandanus {m} | :: pandanus |
| pandeiro {m} | :: Pandeiro |
| pandéisme {m} | :: pandeism |
| pandéistique {adj} | :: pandeistic |
| pandémie {f} | :: pandemic |
| pandémique {adj} | :: Pandemic |
| pandémonium {m} [obsolete] | :: The imaginary capital of Hell (often with a capital letter) |
| pandémonium {m} | :: A place where chaos and lawlessness abound |
| pandémonium {m} | :: A reunion of lawless people |
| pandémonium {m} | :: A noisy, chaotic place |
| Pandore {prop} {f} [Greek mythology] | :: Pandora |
| pané {adj} | :: breaded (covered in breadcrumbs) |
| panégyrique {m} | :: panegyric, eulogy |
| panégyriste {m} | :: panegyrist |
| panel {m} | :: panel (group of people) |
| panenthéisme {f} | :: panentheism |
| panenthéiste {adj} | :: panentheistic |
| panenthéiste {mf} | :: panentheist (person who believes in panentheism) |
| paner {v} | :: to bread (coat with bread or breadcrumbs) |
| Panet {prop} | :: surname |
| paneterie {f} | :: pantry |
| panetier {m} | :: pantryman |
| panetière {f} | :: feminine singular of panetier |
| paneuropéen {adj} | :: Pan-European |
| pangamique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pangamic |
| Pangée {prop} {f} | :: Pangaea (supercontinent prior to Triassic) |
| Pangée {prop} {f} | :: Pangaion Hills |
| pangéen {adj} | :: Pangaean |
| pangermanisme {m} | :: Pan-Germanism |
| pangermaniste {adj} | :: Pan-Germanist |
| pangramme {m} | :: pangram (a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet) |
| panhellénique {adj} | :: Panhellenic |
| panic {m} [botany] | :: Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass |
| panicault {m} | :: alt form panicaut |
| panicaut {m} | :: eryngo, sea holly (of genus Eryngium) |
| panier {m} | :: basket |
| panier {m} | :: goal scored in basketball |
| panier {m} | :: basketball hoop |
| panier {m} | :: In an online store, the shopping basket where a shopper reserves or collects items for purchase |
| panier de crabes {m} [idiomatic] | :: A rat race (literally, a basket of crabs); any organization where people metaphorically claw at one another to come out on top |
| panier-entonnoir {m} [aeronautics] | :: drogue |
| panifiable {adj} | :: breadmaking (attributive) |
| panini {m} | :: panini |
| panique {adj} | :: panicked |
| panique {f} | :: panic |
| paniquer {vit} | :: To panic |
| panislamisme {m} [Islam] | :: Panislamism |
| panka {m} | :: punkah |
| panne {f} | :: plush velvet |
| panne {f} | :: breakdown (state of no longer functioning) |
| panne {f} | :: purlin |
| panneau {m} | :: sign; signpost |
| panneau de signalisation {m} | :: road sign, traffic sign |
| panneau solaire {m} | :: solar panel (array of connected solar cells) |
| panne sèche {f} [of a vehicle] | :: state of having run out of fuel |
| pannicule {m} | :: the subcutaneous membrane where lipids accumulate |
| panonceau {m} | :: plaque (small sign) |
| panonceau {m} | :: escutcheon |
| panoplie {f} | :: panoply |
| panoplie {f} | :: outfit, costume (clothes for dressing up) |
| panoplie {f} | :: armoury |
| panoplie {f} | :: range (collection of things) |
| panoptique {adj} | :: panoptic |
| panoptique {m} | :: panopticon |
| panorama {m} | :: panorama |
| panoramique {adj} | :: panoramic |
| panosse {f} [Switzerland, Aosta Valley, Savoie, eastern France] | :: floorcloth |
| panosse {f} [military jargon] | :: the Swiss flag |
| panosse {f} [figuratively] | :: woman of ill repute |
| panpsychisme {m} [philosophy] | :: panpsychism |
| panrusse {adj} | :: pan-Russian |
| pansage {m} | :: grooming (of a horse etc) |
| panse {f} | :: belly |
| pansement {m} | :: bandage, dressing |
| pansement sur une jambe de bois {m} | :: synonym of cataplasme sur une jambe de bois |
| panser {v} [medicine] | :: to dress (a wound etc.); to bandage |
| panser {v} [equestrian] | :: to groom |
| pansexualité {f} | :: pansexuality |
| panslave {adj} | :: related to Pan-Slavism; Panslavic |
| panslavisme {m} | :: Pan-Slavism |
| panspermie {f} | :: panspermia |
| pansu {adj} | :: potbellied, paunchy |
| pantachie {f} [rare, statistics] | :: density |
| pantachique {adj} [rare, statistics] | :: dense |
| pantacle {m} | :: A rare alternate spelling of pentacle |
| pantacourt {m} | :: capri pants, capris (casual pants for women) |
| pantagruélique {adj} | :: pantagruelian |
| pantagruélisme {m} | :: Pantagruelism |
| pantagruéliste {adj} | :: Pantagruelist |
| pantagruéliste {mf} | :: Pantagruelist |
| pantalon {m} | :: trousers [UK], pants [US] |
| pantalon {m} [dated] | :: knickers |
| pantalon clown {m} | :: alternate form of pantalon de clown |
| pantalon de clown {m} [Quebec politics] | :: Camo pants (pants with patterns typical of military camouflage) of a random assortment of colours, worn as a protest against government and contract terms, by uniformed employees, in violation of uniform dress codes |
| pantalon de clown {m} | :: clown pants |
| pantalonnade {f} | :: slapstick |
| pantalonnade {f} | :: farce |
| pantelant {adj} | :: panting, gasping (for breath) |
| panthéisme {m} | :: pantheism |
| panthéiste {adj} | :: pantheistic |
| panthéiste {mf} | :: pantheist |
| panthénol {m} [organic compound] | :: panthenol |
| panthéon {m} | :: pantheon |
| panthère {f} | :: panther |
| pantin {m} | :: puppet |
| pantogamie {n} | :: pantogamy |
| pantographe {m} | :: pantograph (mechanical drawing aid) |
| pantographe {m} | :: pantograph (rail transport: device for collecting electrical current) |
| pantographique {adj} | :: pantographic |
| pantographiquement {adv} | :: pantographically |
| pantois {adj} | :: gobsmacked, stunned, flabbergasted |
| pantoisement {adv} | :: flabbergastedly |
| pantone {f} | :: A (commercial) range of colours |
| pantothénique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pantothenic |
| pantouflage {m} | :: The phenomenon of civil servants and politicians moving over to prominent private sector jobs |
| pantouflard {adj} [colloquial] | :: stay-at-home |
| pantouflard {m} [colloquial] | :: couch potato, homebody |
| pantouflard {m} [historical] | :: A member of the non-combat "home guard" formed of older men during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871) |
| pantoufle {f} | :: slipper, house slipper (footwear) |
| pantoute {adv} [Quebec] | :: at all; used to make a negative statement more emphatic |
| panty {m} | :: panty girdle |
| panure {f} | :: breadcrumb |
| Paola {prop} | :: given name borrowed from Italian |
| paon {m} | :: peacock |
| Paon {prop} {m} [astronomy] | :: Pavo |
| paon du jour {m} | :: European peacock (butterfly) |
| paonne {f} | :: feminine singular of paon |
| paonneau {m} | :: young peacock |
| papa {m} [childish] | :: papa, a child's father; also as form of address: dad, daddy |
| papa {m} | :: pops, any man of roughly fatherly age and appearance |
| papable {m} | :: A papabile |
| papable {adj} | :: papabile |
| papa-gâteau {f} [figuratively] | :: doting father, soft touch with one's kids |
| papal {adj} | :: papal |
| papamobile {f} | :: Popemobile (any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope) |
| paparazzi {m} | :: A paparazzo |
| papauté {f} | :: papacy |
| papavéracé {adj} | :: papaveraceous |
| papaye {f} | :: papaya (fruit) |
| papayer {m} | :: papaya tree |
| pape {m} | :: Pope |
| papelard {adj} | :: hypocritical |
| papelardement {adv} | :: hypocritically |
| paperasse {f} [pejorative] | :: paperwork, bumf |
| paperasserie {f} | :: red tape |
| papeterie {f} | :: papermaking |
| papeterie {f} | :: papermaker |
| papeterie {f} | :: papeterie |
| papetier {m} | :: papermaker |
| papetier {m} | :: stationer |
| papetier {adj} | :: papermaking (attributive) |
| papetier {adj} | :: stationery (attributive) |
| Paphos {prop} | :: Paphos (town in Cyprus) |
| papi {m} [usually childish] | :: grandad, grandfather |
| papiamento {m} | :: the Papiamento language |
| papier {m} | :: paper (A material used for writing or printing on, made from cellulose pulp rolled into thin sheets) |
| papier {m} | :: paper (official documents) |
| papier à mouches {m} | :: flypaper |
| papier carbone {m} | :: carbon paper (sheet of paper used to make carbon copies) |
| papier collant {m} | :: sticky tape, adhesive tape, sellotape, Scotch tape |
| papier colle-mouches {m} | :: flypaper |
| papier de verre {m} | :: sandpaper |
| papier filtre {m} | :: filter paper |
| papier mâché {m} | :: papier-mâché (paper mixed with glue used to create sculptures) |
| papier peint {m} | :: wallpaper (decorative paper for walls) |
| papier terrier {m} [historical] | :: terrier (property register) |
| papier toilette {m} [Europe] | :: toilet paper |
| papier tue-mouches {m} | :: flypaper |
| papilionacé {adj} | :: papilionaceous |
| papillaire {adj} | :: papillary |
| papille {f} | :: papilla |
| papille {f} [colloquial] | :: tastebud |
| papillon {m} | :: butterfly |
| papillon {m} | :: someone brilliant, versatile and inconstant |
| papillon {m} | :: something roughly in the shape of a butterfly |
| papillon {m} | :: knot |
| papillon {m} | :: nut |
| papillon {m} [swimming] | :: butterfly stroke |
| papillon {m} | :: leaflet |
| papillon de nuit {m} | :: moth |
| papillonner {vi} | :: to flit [from one to another] |
| papillotage {m} | :: blinking (of the eyes) |
| papillotage {m} | :: blurring (of the eyes caused by a brilliant image) |
| papillote {f} | :: Wrapper or packet for food during cooking, trapping steam to provide a most cooking or streaming environment, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper |
| papillote {f} | :: Meal cooked in a packet, envelope, or pouch, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper |
| papillote {f} [hair styling] | :: a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl |
| papillote {f} | :: curly hair obtained with this method; ringlets |
| papillote {f} | :: [in particular] curly sideburns, payot |
| papillote {f} | :: Vividly coloured paper wrap for crackers and other sweets |
| papillote {f} | :: sweet wrapped with a papillote |
| papilloter {vi} | :: to blink |
| papilloter {vi} | :: to flutter |
| papilloter {vi} | :: to flicker |
| papinade {f} [football] | :: A spectacular type of volley, struck at strange angles, characteristic of Jean-Pierre Papin |
| papisme {m} | :: papism, papistry |
| papiste {adj} | :: papist, papistic |
| papiste {mf} | :: papist |
| papite {f} [organic compound] | :: acrolein (when used as a poison gas in the First World War) |
| papotage {m} | :: chattering, chitchat, small talk |
| papoter {vi} | :: to chat, chatter |
| papou {adj} | :: Papuan |
| Papou {m} | :: Papuan, someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea |
| Papouasie {prop} {f} | :: Papua (island) |
| Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée {prop} {f} | :: Papua New Guinea |
| Papoue {f} | :: feminine noun of Papou |
| papouille {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: tickling |
| paprika {m} | :: paprika (powder used as a spice) |
| papy {m} | :: grandpa |
| papy boom {m} | :: The large increase in the number of retired people who were born in the baby boom generation |
| papy-boomer {m} | :: A retired person who was born during the baby boom |
| papyracé {adj} | :: papyraceous |
| papyrus {m} | :: papyrus |
| pâque {f} | :: Passover, Easter |
| Pâque {prop} {f} | :: Passover (Jewish holiday) |
| Pâque {prop} {f} | :: Paschal Lamb |
| Pâque {prop} {f} | :: Passover (Christian holiday) |
| paquebot {m} | :: ship, liner |
| paquer {vt} | :: to pack (fish) in a box for transportation |
| pâquerette {f} | :: daisy |
| Pâques {prop} {fp} | :: Easter |
| paquet {m} | :: packet |
| paquet {m} | :: pack (of cards) |
| paquet {m} | :: parcel |
| paquet {m} | :: bundle (of clothes) |
| paquet {m} [rugby] | :: pack |
| paquet {m} | :: wad (of cash) |
| Paquet {prop} | :: surname |
| paquetage {m} | :: kit |
| paquetage {m} | :: package |
| paqueté {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: drunk, wasted |
| Paquette {prop} | :: surname |
| par- {prefix} | :: per- (all meanings) |
| par {prep} | :: through |
| par {prep} | :: by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction)) |
| par {prep} | :: over (used to express direction) |
| par {prep} | :: from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement) |
| par {prep} | :: around, round (inside of) |
| par {prep} | :: on (situated on, used in certain phrases) |
| par {prep} | :: on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs) |
| par {prep} | :: in |
| par {prep} | :: per, a, an |
| par {prep} | :: out of (used to describe the reason for something) |
| par {prep} | :: for |
| par {m} [golf] | :: par |
| para- {prefix} | :: para- (all senses) |
| para- {prefix} | :: para- |
| para-alpin {m} | :: para-alpine; ellipsis of ski para-alpin |
| para-athlète {mf} | :: para-athlete |
| parabancaire {adj} | :: banking-related |
| parabanique {adj} | :: parabanic |
| parabase {f} | :: parabasis |
| parabellum {m} | :: parabellum (all senses) |
| parabène {m} | :: paraben |
| para biathlon {m} | :: alternate form of parabiathlon |
| para-biathlon {m} | :: alternate form of parabiathlon |
| parabiathlon {m} | :: parabiathlon |
| parable {adj} | :: preventable (able to be or fit to be prevented) |
| parabole {f} [mathematics, physics] | :: parabola |
| parabole {f} | :: dish (antenna) |
| parabole {f} [literature] | :: parable |
| paraboler {v} | :: To move in a parabolic trajectory |
| paraboler {v} | :: To speak in parables |
| parabolicité {f} | :: parabolicity |
| parabolique {adj} | :: parabolic |
| paraboliquement {adv} | :: parabolically |
| paraboliser {v} | :: To parabolize |
| paraboloïdal {adj} | :: paraboloidal |
| paraboloïde {m} | :: paraboloid |
| paraboréen {adj} | :: synonym of hyperboréen |
| parabuée {adj} | :: anti-condensation, antimisting |
| Paracelse {prop} {m} | :: Paracelsus |
| paracelsien {adj} | :: Paracelsian |
| paracelsisme {m} | :: Paracelsism |
| paracelsiste {mf} | :: Paracelsist |
| paracentèse {f} [surgery] | :: paracentesis |
| paracentrique {adj} | :: paracentric |
| paracerque {m} | :: paracercus |
| paracétamol {m} | :: paracetamol, acetaminophen |
| parachevable {adj} | :: completable |
| parachevé {adj} | :: completed, finalized |
| parachèvement {m} | :: finalization |
| parachèvement {m} | :: completion |
| parachèvement {m} | :: perfection |
| parachever {vt} | :: to complete, finalize, perfect |
| parachi {m} | :: Parachi |
| parachronisme {m} | :: parachronism |
| parachutable {adj} | :: parachutable |
| parachutage {m} | :: parachuting |
| parachute {m} | :: parachute |
| parachuter {v} | :: to parachute |
| parachuter un Sénégalais {v} [very, colloquial] | :: to take a dump, to drop a deuce |
| parachutisme {m} | :: parachuting, skydiving |
| parachutiste {mf} | :: parachutist |
| paraclèse {f} [philosophy, theology] | :: paraclesis, paraklesis |
| paraclet {m} [Christianity, theology] | :: paraclete (an advocate, especially the Holy Spirit) |
| paraclétique {adj} | :: paracletic |
| paraclimacique {adj} [ecology] | :: paraclimactic |
| paraclimax {m} [ecology] | :: paraclimax |
| paraclinique {adj} | :: paraclinical |
| paracmastique {adj} | :: paracmastic |
| paracolois {adj} | :: Of or from fr |
| Paracolois {m} | :: A native or inhabitant of fr |
| Paracoloise {f} | :: feminine singular of Paracolois |
| paracompacité {f} [topology] | :: paracompactness |
| paracompact {adj} [topology] | :: paracompact |
| paraconide {m} | :: paraconid |
| paracorole {f} [botany] | :: paracorolla |
| paracorolle {f} [botany] | :: paracorolla |
| par à-coups {adv} | :: in fits and starts |
| paracousie {f} | :: paracusis |
| par acquit de conscience {adv} | :: just in case, just to be on the safe side, for (some)one's peace of mind, just to set (some)one's mind at rest, out of principle |
| paracuta {m} | :: barracuda |
| paracyanogène {m} | :: paracyanogen |
| paracyésie {f} [pathology] | :: paracyesis, ectopic pregnancy |
| paradactyle {m} [ornithology] | :: paradactyl |
| parader {v} | :: flaunt, strut, show off (to display with ostentation) |
| paradeur {m} | :: braggart |
| paradeur {m} | :: showoff |
| paradeuse {f} | :: feminine singular of paradeur |
| paradichlorobenzène {m} [organic compound] | :: paradichlorobenzene |
| paradigmatique {adj} | :: paradigmatic |
| paradigmatisme {m} [philosophy] | :: paradigmaticism |
| paradigme {m} | :: paradigm (model or example) |
| paradis {m} | :: paradise (somewhere perfect) |
| paradis {m} [religion] | :: Heaven |
| paradis {m} | :: gods (The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium) |
| Paradis {prop} {m} | :: Paradise (Heaven) |
| Paradis {prop} {m} | :: surname |
| paradis fiscal {m} | :: tax haven (country that levies low taxes on foreign businesses) |
| paradisiaque {adj} | :: paradisiacal |
| paradisiaque {adj} | :: heavenly |
| paradisier {m} | :: bird of paradise |
| Paradou {prop} | :: A small town in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| paradounais {adj} | :: Of or from Paradou |
| Paradounais {m} | :: A native or inhabitant of Paradou |
| Paradounaise {f} | :: feminine singular of Paradounais |
| paradoxal {adj} | :: paradoxical |
| paradoxalement {adv} | :: paradoxically |
| paradoxe {m} | :: paradox |
| paradoxer {v} | :: To create paradoxes |
| paraedrite {m} [mineral] | :: synonym of rutile |
| parænese {f} | :: obsolete form of parénèse |
| parænetique {adj} | :: obsolete form of parénétique |
| paraétatique {adj} | :: parastatal |
| parafe {m} | :: alternative form of paraphe |
| parafer {vt} | :: alternative form of parapher |
| paraffinage {m} | :: paraffining |
| paraffiné {adj} | :: waxed |
| paraffiner {v} | :: To paraffin |
| paraffinique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: paraffinic, aliphatic |
| parafinique {adj} | :: alternative form of paraffinique |
| parafiscal {adj} [of taxation] | :: indirect |
| parafiscal {adj} [economics] | :: parafiscal |
| parafiscalité {f} | :: indirect taxation |
| paraformaldéhyde {m} [organic compound] | :: paraformaldehyde |
| parafoudre {m} | :: lightning conductor |
| paragangliome {f} [pathology] | :: paraganglioma |
| parage {m} | :: parage (social rank) |
| parage {m} [plural only] | :: environs, surroundings |
| paragenèse {f} [geology] | :: paragenesis |
| paragénèse {f} | :: alternative form of paragenèse |
| parageustie {f} | :: parageusia |
| paraglosse {f} | :: paraglossa |
| paragogique {adj} | :: paragogic |
| paragouvernemental {adj} | :: paragovernmental |
| paragrammatisme {m} | :: synonym of allitération |
| paragraphe {m} | :: paragraph |
| paragrêle {m} | :: A shelter to protect crops etc from hail |
| Paraguay {prop} {m} | :: Paraguay |
| paraguayen {adj} | :: Paraguayan |
| Paraguayen {m} | :: Paraguayan |
| Paraguayenne {f} | :: feminine noun of Paraguayen |
| para hockey {m} | :: alternate form of para-hockey |
| para-hockey {m} | :: parahockey |
| para-hockey {m} | :: ellipsis of para-hockey sur glace |
| para-hockey {m} | :: synonym of hockey sur luge |
| parahockey {m} | :: alternate form of para-hockey |
| para hockey sur glace {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-hockey sur glace |
| para-hockey sur glace {m} | :: para ice hockey |
| para-hockey sur glace {m} | :: synonym of hockey sur luge |
| parahockey sur glace {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-hockey sur glace |
| paraige {m} | :: A hereditary ruling class in Metz in the Middle Ages |
| par ailleurs {adv} | :: besides, additionally, furthermore, what's more |
| paraison {f} | :: parison |
| paraitre {v} | :: alternative spelling of paraître |
| paraître {v} | :: to appear (become visible) |
| paraître {v} [usually in passive] | :: to be published |
| paraître {v} | :: to appear, to seem |
| paraître {m} | :: appearance |
| parajuriste {m} [legal] | :: paralegal |
| parakératose {f} [pathology] | :: parakeratosis |
| paralactique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: paralactic |
| paralampsie {f} | :: paralampsis |
| paralangage {m} | :: paralanguage (non-verbal communication) |
| paralarve {f} | :: paralarva |
| paralaurionite {f} [mineral] | :: paralaurionite |
| paralbumine {f} | :: paralbumin |
| paraldéhyde {m} [organic compound] | :: paraldehyde |
| paralégal {adj} | :: paralegal |
| paralégal {m} | :: paralegal |
| paralipse {f} | :: paralipsis |
| paralique {adj} | :: paralic |
| paralittérature {f} | :: paraliterature |
| parallactique {adj} | :: parallactic |
| parallactiquement {adv} | :: parallactically |
| parallaxe {f} | :: parallax |
| parallèle {adj} [geometry] | :: parallel |
| parallèlement {adv} | :: parallelly |
| parallélépipède {m} [geometry] | :: parallelepiped |
| parallélépipédique {adj} | :: parallelepipedic |
| parallélépipèdique {adj} | :: parallelepipedic |
| parallélipipède {m} | :: alternative form of parallélépipède |
| parallélique {adj} | :: parallelistic |
| parallélisation {f} | :: parallelization |
| parallèlisation {f} | :: alternative form of parallélisation |
| paralléliser {v} | :: To parallelize |
| parallélisme {m} | :: parallelism (state or condition of being parallel) |
| parallélogrammatique {adj} | :: parallelogrammatic |
| parallélogramme {m} | :: parallelogram |
| parallélographe {m} | :: parallelograph |
| paralogie {f} | :: paralogy, paralogism |
| paralogique {adj} | :: paralogical |
| paralogisme {m} | :: paralogism |
| paralympien {m} [sport] | :: Paralympian (male) |
| paralympienne {f} | :: Paralympian (female); feminine of paralympien |
| paralympique {adj} | :: Paralympic |
| Paralympiques {prop} | :: Paralympics; ellipsis of Jeux paralympiques |
| paralysant {adj} | :: crippling |
| paralysant {adj} | :: paralyzing |
| paralysateur {adj} | :: paralyzing |
| paralysateur {adj} | :: crippling |
| paralyser {v} | :: to paralyse / paralyze |
| paralysie {f} | :: paralysis |
| paralysie cérébrale {f} | :: cerebral palsy |
| paralytique {adj} | :: paralytic |
| paramagnétique {adj} [physics] | :: paramagnetic |
| paramagnétisme {m} [physics] | :: paramagnetism |
| paramakan {m} | :: Paramaccan (language) |
| paramakan {adj} | :: Paramaccan |
| paramaléate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: paramaleate |
| paramaléique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: paramaleic |
| paramécie {f} [zoology] | :: paramecium |
| paramédical {adj} | :: paramedical |
| paramentique {f} | :: parament |
| paramentique {f} | :: vestment |
| paramésonéphrotique {adj} [anatomy] | :: paramesonephrotic |
| paramétrable {adj} | :: configurable, customizable, parametrizable |
| paramétrage {m} | :: parameterization |
| paramétrage {m} | :: setup, configuration |
| paramètre {m} | :: parameter |
| paramétrer {v} [computing] | :: to configure |
| paramétrique {adj} | :: parametric |
| paramétrisation {f} | :: parametrisation |
| paramilitaire {adj} | :: paramilitary |
| paramilitaire {m} | :: paramilitary (a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion) |
| paramilitarisme {m} | :: paramilitarism |
| paramnésie {f} | :: paramnesia |
| paramorphose {f} [geology] | :: paramorphism |
| paramoteur {m} | :: paramotor |
| paramucique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: paramucic |
| paramutation {f} [genetics] | :: paramutation |
| paranan {m} | :: Paranan / Palanan |
| paranatellon {m} | :: paranatellon |
| paranatellonique {adj} | :: paranatellon (attributive) |
| paranéoptère {m} | :: Any louse of the clade Paraneoptera |
| parangon {m} | :: paragon, standard (model or pattern) |
| parangoner {v} | :: alternative form of parangonner |
| parangonner {v} | :: to paragon |
| parano {adj} [colloquial] | :: paranoid |
| parano {mf} [colloquial] | :: a paranoid person |
| parano {f} [colloquial] | :: paranoia |
| paranoïa {f} | :: paranoia |
| paranoïaque {adj} | :: paranoid |
| paranoïaque {adj} [medicine] | :: related to paranoia |
| paranoïaque {mf} | :: a paranoid person |
| paranoïde {adj} | :: paranoid |
| paranoïde {mf} | :: paranoid person |
| paranomase {f} | :: obsolete form of paronomase |
| para nordique {m} [skiing] | :: para-nordic; ellipsis of ski para-nordique |
| para-nordique {m} [skiing] | :: para-nordic; ellipsis of ski para-nordique |
| paranordique {m} [skiing] | :: para-nordic; ellipsis of ski para-nordique |
| paranormal {adj} | :: paranormal |
| paranthrope {mf} | :: Any primate of the genus Paranthropus |
| paranymphe {m} | :: paranymph |
| parapectine {f} | :: parapectin |
| parapegme {m} | :: parapegma |
| parapente {m} | :: paraglider |
| parapentiste {mf} | :: paraglider (one who paraglides) |
| parapet {m} | :: parapet |
| parapétrolier {adj} | :: oil delivery / services (attributive) |
| parapharmacie {f} | :: pharmacy, chemist's (UK) / drugstore (US) |
| paraphe {m} | :: paraph |
| paraphe {m} | :: initials |
| paraphénylènediamine {f} [organic compound] | :: paraphenylenediamine |
| parapher {vt} | :: to sign or initial a document |
| paraphernal {adj} | :: paraphernal |
| paraphernalité {f} [legal] | :: paraphernality |
| parapheur {m} | :: parafor; a folder containing correspondence to be signed - a word yet to be invented in English. (The "Office québécois de la langue française" suggests "signature book", but this is a book used by people who collect signatures) |
| paraphilie {f} | :: paraphilia |
| paraphrasable {adj} | :: paraphrasable |
| paraphraser {v} | :: paraphrase (to compose a paraphrase) |
| paraphraseur {m} | :: paraphraser |
| paraphraseuse {f} | :: feminine singular of paraphraseur |
| paraphraste {m} | :: paraphrast |
| paraphrastique {adj} | :: paraphrastic |
| paraphylétique {adj} [systematics] | :: paraphyletic (excluding some descendants of the most recent common ancestor) |
| paraphylie {f} [systematics] | :: paraphyly |
| paraphyse {f} | :: paraphysis |
| paraplégie {f} [pathology] | :: paraplegia (paralysed condition) |
| paraplégique {adj} | :: paraplegic |
| paraplégique {mf} | :: paraplegic |
| parapleure {f} | :: parapleura |
| paraplexie {f} | :: synonym of paraplégie |
| parapluie {m} | :: umbrella for rain |
| parapode {m} | :: parapodium |
| parapsychique {adj} | :: parapsychic |
| parapsychologie {f} | :: parapsychology (study of that which cannot yet be explained) |
| parapsychologique {adj} | :: parapsychological |
| parapsychologue {mf} | :: parapsychologist |
| paraptère {m} | :: parapterum |
| parapublic {adj} [economics] | :: Having capital in both the public and private sectors |
| parareligieux {adj} | :: parareligious |
| pararickettsie {f} | :: synonym of chlamydie |
| pararthrème {m} | :: subluxation |
| parasange {f} | :: parasang |
| parascève {f} | :: Parasceve |
| parascolaire {adj} | :: extracurricular |
| parasélène {mf} | :: paraselene, moon dog |
| parasexualité {f} | :: parasexuality |
| parasexuel {adj} | :: parasexual |
| parasismique {adj} | :: paraseismic |
| parasitaire {adj} | :: parasitic, parasitical |
| parasitairement {adv} | :: parasitically |
| parasite {m} | :: a parasite |
| parasite {adj} | :: parasitic |
| parasité {adj} | :: parasitized |
| parasitémie {f} [pathology] | :: parasitemia |
| parasiter {v} | :: To parasitize |
| parasitiforme {m} | :: parasitiform |
| parasitique {adj} | :: parasitic |
| parasitiquement {adv} | :: parasitically |
| parasitisme {m} | :: parasitism |
| parasitoïde {m} | :: parasitoid |
| parasitologie {f} | :: parasitology |
| parasitologique {adj} | :: parasitological |
| parasitologiste {mf} | :: synonym of parasitologue |
| parasitologue {mf} | :: parasitologist |
| parasitose {f} [pathology] | :: parasitosis |
| paraskevidékatriaphobie {f} | :: paraskavedekatriaphobia |
| para ski {m} | :: alternate spelling of paraski |
| para-ski {m} | :: alternate spelling of paraski |
| paraski {m} | :: paraskiing |
| paraski {m} | :: kitesurfing |
| para ski de fond {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-ski de fond |
| para-ski de fond {m} | :: para cross-country skiing; a disability sport, an adapted version of cross-country skiing (ski de fond) |
| paraski de fond {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-ski de fond |
| parasol {m} | :: A large, anchored umbrella used as protection from the sun |
| parasomnie {f} [pathology] | :: parasomnia |
| parasport {m} | :: parasport |
| parasportif {adj} | :: parasport (attributive) |
| parassien {adj} | :: Of or from Parassy |
| Parassy {prop} | :: A commune in the Cher department of Centre |
| parastatal {adj} | :: parastatal |
| para surf des neiges {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-surf des neiges |
| para-surf des neiges {m} | :: parasnowboarding; a parasport, an adapted form of snowboarding for the disabled |
| parasurf des neiges {m} | :: alternate spelling of para-surf des neiges |
| parasurtenseur {m} | :: surge protector |
| parasympathicomimétique {adj} | :: parasympathomimetic |
| parasympathique {adj} | :: parasympathetic |
| parasympathomimétique {adj} | :: parasympathomimetic |
| parasynonyme {m} | :: parasynonym |
| parasynonymie {f} | :: parasynonymy |
| parasynthèse {f} | :: parasynthesis |
| parasynthétique {adj} | :: parasynthetic |
| Parat {prop} | :: surname |
| parataxe {f} [grammar] | :: parataxis |
| paratélique {adj} | :: paratelic |
| paratexte {m} | :: paratext |
| paratextualité {f} | :: paratextuality |
| parathlète {mf} | :: parathlete; alternate form of para-athlète |
| parathormone {f} | :: parathyroid hormone |
| parathyroïde {f} | :: parathyroid |
| parathyroïdie {f} [anatomy] | :: parathyroid (gland) |
| parathyroïdien {adj} | :: parathyroid (attributive) |
| paratomie {f} [biology] | :: paratomy |
| paratomique {adj} [biology] | :: paratomic |
| paratonnerre {m} | :: lightning rod |
| parâtre {m} | :: stepfather, father-in-law (especially an evil one) |
| paratuberculeux {adj} [biology] | :: paratuberculous |
| paratuberculose {f} | :: paratuberculosis |
| paratyphoïde {f} [pathology] | :: paratyphoid |
| parauk {m} | :: Parauk |
| paraussien {adj} | :: Of or from Saint-Louis-et-Parahou |
| Paraussien {m} | :: A native or inhabitant of Saint-Louis-et-Parahou |
| paravalanche {m} | :: snow fence |
| paravent {m} | :: folding screen |
| paraxonique {adj} | :: paraxonic |
| paraysien {adj} | :: Of or from Paray-Vieille-Poste |
| paraysien {adj} | :: Of or from Paray-le-Frésil |
| Paraysien {m} | :: Native or inhabitant of Paray-Vieille-Poste |
| Paraysien {m} | :: Native or inhabitant of Paray-le-Frésil |
| Paraysienne {f} | :: feminine singular of Paraysien |
| parazois {adj} | :: Of or from Paraza |
| parbleu {interj} [archaic] | :: by Jove; gadzooks |
| par bonheur {adv} | :: luckily, fortunately |
| parc {m} | :: park |
| parc {m} | :: playpen (for children) |
| parc {m} | :: pen (for animals) |
| parc {m} | :: (total) number; stock (de (of)) |
| parc aquatique {m} | :: water park, aquapark |
| parc aux petits {f} [Louisiana French, Cajun French] | :: a Cajun dancing room |
| parce {prep} | :: only used in parce que |
| parcellaire {adj} | :: Of or pertaining to parcels or plots (of land etc) |
| parcelle {f} | :: parcel (piece of land) |
| parcellisation {f} | :: fragmentation |
| parcellisation {f} | :: parcelling out |
| parcelliser {vt} | :: to parcel out |
| parce que {conj} | :: because |
| parceque {conj} [obsolete] | :: for parce que |
| parc fermé {m} | :: A park which is closed, or with restricted entry |
| parc fermé {m} [motor racing] | :: A secure car park where competing cars must be left, for example during rest periods, and where no maintenance, repairs, or enhancements may be carried out |
| par chance {adv} | :: luckily, fortunately |
| parchemin {m} | :: parchment (material) |
| parcheminé {adj} | :: wrinkled |
| parcheminé {adj} | :: papery |
| parcimonie {f} | :: parsimony (great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily) |
| parcimonieusement {adv} | :: parsimoniously |
| parcimonieux {adj} | :: parsimonious |
| par-ci, par-là {adv} | :: here and there |
| parcmètre {m} | :: parking meter |
| par cœur {adv} | :: by heart, by rote |
| parcomètre {m} | :: parking meter |
| par conséquent {adv} | :: consequently, as a result, thus |
| par contre {adv} [idiomatic] | :: on the other hand (from another point of view); however |
| par contumace {adv} | :: in absentia (while not present) |
| parcourir {v} | :: to go through, to pass through |
| parcourir {v} | :: to read through, to skim |
| parcours {m} | :: route, course |
| parcours {m} | :: career |
| parcours {m} [historical] | :: a traditional roaming or grazing right |
| parcours {m} [golf] | :: round; course |
| parcours du combattant {m} | :: assault course, obstacle course |
| parcours du combattant {m} [figuratively] | :: painful and strenuous experience; hassle |
| parcouru {adj} | :: browsed, skimmed |
| par-delà {prep} | :: beyond, across |
| par-dessus {prep} | :: over (the top of) |
| pardessus {m} | :: overcoat (garment) |
| par-dessus bord {adv} | :: overboard |
| par-dessus la jambe {adv} [colloquial] | :: slipshodly, slapdash, offhandedly, in an offhand manner, rushedly |
| par-dessus le marché {adv} [colloquial] | :: into the bargain, to boot, on top of that |
| pardi {interj} [dated] | :: (yes,) obviously! (yes,) for God's sake! (yes,) of course! |
| pardieu {interj} [dated] | :: by God |
| pardon {interj} | :: excuse me |
| pardon {interj} | :: sorry |
| pardon {m} | :: pardon, forgiveness |
| pardonnable {adj} | :: pardonable |
| pardonner {v} | :: to pardon, forgive |
| pardonner {vt} | :: to excuse |
| paré {adj} | :: ready, prepared, all set |
| paréage {m} | :: A feudal treaty recognising joint sovereignty over a territory by two rulers |
| pare-balle {adj} | :: bulletproof |
| pare-brise {m} | :: windscreen (UK), windshield (US) |
| pare-choc {m} | :: bumper [UK], fender [US] |
| pare-chocs {m} | :: bumper [UK], fender [US] |
| pare-feu {m} | :: fireguard |
| pare-feu {m} | :: (in forest) firebreak |
| pare-feu {m} [computing, Internet] | :: firewall |
| paréidolie {f} | :: pareidolia |
| paréidolien {adj} | :: pareidolic |
| pareil {adj} | :: such |
| pareil {adj} | :: like, alike, same |
| pareillement {adv} | :: likewise; in the same way; equally |
| pareillement {adv} | :: too; also |
| parélie {f} | :: alternative form of parhélie |
| parement {m} [construction, clothing] | :: facing |
| parenchymateux {adj} [biology] | :: parenchymatous |
| parenchymateux {adj} [medicine] | :: parenchymal |
| parenchyme {m} | :: parenchyma |
| par endroits {adv} | :: in places |
| parénèse {f} [religion] | :: Parenesis |
| parénétique {adj} | :: parenetic, parenetical |
| parent {m} | :: relative, relation, family member |
| parent {m} [Louisiana French, singular] | :: parent |
| parent {m} [in the plural] | :: ancestors |
| parent {m} [in the plural] | :: parents |
| parent {adj} | :: related |
| parent {adj} | :: similar |
| Parent {prop} | :: surname |
| parental {adj} | :: parental |
| parentalité {f} | :: parenthood |
| parente {f} | :: feminine noun of parent |
| parenté {f} | :: kinship |
| parentèle {f} | :: relative, relation |
| parentèle {f} | :: (collectively) kin, relatives |
| parentèle {f} | :: (biology, inheritance) parentela |
| parentéral {adj} | :: parenteral |
| parentéralement {adv} | :: parenterally |
| parenthèse {f} | :: a parenthesis, a digression |
| parenthèse {f} | :: either of a pair of round brackets |
| parent pauvre {m} [with the definite article le] | :: poor relation |
| parer {v} | :: to adorn; to bedeck |
| parer {v} | :: to fend off |
| parer {v} [fencing] | :: to parry |
| parer {vr} | :: to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes) |
| parésie {f} | :: paresis (partial paralysis) |
| paresse {f} | :: laziness |
| paresser {vt} | :: to laze about; loaf |
| paresseusement {adv} | :: lazily |
| paresseusement {adv} | :: sluggishly |
| paresseux {adj} | :: lazy |
| paresseux {m} | :: lazy person; slacker |
| paresseux {m} | :: a sloth |
| par excellence {adv} | :: by or in virtue of excellence |
| par exemple {adv} | :: for example, for instance |
| par exemple {adv} [Quebec] | :: on the other hand |
| parfaire {v} [literary] | :: to finish, to complete |
| parfaire {v} | :: to make a supplementary payment |
| parfait {adj} | :: perfect (exactly right) |
| parfait {m} [grammar] | :: perfect tense |
| parfaitement {adv} | :: perfectly |
| parfois {adv} | :: sometimes |
| parfum {m} | :: perfume (scented toiletry) |
| parfum {m} | :: scent, desirable smell |
| parfum {m} | :: flavour, aroma, taste (e.g., of ice cream) |
| parfumé {adj} | :: perfumed |
| parfumer {v} | :: to perfume (to apply a scent) |
| parfumerie {f} | :: perfumery (shop selling perfumes) |
| parfumerie {f} | :: perfumery (perfume products) |
| parfumerie {f} | :: perfume industry; the art of perfume |
| parfumeur {m} | :: perfumer (maker of perfumes) |
| parfumeur {m} | :: perfumer (someone who sells perfumes) |
| parfumeuse {f} | :: feminine singular of parfumeur |
| par hasard {adv} | :: at random, by chance |
| par hasard {adv} | :: by any chance |
| parhélie {f} | :: parhelion (bright spot in the sky due to refraction of the sun by ice crystals) |
| pari {m} | :: wager, bet |
| pari {m} | :: gamble, risk |
| paria {mf} | :: pariah |
| pariage {m} | :: A feudal association between a (typically ecclesiastical) lord and a more powerful one |
| par ici {adv} | :: over here, here (to this place) |
| par ici {adv} | :: around here |
| parier {v} | :: to bet (make a guess about the outcome of an event) |
| pariétaire {f} | :: pellitory, lichwort (Parietaria officinalis) |
| pariétal {adj} | :: parietal |
| pariétine {f} | :: parietin |
| pariétopleure {f} [anatomy] | :: synonym of somatopleure |
| parieur {m} | :: gambler |
| parieuse {f} | :: feminine noun of parieur |
| parigot {adj} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: Parisian |
| Parigot {m} [colloquial] | :: Parisian |
| Parigote {f} | :: feminine noun of Parigot |
| Paris {prop} {mf} {m} | :: Paris (in France) |
| Pariseau {prop} | :: surname |
| parisien {adj} | :: Parisian; relating to Paris or its inhabitants |
| Parisien {m} | :: Parisian (someone from Paris) |
| parisienne {f} [printing, dated] | :: A small size of type, standardized as 5 point |
| Parisienne {f} | :: Parisienne |
| parisis {adj} | :: As minted in Paris |
| Paris ne s'est pas fait en un jour {proverb} | :: Rome wasn't built in a day |
| Parisome {prop} {f} | :: The genus Parisoma: formerly one of the genera of warblers, in family Sylviidae, but now often taken to be a superspecies within genus Sylvia |
| Parisot {prop} | :: surname |
| paritaire {adj} | :: parity, equality (attributive) |
| paritaire {adj} | :: egalitarian |
| parité {f} | :: equality, parity |
| Parizeau {prop} | :: surname |
| parjure {m} | :: forswearing, abjuration |
| parjure {m} | :: betrayal, disloyalty, treachery |
| parjure {m} | :: betrayer, traitor, disloyal person |
| parjurer {v} | :: to forswear, abjure |
| parker {vt} [Quebec] | :: to park (a vehicle) |
| parking {m} | :: car park |
| parkinsonien {adj} | :: parkinsonian, Parkinsonian |
| parkour {m} | :: Free running, parkour |
| par là {adv} | :: over there |
| par là {adv} | :: (by extension) by that, that way |
| parlabilité {f} | :: speakability |
| parlable {adj} [of a person] | :: reasonable |
| parlant {adj} | :: telling, eloquent |
| par la suite {adv} | :: subsequently, thereafter, afterwards, later |
| parlé {adj} | :: colloquial |
| parle à ma main {phrase} [colloquial] | :: talk to the hand |
| par le biais de {prep} | :: by way of, by means of, with |
| par le biais de {prep} | :: through, with the help of, thanks to |
| parlement {m} | :: parliament |
| parlementaire {adj} | :: parliamentary |
| parlementairement {adv} | :: parliamentarily |
| parlementarisme {m} | :: parliamentarism (parliamentary government) |
| parlementer {v} | :: to negotiate, discuss, argue things over |
| parler {vi} | :: to speak or talk |
| parler {vt} | :: to be able to communicate in a language; to speak |
| parler {v} [heraldry] | :: to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name |
| parler {m} | :: parlance |
| parler de la pluie et du beau temps {v} | :: to make small talk, to chit-chat |
| parler de soi-même {v} | :: to speak for oneself |
| parler de tout et de rien {v} | :: to make small talk, to chit-chat |
| parler français comme une vache espagnole {v} [simile, colloquial] | :: to speak French poorly |
| parler pour ne rien dire {v} | :: to talk for the sake of talking, to waffle |
| parles-tu anglais {phrase} [colloquial] | :: do you speak English? |
| parleur {adj} | :: talkative |
| parleur {m} | :: speaker (someone who speaks) |
| parleuse {f} | :: feminine noun of parleur |
| parlez-vous anglais {phrase} [formal] | :: do you speak English? |
| parloir {m} | :: parlour (of house, covent) |
| parloir {m} | :: visitors' room (of hospital, school); visiting room (of prison) |
| parloir {m} | :: greenroom (in theatre etc.) |
| parloir aux bourgeois {m} [archaic] | :: guild-hall, town hall |
| parlote {f} | :: chitchat |
| parloteur {m} | :: chatterer |
| parloteuse {f} | :: feminine noun of parloteur |
| parlure {f} | :: parlance, turn of phrase |
| parme {m} | :: mauve (colour) |
| parme {m} | :: Parma ham, prosciutto |
| Parme {prop} | :: Parma, city in Italy |
| Parme {prop} | :: Parma, province of Italy |
| par mégarde {adv} | :: inadvertently; accidentally; by mistake |
| Parménas {prop} | :: Parmenas |
| Parménide {prop} {m} | :: Parmenides |
| parmentier {m} | :: mashed potato |
| parmesan {adj} | :: Parmesan (from Parma) |
| parmi {prep} | :: among, amongst |
| parmi {prep} | :: amid, amidst |
| par monts et par vaux {adv} [figuratively, colloquial] | :: up hill and down dale |
| Parnasse {prop} {m} | :: Parnassus (Greek mountain) |
| Parnasse {prop} {m} | :: Parnassianism, 19th century literary movement |
| paro {adj} [slang] | :: neurotic |
| parodie {f} | :: parody |
| parodier {v} | :: to parody |
| parodique {adj} | :: parodic |
| parodiquement {adv} | :: parodically |
| parodonte {m} [anatomy] | :: periodontium |
| paroi {f} [anatomy, botany] | :: wall |
| paroi {f} | :: inner wall, inside surface (of receptacle etc.) |
| paroi {f} | :: side (of bathtub etc.) |
| paroisse {f} | :: parish |
| paroissial {adj} | :: parochial, [attributive] parish |
| paroissien {m} | :: parishioner |
| paroissienne {f} | :: feminine noun of paroissien |
| parole {f} | :: utterance, expression (a unit of discourse, firstly oral) |
| parole {f} | :: voice, spoken word |
| parole {f} [in the plural] | :: lyrics, words (of a song) |
| parole {f} | :: promise, word |
| parole {f} | :: floor; the right to speak in a legislative assembly |
| Parole {prop} | :: Word |
| parole d'évangile {f} [figuratively] | :: gospel truth, gospel |
| parole d'Évangile {f} | :: alternative spelling of parole d'évangile |
| paroli {m} [game] | :: a double stake |
| parolier {m} | :: lyricist |
| parolière {f} | :: feminine noun of parolier |
| paronomase {f} | :: paronomasia |
| paronyme {f} | :: almost homonym |
| parotide {adj} | :: parotid |
| parotide {f} [anatomy] | :: parotid (gland) |
| parotidectomie {f} [surgery] | :: parotidectomy |
| parotidien {adj} [anatomy] | :: parotid |
| parotique {adj} [anatomy] | :: parotic |
| paroxysme {m} | :: height |
| paroxysme {m} | :: paroxysm |
| paroxystique {adj} | :: paroxysmal |
| parpaing {m} | :: perpend stone, through stone |
| parpaing {m} [metonymy] | :: breeze-block (building block) |
| parpaing {adj} | :: through (stone, ashlar) |
| par parenthèse {adv} | :: parenthetically |
| par pitié {interj} | :: please, pray, for pity's sake, mercy, have mercy, for the love of God, for God's sake, I beg you |
| par principe {adv} | :: out of principle, on principle, as a matter of principle |
| par principe {adv} | :: just in case |
| parquer {vt} | :: to pen, corral |
| parquer {vt} | :: to park |
| parquet {m} | :: parquet (floor) |
| parquet {m} [legal, with definite article] | :: the prosecution |
| parqueter {vt} | :: to lay a parquet floor |
| parrain {m} [religion] | :: godfather |
| parrain {m} | :: namer, christener (of a ship) |
| parrain {m} | :: sponsor, proposer; patron |
| parrainage {m} | :: patronage |
| parrainage {m} | :: sponsorship, promotion |
| parrainage {m} | :: christening, naming |
| parrainer {v} | :: to mentor |
| parrainer {v} | :: to sponsor |
| par rapport à {prep} | :: in relation to |
| par rapport à {prep} | :: compared to |
| parricide {m} | :: someone who commits parricide |
| parricide {m} | :: parricide, murder of one's close relative |
| parrilla {m} | :: grill, barbeque (equipment) |
| parsemable {adj} | :: sprinklable, scatterable |
| parsemer {vt} | :: to sprinkle, scatter, strew (de with) |
| parsemer {vt} | :: to be scattered or strewn over |
| par suite de {conj} | :: as a result of, due to |
| part {f} | :: share |
| part {f} | :: portion, part |
| part {f} | :: proportion |
| part {m} | :: newborn |
| partage {m} | :: sharing (act of sharing) |
| partagé {adj} | :: conflicted, undecided, unsure |
| partager {v} | :: to share |
| partager {v} | :: to divide up |
| partager {v} | :: to divide |
| partager {v} | :: to share out |
| partageur {m} | :: sharer (one who shares, especially willingly) |
| partageuse {f} | :: feminine singular of partageur |
| partageux {m} | :: synonym of partageur |
| partance {f} | :: leaving |
| partant {m} | :: runner, starter [in a foot race or horse race] |
| partant {m} | :: a person who is leaving or departing |
| partant {adj} | :: leaving, ready to leave |
| partant {adj} [colloquial] | :: down, up for, game, keen, available |
| partant {conj} [archaic, literary] | :: consequently, therefore |
| part de marché {m} | :: market share |
| part du lion {f} | :: lion's share (a generous portion) |
| partenaire {mf} | :: partner |
| partenarial {adj} | :: associative, as a partner |
| partenariat {m} | :: partnership |
| par terre {adv} | :: on the ground |
| par terre {adj} | :: on the ground |
| parterre {m} | :: part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds |
| parterre {m} | :: the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear |
| parterre {m} [by extension] | :: the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre |
| parterre {m} [by analogy] | :: an assembly or group of people |
| parthe {adj} | :: Parthian (relating to Parthia) |
| parthénogenèse {f} [biology] | :: parthenogenesis |
| parthénogénèse {f} | :: alternative form of parthénogenèse |
| parthénogénétique {adj} [biology] | :: parthenogenetic |
| parthénogénétiquement {adv} | :: parthenogenetically |
| parthénote {m} [biology] | :: parthenote |
| Parthie {prop} {f} | :: Parthia |
| parti {adj} [heraldry] | :: divided into two equal parts vertically, per pale; said of an escutcheon |
| parti {m} [politics] | :: party |
| parti {m} | :: parti |
| parti {m} | :: course of action |
| partial {adj} | :: partial, biased |
| partialement {adv} | :: in a biased manner |
| partialité {f} | :: partiality, bias |
| participant {m} | :: participant |
| participante {f} | :: feminine noun of participant |
| participatif {adj} | :: participatory |
| participation {f} | :: participation |
| participationniste {mf} | :: participant |
| participativement {adv} | :: participatively |
| participe {m} | :: participle |
| participe passé {m} | :: past participle |
| participe présent {m} | :: present participle |
| participer {vi} | :: To participate (in = à) |
| participer {vi} | :: To donate (to = à) |
| participial {adj} | :: participial |
| participialement {adv} | :: participially |
| Parti conservateur {prop} [politics] | :: Conservative Party or Conservative party |
| particulaire {adj} | :: particulate |
| particulaire {adj} [physics] | :: particle (attributive) |
| particulariser {v} | :: To particularise |
| particularisme {m} | :: particularism; quirk |
| particulariste {m} | :: particularist |
| particularité {f} | :: oddity, particularity |
| particule {f} [particle, grammar] | :: particle |
| particule élémentaire {f} [particle] | :: elementary particle |
| particulier {adj} | :: particular |
| particulier {adj} | :: peculiar |
| particulier {m} | :: an individual; a specified person |
| particulièrement {adv} | :: particularly, specifically |
| particulièrement {adv} | :: especially |
| particulièrement {adv} | :: in particular |
| partidaire {adj} | :: partisan, party political |
| partie {f} | :: part (portion, amount) |
| partie {f} [legal] | :: party |
| partie {f} | :: game, play (sense "the conduct, or course of a game") |
| partie de jambes en l'air {f} [figuratively, colloquial] | :: horizontal dancing, a roll in the hay |
| partie de plaisir {f} [colloquial] | :: cake walk, piece of cake, bed of roses |
| partie du discours {f} | :: part of speech |
| partie intégrante {f} | :: part and parcel of |
| partiel {adj} | :: partial (part, no full) |
| partiel {m} | :: overtone (harmonic) |
| partiel {m} [France, colloquial] | :: midterm exam |
| partiellement {adv} | :: partially, in part |
| partie prenante {f} | :: stakeholder; interested party |
| parti politique {m} | :: political party (political organization) |
| parti pris {m} | :: alternative form of parti-pris |
| parti-pris {m} | :: bias |
| Parti Québécois {prop} [Canada, politics] | :: a separatist left-leaning Québec political party |
| partir {vt} [obsolete] | :: to share, to share out, to divide |
| partir {vi} | :: to go away, leave, depart |
| partir {vi} | :: to originate |
| partir {vi} | :: to die |
| partir {vi} [figuratively] | :: to emanate |
| partir {vt} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to start |
| partir du mauvais pied {v} [idiomatic] | :: To start off on the wrong foot |
| partir en couille {vi} [vulgar] | :: to go awry, to hit the fan, to go to shit |
| partir en fumée {vi} [figuratively] | :: to go up in smoke |
| partir en sucette {vi} [colloquial] | :: to go awry, to hit the fan, to go pear-shaped |
| partir en vrille {vi} [colloquial] | :: to go awry, to hit the fan, to go pear-shaped |
| partir sans demander son reste {v} [figuratively] | :: to leave without further ado, to leave without a murmur, to take to one's heels |
| partisan {m} | :: supporter, proponent, advocate |
| partisan {adj} | :: partisan, partial |
| partisan {adj} | :: in favour of |
| partisane {f} | :: partisan (fervent supporter of a party) |
| partitif {adj} | :: partitive (indicating a part) |
| partitif {m} | :: partitive |
| partitif {m} | :: partitive case |
| partition {f} [heraldry] | :: a (geometrical) division using two colors |
| partition {f} [music] | :: a score, often comprising all parts |
| partition {f} [databases, computing] | :: partition |
| partitioniste {m} | :: alternative form of partitionniste |
| partitionnement {m} | :: the act of partitioning |
| partitionner {v} | :: to partition |
| partitionniste {m} [Canada, politics] | :: partitionist (a political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec) |
| Parti vert {prop} {m} [politics] | :: Green Party |
| partoche {f} [familiar] | :: sheet music |
| partouse {f} [slang] | :: orgy |
| par tous les temps {adv} | :: come rain or shine |
| partout {adv} | :: everywhere |
| partout ailleurs {adv} | :: everywhere else |
| partouze {f} | :: alternative form of partouse |
| par trop {adv} [literary] | :: far too, much too, overly, too |
| partschinite {f} [mineral] | :: spessartine |
| parturiente {f} | :: parturient |
| party {mf} [Canada] | :: party (social gathering) |
| paruline {f} | :: warbler (specifically, a wood-warbler, member of the Parulidae family) |
| parure {f} | :: parure |
| parure {f} | :: finery |
| parution {f} | :: apparition |
| parution {f} | :: creation |
| parution {f} | :: publication |
| parvenir {v} | :: (intransitive; followed by à) to reach |
| parvenir {v} | :: (intransitive; followed by à) to succeed |
| parvenir à ses fins {v} | :: to get one's way, to have one's way, to achieve one's goals, to achieve one's ends |
| parvenu {adj} | :: parvenu |
| parvenu {m} | :: parvenu |
| parvis {m} [historical] | :: parvis |
| parvis {m} | :: forecourt, square |
| pas {m} | :: step, pace, footstep |
| pas {m} [geography] | :: strait (e.g., Pas de Calais, "Strait of Dover") |
| pas {adv} | :: [ne ... pas] not |
| pas {adv} [colloquial, spoken] | :: not |
| pas à pas {adv} | :: step by step (gradually) |
| pascal {adj} | :: paschal |
| pascal {m} | :: pascal |
| Pascal {prop} | :: given name of Latin origin |
| Pascal {prop} | :: surname |
| Pascale {prop} | :: given name, feminine form of Pascal |
| pascalien {adj} | :: Pascalian |
| Pascaline {prop} | :: given name, feminine diminutive form of Pascal |
| pasdaran {m} | :: pasdaran |
| pas d'armes {m} | :: joust; tilt; tourney |
| pas de {prep} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: without |
| Pas de Calais {prop} | :: The English Channel or Strait of Dover, the North Sea strait between Dover (England) and Calais (France) |
| Pas-de-Calais {prop} | :: A département of northern France, bordering the North Sea and Belgium |
| pas de nouvelle, bonnes nouvelles {proverb} | :: no news is good news |
| pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles {proverb} | :: no news is good news |
| pas de problème {interj} | :: No problem! |
| pas de quoi {interj} [colloquial] | :: you're welcome (after being thanked) |
| pas des masses {adv} [colloquial] | :: not much |
| pas du tout {adv} | :: not at all, not in the least, by no means |
| pas du tout {interj} | :: not at all! |
| pas encore {adv} | :: not yet |
| pas encore {adv} | :: not again |
| pasionaria {f} | :: A female political activist, usually in a left-wing organization |
| pas japonais {m} | :: stepping stone (stone used to cross something) |
| pas le moins du monde {adv} | :: not in the least, not in the slightest, not at all, by no means |
| pas mal {adv} | :: not bad (reasonably good) |
| pas mal {adv} [idiomatic, colloquial] | :: a lot of, loads of |
| pas mal {adj} | :: not bad |
| paso doble {m} | :: paso doble (dance) |
| pas pour deux sous {adv} [colloquial] | :: not ... at all, not ... in the least |
| pas pour un sou {adv} [colloquial] | :: not ... at all, not ... in the least |
| pas question {interj} [colloquial] | :: no way (indicates rejection) |
| passable {adj} | :: Passable; tolerable; fair |
| passablement {adv} | :: passably or reasonably well |
| passage {m} | :: The act of going through a place or event |
| passage {m} | :: The time when such an act occurs |
| passage {m} [uncountable] | :: Circulation, traffic, movement |
| passage {m} [astronomy] | :: Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian |
| passage {m} | :: A short stay |
| passage {m} | :: A trip or travel, especially by boat |
| passage {m} | :: The act of going from a state to another |
| passage {m} | :: Graduation from a school year |
| passage {m} | :: The act of making something undergo a process |
| passage {m} | :: the act of handing something to someone |
| passage {m} | :: An access way |
| passage {m} | :: A laid out way allowing to go across something |
| passage {m} | :: An alley or alleyway off-limits to cars |
| passage {m} | :: A paragraph or section of text or music |
| passage à l'acte {m} [psychology] | :: Impulsive acting out |
| passage à niveau {m} | :: Level crossing |
| passage à tabac {m} [idiomatic] | :: a thorough beating |
| passage à vide {m} | :: funny turn, bad patch, slump, dry spell |
| passage clouté {m} [European French] | :: Pedestrian crossing |
| passage piéton {m} | :: pedestrian crossing |
| passager {m} | :: Passenger |
| passager {m} [archaic] | :: Traveller |
| passager {adj} | :: Whose presence in a location is only temporary; passing |
| passager {adj} | :: Of a short duration; temporary; transitory, fleeting, flighty |
| passager {adj} [colloquial, of a street or place] | :: Busy |
| passagère {f} | :: feminine noun of passager |
| passagèrement {adv} | :: temporarily, transiently |
| passant {m} | :: passer-by |
| passant {m} | :: loop (in belt etc.) |
| passant {adj} | :: busy (as in a busy street) |
| passant {adj} [heraldry] | :: passant |
| passation {f} [legal] | :: handover (of legal documents), transferal (of power or office) |
| passation de pouvoir {f} | :: handover of power or office |
| passation de témoin {f} | :: handover |
| passe {f} | :: pass (the act of passing) |
| passe {f} | :: pass (passageway) |
| passe {f} [sports] | :: pass |
| passe {f} | :: pass (document allowing entry) |
| passé {m} | :: past tense |
| passé {m} | :: past (opposite of future) |
| passé {adj} | :: past |
| passé {adj} [used with certain temporal nouns] | :: last |
| passé antérieur {m} [grammar] | :: past anterior |
| passé composé {m} | :: A past tense in French grammar, to express a completed ('perfect') action |
| passe décisive {f} [soccer] | :: assist |
| passé de mode {adj} | :: antiquated, out of fashion, old-fashioned |
| passe-droit {m} | :: (unwarranted) favour, favouritism |
| passe-droit {m} | :: permission |
| passe en avant {f} [rugby] | :: forward pass |
| passéisme {m} | :: passeism (nostalgia for the past) |
| passéiste {adj} | :: passéist, backward-looking |
| passe-montagne {m} | :: balaclava |
| passe-plat {m} | :: hatch, opening for serving food |
| passeport {m} | :: passport (official document) |
| passer {v} | :: to go past |
| passer {v} | :: to cross (a border) |
| passer {v} [legal] | :: to pass |
| passer {v} | :: to spend (time) |
| passer {v} | :: to publish (a newspaper) |
| passer {vt} | :: to take, to sit (an exam or test) |
| passer {vi} | :: to pass (an exam or test) |
| passer {vt} [dated] | :: to pass (an exam or test) |
| passer {v} [public transportation] | :: to run |
| passer {v} | :: to exceed (a limit) |
| passer {v} | :: to percolate |
| passer {v} | :: to hand down, to pass on |
| passer {v} | :: to be allowed |
| passer {vi} | :: to pass, to go (between two entities) |
| passer {vt} | :: to show (a movie) |
| passer {v} | :: to go up (a grade) |
| passer {v} | :: to shift (change gear) |
| passer {v} | :: to go down |
| passer {v} | :: to go up |
| passer {v} | :: to stop by, to pop in |
| passer {v} | :: to pass away, to die |
| passer {v} [music] | :: to spin (e.g. a disk) |
| passer {v} [TV] | :: to show (be on television) |
| passer {v} [sports] | :: to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player) |
| passer {v} [athletics] | :: to pass (the relay baton) |
| passer {v} | :: to pass on (infect someone else with a disease) |
| passer {vt} | :: to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else) |
| passer {v} | :: to wipe, rub |
| passer {v} | :: to skip a go |
| passer {v} | :: to put (make something undergo something) |
| passer {v} [card games] | :: to pass (not play upon one's turn) |
| passer {vr} | :: to take place, to happen, to come to pass |
| passer {vr} [for time] | :: to go by |
| passer {vr} [with de] | :: to do without |
| passer à autre chose {v} [colloquial, figuratively] | :: to turn over a new leaf, to move on |
| passerage {f} | :: cress (of genus Lepidium) |
| passer à la casserole {v} [colloquial] | :: to kick the bucket, to die |
| passer à la casserole {v} [colloquial, of a woman] | :: to lose one's virginity; to get porked, to get fucked; to get raped |
| passer à l'acte {v} | :: to take action, to act |
| passer à l'acte {vi} | :: to act out |
| passer à la moulinette {v} [idiomatic] | :: to rip to shreds (mock severely) |
| passer à la trappe {v} [colloquial, figuratively] | :: to go down the drain, to be abandoned, to be forgotten about, to vanish into oblivion, to be left out, to go out the window |
| passer à tabac {v} | :: to beat thoroughly |
| passer au crible {vt} [figuratively] | :: to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb |
| passer au peigne fin {vt} | :: to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl |
| passer comme une lettre à la poste {v} [colloquial, simile] | :: To go very well, without a hitch; to hit the spot, to be just the thing |
| passer crème {v} [slang] | :: To go very well, without a hitch; to hit the spot, to be just the thing |
| passer de vie à trépas {v} [idiomatic] | :: to pass away, to die |
| passer du coq à l'âne {v} | :: to change subjects abruptly, to go from pillar to post, to hop from one subject to another, to jump from topic to topic |
| passereau {m} | :: sparrow |
| passereau {m} | :: passerine |
| passerelle {f} | :: footbridge |
| passerelle {f} [nautical] | :: bridge |
| passerelle {f} [aviation, nautical] | :: gangway, bridge |
| passerelle {f} [computing] | :: gateway |
| passer entre les mailles du filet {v} [figuratively] | :: to slip through the cracks, to fall through the cracks, to slip through the net |
| passerillage {m} | :: The exposure of cut bunches of grapes to the sun in order to increase the concentration of sugar prior to winemaking |
| passeriller {vt} [oenology] | :: to dry bunches of grapes by exposing them to the sun prior to winemaking |
| passer la main {v} [figuratively] | :: [à] to step down in favour of, to stand aside in favour of, to pass the mantle to, to pass the torch on to, to pass the baton on to, to hand the reins to; to hang up one's boots |
| passer l'arme à gauche {v} [colloquial] | :: to kick the bucket, to die |
| passer l'aspirateur {v} | :: to vacuum, to hoover |
| passer le flambeau {v} [figuratively] | :: [à] to step down in favour of, to stand aside in favour of, to pass the mantle to, to pass the torch on to, to pass the baton on to, to hand the reins to; to hang up one's boots |
| passer le relais {v} [figuratively] | :: [à] to step down in favour of, to stand aside in favour of, to pass the mantle to, to pass the torch on to, to pass the baton on to, to hand the reins to; to hang up one's boots |
| passer le Rubicon {v} [idiomatic] | :: to cross the Rubicon |
| passer les bornes {v} [rare] | :: alternative form of dépasser les bornes |
| passer outre {v} | :: to overlook |
| passer outre {v} | :: to ignore |
| passer outre {v} | :: to carry on regardless |
| passer par les armes {vt} | :: To execute by firing squad |
| passer par les mains {v} | :: to pass through the hands (of) |
| passer ses nerfs sur {v} [figuratively, colloquial] | :: to take it out on, to vent one's spleen on |
| passer sous le nez {v} [à] | :: [colloquial] to slip through someone's fingers, to slip past someone, to pass by someone (of an occasion, opportunity, etc.) |
| passer sur le billard {phrase} [literally] | :: To get passed on the operating table |
| passer sur le billard {phrase} [idiomatic] | :: To undergo a surgical procedure; To go under the knife |
| passer un savon {v} [à] | :: [colloquial] to tell off, to haul someone over the coals |
| passé simple {m} | :: the past historic |
| passé surcomposé {m} [grammar] | :: A past tense using two auxiliary verbs to conjugate |
| passe-temps {m} | :: hobby; pastime |
| passe-thé {m} | :: tea strainer, tea infuser |
| passette {f} | :: strainer |
| passeur {m} [sports] | :: passer |
| passeur {m} | :: ferryman |
| passeur {m} | :: smuggler; (drugs) courier |
| passeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of passeur |
| passez-moi l'expression {adv} | :: pardon my French, excuse my French |
| passibilité {f} | :: liability |
| passible {adj} | :: punishable (appropriate for punishment) |
| passif {m} [grammar] | :: the passive voice |
| passif {adj} | :: passive |
| passing {m} | :: [juggling] passing |
| passion {f} [countable and uncountable] | :: passion |
| passionnant {adj} | :: evoking passion or enthusiasm |
| passionné {adj} | :: passionate, impassioned |
| passionnel {adj} | :: passionate |
| passionnel {adj} | :: passion (attributive) |
| passionnellement {adv} | :: passionately |
| passionnément {adv} | :: passionately |
| passionner {v} | :: to impassionate, to motivate |
| passionner {vr} | :: [pour] to take an avid interest in |
| passivement {adv} | :: passively |
| passiver {vt} [grammar] | :: to make passive |
| passiver {vt} [chemistry] | :: to passivate |
| passivité {f} | :: passivity, passiveness |
| passoire {f} | :: sieve |
| passoire {f} | :: colander |
| Passot {prop} | :: surname |
| Passy {prop} | :: A district of Paris |
| pastafarisme {m} | :: Pastafarianism |
| pastaga {m} [slang] | :: pastis |
| pastel {m} | :: pastel |
| pastelliste {mf} | :: pastellist |
| pastenade {f} | :: synonym of panais |
| pastenague {f} | :: stingray |
| pastèque {f} | :: watermelon (plant) |
| pastèque {f} | :: watermelon (fruit) |
| pasteur {m} | :: shepherd |
| pasteur {m} | :: pastor, a title of Protestant ministers |
| Pasteur {prop} | :: surname |
| Pasteur {prop} | :: Louis Pasteur, French biologist |
| pasteuriser {v} | :: to pasteurise |
| pasticher {v} | :: to imitate, pastiche |
| pastillage {m} | :: The mounting of components on a printed circuit board |
| pastillage {m} | :: An ornament (such as a flower) mounted on a ceramic |
| pastille {f} [archaic] | :: small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air |
| pastille {f} | :: pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy) |
| pastille {f} | :: lozenge-shaped figure in a design |
| pastille {f} | :: The conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to |
| pastis {m} | :: pastis |
| pastis {m} [South East of France] | :: mess, difficult situation |
| pastophore {m} [historical] | :: pastophorus |
| pastoral {adj} | :: pastoral |
| pastoralement {adv} | :: pastorally |
| pastoralisme {m} | :: pastoralism |
| pastoraliste {adj} | :: pastoralist |
| pas touche {interj} [colloquial] | :: hands off! paws off! mitts off! |
| pastourelle {f} | :: feminine noun of pastoureau |
| pastrami {m} | :: pastrami |
| pas trop tôt {interj} [colloquial] | :: about time! |
| pat {m} [chess] | :: stalemate |
| PAT {prop} {f} [Quebec] | :: PAT ; Pointe-aux-Trembles - a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada |
| patache {f} | :: patache (carriage) |
| patachon {m} [historical] | :: coach driver (driver of a patache) |
| patagon {adj} | :: Patagonian |
| Patagonie {prop} {f} | :: Patagonia |
| pataphysicien {m} | :: pataphysician |
| pataphysicienne {f} | :: feminine noun of pataphysicien |
| pataphysique {f} [literature, humorously] | :: pataphysics (absurdist philosophy) |
| pataquès {m} | :: intrusive s, intrusive t (a type of speech error whereby a word-final /t/ or /s/ is pronounced for euphony, though it is not part of the word's spelling) |
| pataquès {m} | :: malapropism |
| pataquès {m} [colloquial] | :: jumble, muddle |
| Patara {prop} | :: Patara (ancient city in Lycia) |
| pataras {m} [nautical] | :: backstay |
| patassa {m} [Louisiana French, ] | :: perch |
| patate {f} [chiefly Canada, Louisiana French] | :: potato |
| patate douce {f} | :: sweet potato |
| pataterie {f} [Louisiana French, ] | :: a restaurant that specializes in serving french fries |
| patates pilées {fp} | :: mashed potatoes |
| patatoïdal {adj} | :: Having the lumpy, spherical form of a potato |
| patatoïde {m} | :: Any lumpy, spherical object more-or-less having the form of a potato |
| patatras {interj} | :: kerplunk |
| pataud {adj} | :: lumbering, lumpish |
| pataugeant {adj} | :: wading, paddling |
| pataugeoire {f} | :: wading pool |
| patauger {v} | :: to paddle, to wade (to walk in shallow water), to splash about |
| patch {f} [computing] | :: patch (piece of code used to fix a bug) |
| patchoulène {m} [organic compound] | :: patchoulene |
| patchouli {m} | :: patchouli (plant) |
| patchouli {m} | :: patchouli (oil) |
| patchwork {m} | :: patchwork |
| pâte {f} | :: paste |
| pâte {f} | :: pastry; dough; batter |
| pâte {f} [in the plural] | :: pastas |
| pâté {m} | :: paste |
| pâté {m} | :: pâté |
| pâte à choux {f} | :: choux pastry (light pastry) |
| pâte à dents {f} [Canada] | :: toothpaste |
| pâté à la viande {m} [food] | :: meat pie |
| pâté à la viande du Lac-St-Jean {m} [food] | :: tourtière |
| pâte à modeler {f} | :: modeling clay |
| pâte brisée {f} | :: pâte brisée |
| pâté chinois {m} | :: pâté chinois |
| pâté chinois {m} [Quebec] | :: shepherd's pie |
| pâté de maisons {m} | :: city block (part of town enclosed by streets) |
| pâtée {f} | :: any pet food in the form of a paste, such as cat food or dog food |
| pâte feuilletée {f} [cooking] | :: puff pastry (light, flaky pastry) |
| patelin {m} | :: backwater |
| patelin {m} | :: one-horse town |
| patelin {adj} | :: fawning; unctuous |
| patelle {f} | :: limpet |
| patemment {adv} [archaic or literary] | :: patently |
| Patenaude {prop} | :: surname |
| patène {f} | :: paten, diskos |
| patenôtre {f} [obsolete, religion] | :: the Lord's prayer |
| patenté {adj} | :: patented |
| patenté {adj} | :: licensed |
| patère {f} [archaeology] | :: patera |
| patère {f} | :: peg (a protrusion used to hang things on) |
| paternalisme {m} | :: paternalism |
| paternaliste {adj} | :: paternalist |
| paternel {adj} | :: paternal |
| paternellement {adv} | :: paternally |
| paternité {f} | :: fatherhood |
| paternité {f} | :: authorship |
| pâtes {fp} [usually plural] | :: pasta |
| pateter {v} [Switzerland] | :: to dawdle |
| pâteusement {adv} | :: doughily, mushily |
| pâteux {adj} | :: doughy, mushy |
| -pathe {suffix} | :: -path |
| pathétique {adj} | :: pathetic |
| pathétique {adj} | :: pathetic, contemptible |
| pathétiquement {adv} | :: pathetically |
| -pathie {suffix} | :: -pathy |
| pathogène {adj} | :: pathogenic |
| pathogénèse {f} | :: pathogenesis |
| pathogénie {f} | :: pathogeny |
| pathogénique {adj} [medicine] | :: pathogenic |
| pathologie {f} | :: pathology |
| pathologique {adj} | :: pathological; pathologic |
| pathologiquement {adv} | :: pathologically |
| pathologiste {mf} | :: pathologist (expert in pathology) |
| patibulaire {adj} | :: sinister |
| patidar {m} | :: Patidar |
| patiemment {adv} | :: patiently |
| patience {f} | :: Patience |
| patient {adj} | :: patient |
| patient {m} | :: a patient, an outpatient |
| patiente {f} | :: feminine singular of patient |
| patientèle {f} [neologism] | :: all the patients of a medical practitioner; patient base, body of patients |
| patienter {v} | :: to be patient |
| patienter {v} | :: to wait patiently |
| patin {m} | :: slipper |
| patin {m} | :: skate; blade; runner |
| patin {m} [mechanics] | :: brake shoe; brake pad |
| patin {m} [slang] | :: French kiss |
| patinage {m} | :: skating |
| patinage {m} | :: ice-skating |
| patinage {m} | :: roller skating |
| patinage {m} | :: loss of traction (of a motor vehicle) |
| patinage à glace {m} | :: ice skating |
| patinage à roues alignées {m} | :: in-line skating |
| patinage à roulettes {m} | :: rollerskating |
| patinage artistique {m} | :: figure skating |
| patinage de vitesse {m} | :: speed skating (the sport of racing around an oval course on ice skates) |
| patinage synchronisé {m} | :: synchronized skating [US] / synchronised skating [UK] |
| patin à glace {m} [uncountable] | :: ice skating |
| patin à glace {m} [countable] | :: ice skate |
| patin à quatre roues {m} | :: old-style four-wheel rollerskate |
| patin à roues alignées {m} | :: inline skate (inline rollerskate) |
| patin à roulettes {m} | :: roller skate |
| patin à roulettes quatre roues {m} | :: old-style four-wheel rollerskate |
| patine {f} | :: patina, an oxidation like on bronze or similar effect |
| patiner {vi} | :: to ice-skate |
| patiner {vt} | :: to falter |
| patineur {m} | :: skater |
| patineuse {f} | :: feminine noun of patineur |
| patinoire {f} | :: skating rink |
| patio {m} | :: patio |
| pâtir {v} [literary] | :: to suffer |
| pâtisser {vi} [dated] | :: to make pastry |
| pâtisser {vt} [dated, of cakes and pastry] | :: to bake something |
| patisserie {f} [Canada] | :: cake shop |
| patisserie {f} [Canada] | :: the pastries produced by a patissier |
| pâtisserie {f} | :: cakeshop |
| pâtisserie {f} | :: the pastries produced by a patissier |
| pâtissier {adj} [attributive] | :: pastry |
| pâtissier {m} | :: pastrymaker |
| pâtissière {f} | :: female pastrymaker |
| patissoie {f} | :: Variant of pâtissoie |
| pâtissoie {f} | :: An eighteenth-century silkenDictionnaire universel de la langue françoise, P.C.V. Boiste, 1803, Paris, Desray, p. 589 |
| pâtisson {m} | :: pattypan squash |
| Patmos {prop} | :: Patmos (island of Greece) |
| patois {m} | :: patois (French dialect) |
| patois {m} | :: patois (any regional dialect) |
| patois {m} [Louisiana French] | :: saying, maxim, proverb, adage |
| patoisant {adj} | :: Characteristic of a patois |
| patoisant {adj} | :: Speaking in a patois |
| patoisement {adv} | :: (speaking) in a patois |
| patoisement {m} | :: The formation of a patois |
| patoiser {vi} | :: to speak in patois |
| pâton {m} | :: A piece of dough to be kneaded in breadmaking |
| patou {m} | :: Pyrenean mountain dog |
| patouner {v} | :: Of cats: to knead with the paws |
| patraque {adj} | :: out of sorts, under the weather |
| pâtre {m} [literary, poetic] | :: shepherd, herdsman |
| patriarcal {adj} | :: patriarchal |
| patriarcalement {adv} | :: patriarchally |
| patriarcat {m} | :: patriarchate |
| patriarche {m} | :: patriarch |
| patrice {m} [antiquity] | :: patrician |
| Patrice {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| Patricia {prop} | :: given name |
| patriciat {m} | :: patriciate |
| patricien {adj} | :: patrician |
| patricien {m} [historical] | :: patrician |
| Patrick {prop} | :: given name, the English form of Patrice, quite popular in France |
| patrie {f} | :: homeland, home country, country of origin, fatherland |
| patrilatéral {adj} | :: patrilateral |
| patrilatéralement {adv} | :: patrilaterally |
| patrimoine {m} | :: patrimony, estate |
| patrimoine {m} | :: heritage |
| patrimoine {m} | :: capital, holdings |
| patrimonial {adj} | :: patrimonial |
| patrimonialement {adv} | :: patrimonially |
| patriotard {adj} | :: Excessively nationalistic; flag-waving; chauvinistic |
| patriote {mf} | :: patriot |
| patriote {adj} | :: patriotic |
| Patriote {m} [Canada] | :: Patriote (Lower Canada Rebellion) |
| Patriote {m} [Canada] | :: Patriot (Upper Canada Rebellion) |
| patriotique {adj} | :: patriotic |
| patriotiquement {adv} | :: patriotically |
| patriotisme {m} | :: patriotism |
| Patrocle {prop} {m} [Greek mythology] | :: Patroclus |
| patron {m} | :: boss, employer |
| patron {m} [sewing and knitting] | :: pattern |
| patronage {m} | :: Patronage |
| patronal {adj} [attributive] | :: saint |
| patronal {adj} [attributive] | :: relating to an employer |
| patronat {m} | :: management |
| patronne {f} | :: (female) owner |
| patronne {f} | :: madame (of a brothel) |
| patronner {vt} | :: to sponsor |
| patronnesse {adj} | :: only used in dame patronesse |
| patronyme {m} | :: surname; patronym |
| patronymique {adj} | :: patronymic |
| patrouille {f} | :: patrol |
| patrouiller {vi} | :: to patrol |
| patrouilleur {m} | :: soldier on patrol |
| patrouilleur {m} | :: patrol boat |
| patrouilleur {m} | :: spotter plane |
| patte {f} | :: paw [of animal] |
| patte {f} | :: leg [of animal] |
| patte {f} [anatomy, colloquial] | :: leg [of human] |
| patté {adj} [heraldry] | :: (in feminine form) Narrow at the inner end, and very broad at the other end, or having its arms of that shape; said of a cross |
| patte-d’oie {f} | :: A point where a road splits into one or more other roads, or many roads join into one |
| patte-d’oie {f} | :: crow's feet (wrinkles at the corners of the eye) |
| pattemouille {f} | :: damp cloth used in ironing |
| pattes d'éléphant {fp} | :: bell-bottoms |
| pattes d'eph {fp} [colloquial] | :: clipping of pattes d'éléphant |
| pâturage {m} | :: pasture; meadow |
| pâture {f} | :: grazing food for livestock |
| pâture {f} | :: pasture (field full of such food) |
| pâturer {v} | :: to graze; to pasture |
| pâturin {m} | :: grass; any plant belonging to the taxonomical family Poaceae |
| paturon {m} | :: pastern |
| Pau {prop} | :: Pau |
| pauchouse {f} | :: A dish of freshwater fish cut into pieces and cooked in white wine |
| Paul {prop} | :: Paul (biblical figure) |
| Paul {prop} | :: given name |
| Paule {prop} | :: given name, feminine form of Paul |
| Paulette {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| paulien {adj} [legal, of an action] | :: taken against a fraudulent debtor |
| Paulin {prop} | :: given name, rare today |
| Paulin {prop} | :: surname |
| Pauline {prop} {f} | :: given name derived from Latin Paulina |
| pauliste {adj} [religion] | :: Paulist (specifically a member of a missionary society founded in New York in 1885) |
| pauliste {adj} | :: of or relating to São Paulo, Brazil |
| Pauliste {mf} | :: A person residing in São Paulo, Brazil |
| paullinique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: paullinic |
| paume {f} [anatomy] | :: palm (of hand) |
| paumé {adj} | :: lost |
| paumé {adj} | :: out of one's depth |
| paumé {adj} | :: godforsaken |
| paumer {v} [obsolete] | :: to strike, hit |
| paumer {v} [colloquial] | :: to lose |
| paupérisation {f} | :: pauperization |
| paupériser {vt} | :: to pauperize |
| paupérisme {m} | :: pauperism |
| paupière {f} | :: eyelid |
| paupiette {f} | :: paupiette, (veal) olive |
| paurométabole {m} | :: paurometabole |
| paurométabole {adj} | :: paurometabolous |
| -pause {suffix} | :: -pause |
| pause {f} | :: pause, break |
| pause {f} [music] | :: rest |
| pause-café {f} | :: coffee break |
| pause-déjeuner {f} | :: lunchbreak |
| pause thé {f} | :: tea break |
| pauvre {adj} | :: poor (financially deprived) |
| pauvre {adj} | :: lacking, scanty |
| pauvre {adj} | :: poor, pitiable |
| pauvre {m} | :: poor person; pauper |
| pauvre comme Job {adj} [simile] | :: extremely poor; poor as a church mouse |
| pauvrement {adv} | :: poorly |
| pauvresse {f} | :: feminine singular of pauvre |
| pauvret {m} | :: poor little thing term of commiseration |
| pauvreté {f} | :: poverty |
| pauvrette {f} | :: poor little thing term of commiseration |
| pauvrissime {adj} | :: Very poor |
| pavage {m} | :: paving (paved surface, art of constructing such a surface) |
| pavane {mf} | :: pavane |
| pavaner {vr} | :: to strut one's stuff |
| Pavard {prop} | :: surname |
| pavé {m} | :: cobblestone |
| pavé {m} | :: cobblestone street |
| pavé {m} [geometry] | :: parallelepiped |
| pavé {m} | :: pavé (rectangular food) |
| pavé {m} [colloquial] | :: a thick book |
| pavement {m} | :: paving |
| pavement {m} | :: tiled floor |
| paver {v} | :: to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar |
| paver {v} [Canada, Quebec] | :: to pave in any sense (including with asphalt, etc.) |
| pavesan {adj} | :: Of or from Pavia (in Italy) |
| pavesan {adj} | :: Of or from Pavie (in the Midi-Pyrénées) |
| pavé tactile {m} | :: touchpad (flat surface which is sensitive to touch) |
| paveur {m} | :: paver |
| paveur {m} | :: paving company |
| Pavie {prop} {f} | :: Pavia |
| Pavie {prop} {f} | :: A town in the Gers department of Midi-Pyrénées |
| pavillon {m} | :: pavilion (tent, structure, ear part) |
| pavillon {m} | :: ensign, flag (nautical flag) |
| pavillon {m} | :: house, villa, lodge |
| pavillon {m} [music] | :: bell (part of brass instrument) |
| pavillon {m} [heraldry] | :: pavilion |
| pavillon {m} [nautical] | :: colours |
| pavillonnaire {adj} | :: pavilioned |
| pavillon noir {m} | :: Jolly Roger (skull flag) |
| pavlovien {adj} | :: Pavlovian (of or relating to the theories of Ivan Pavlov) |
| pavois {m} | :: buckler, shield |
| pavois {m} [nautical] | :: bulwark |
| pavoisement {m} [nautical] | :: bunting |
| pavoiser {vt} | :: to deck with flags |
| pavot {m} | :: poppy (the flower) |
| pawnee {m} | :: the Pawnee language |
| paxon {m} | :: alternative form of pacson |
| payant {adj} | :: paying, which pays |
| payant {adj} | :: not free, not free of charge, nonfree, that costs money, that charges money, paid (as in paid service) |
| payant {adj} | :: fruitful, that pays off |
| paye {f} | :: salary, pay |
| paye {f} | :: payment |
| paye {f} [dated] | :: payer, someone who pays |
| paye {f} [colloquial] | :: ages, a long time |
| payement {m} | :: alternative spelling of paiement |
| payer {vt} | :: to pay (for) |
| payer {vt} | :: to pay (someone) |
| payer {v} | :: pay for (suffer the consequences of something) |
| payer {v} | :: to pay off (to be fruitful) |
| payer cher {v} [colloquial] | :: to pay dearly |
| payer de sa poche {v} [figuratively] | :: to pay out of one's own pocket |
| payer les pots cassés {v} | :: to pay the piper, to pay the price, to pay the penalty, to be left to pick up the pieces, to be left holding the baby |
| Payet {prop} | :: surname |
| Payette {prop} | :: surname |
| payeur {m} | :: payer (someone who pays) |
| payeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of payeur |
| pays {m} | :: land, country, region |
| pays {m} [politics, geography] | :: country |
| paysage {m} | :: countryside |
| paysage {m} | :: landscape |
| paysager {adj} [attributive] | :: landscape |
| paysager {adj} [attributive] | :: countryside; country |
| paysager {v} | :: to do landscaping; to landscape |
| paysagiste {mf} | :: a land artist |
| paysagiste {mf} | :: a landscape designer, a landscape gardener |
| paysagiste {mf} | :: an artist who specialises in painting the country |
| paysan {m} | :: a peasant |
| paysan {m} | :: someone who lives in the country; ruralite |
| paysan {m} [pejorative] | :: a country bumpkin |
| paysannat {m} | :: peasantry |
| paysanne {f} | :: feminine noun of paysan |
| paysannerie {f} | :: peasantry |
| Pays-Bas {prop} {mp} | :: the Netherlands |
| Pays de Galles {prop} {m} | :: Wales |
| Pays de la Loire {prop} {fp} | :: Pays de la Loire (region of France) |
| pays d'état {m} [historical] | :: pays d'état |
| pays développé {m} [economics] | :: developed country |
| pays du Soleil Levant {prop} {m} [periphrasis] | :: the Land of the Rising Sun (Japan) |
| pays du Soleil-Levant {prop} {m} | :: alternative spelling of pays du Soleil Levant |
| pays en voie de développement {m} [economics] | :: developing country |
| pb {n} [colloquial] | :: short for problème |
| PC {abbr} [journalism, in Canada] | :: CP initialism of Presse canadienne (Canadian Press) |
| PCC {prop} [initialism] | :: [Canada, politics] Parti conservateur du Canada - Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) |
| PCUS {prop} {mf} [history, politics] | :: CPSU (initialism of Partie Communiste de la Union Soviétique) |
| PCV {m} | :: reverse charge call (UK), collect call (US) |
| PD {m} [vulgar, offensive] | :: fag; queer (male homosexual) |
| PDG {mf} | :: CEO [US, Canada] (chief executive officier) or MD [UK] (managing director) or president - initialism of président directeur général {m} or présidente directrice générale {f} |
| PdP {f} [France, meteorology] | :: POP (probability of precipitation) abbreviation of probabilité de précipitation |
| PDP {f} [Canada, meteorology] | :: POP (probability of precipitation) abbreviation of probabilité de précipitations |
| PDQ {m} | :: abbreviation of poste de quartier |
| PDS {m} | :: SRP (suggested retail price) initialism of prix de détail suggéré |
| PDSC {m} | :: MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail price) initialism of prix de détail suggéré du constructeur |
| PDSF {m} | :: MSRP (manufacturer's suggested retail price) initialism of prix de détail suggéré par le fabricant |
| pdt {f} | :: abbreviation of pomme de terre |
| PDT {f} | :: abbreviation of pomme de terre |
| pé {m} | :: letter: p |
| peacekeeper {m} [Canada, law enforcement] | :: peacekeeper [peace officer from an aboriginal Canadian community] |
| péage {m} [transport] | :: toll, payment |
| péage {m} [transport] | :: toll booth |
| péage {m} [internet] | :: paywall |
| péager {m} | :: A person who receives a toll or manages a toll booth |
| péagère {f} | :: feminine singular of péager |
| péan {m} | :: paean |
| pearcéite {m} [mineral] | :: pearceite |
| peau {f} | :: skin of a person or animal |
| peau {f} | :: hide, fur |
| peau {f} | :: skin (protective outer layer of a plant or fruit) |
| peau {f} | :: pellicule formed on top of certain prepared foods |
| peau de banane {f} | :: banana peel |
| peau de vache {f} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: battle axe, cat, nasty piece of work |
| peaufinage {m} | :: fine-tuning |
| peaufinement {m} | :: fine-tuning |
| peaufiner {v} | :: to fine-tune |
| peau-rouge {m} | :: Red Indian |
| peau-rouge {adj} | :: Amerindian |
| PEB {acronym} [acronym] | :: [library science] a system enabling a library to borrow a document from another library to make it available for a registered reader |
| pébioctet {m} | :: pebibyte |
| pébrine {f} | :: pébrine |
| pébroc {m} [colloquial, France] | :: umbrella |
| pébroque {m} [colloquial, France] | :: umbrella |
| pec {m} [colloquial, usually plural] | :: pec (pectoralis major muscle) |
| pécari {m} | :: peccary (a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos) |
| peccadille {f} | :: peccadillo (small sin or error) |
| péché {m} [religion] | :: sin |
| péché {m} | :: sin |
| pêche {f} [countable] | :: peach |
| pêche {f} [uncountable] | :: fishing, angling |
| pêche à la mouche {f} | :: fly fishing (form of angling) |
| pêche blanche {f} | :: ice fishing |
| péché capital {m} [theology] | :: deadly sin (any of the seven deadly sins) |
| péché mignon {m} | :: guilty pleasure, little weakness, little indulgence |
| péché originel {m} [Christianity] | :: original sin (the state of sin, present in each human at birth, that is a direct result of Adam's disobedience to God) |
| péché philosophique {m} | :: sexual deviancy; sodomy |
| pécher {v} | :: to sin |
| pêcher {v} | :: to fish |
| pêcher {m} | :: peach tree |
| pécheresse {f} | :: feminine noun of pécheur; sinner |
| pêcherie {f} | :: fishery |
| pêche sous la glace {f} | :: ice fishing |
| pêche sur glace {f} | :: ice fishing |
| Pecheur {prop} | :: surname |
| pécheur {adj} | :: sinning; sinful |
| pécheur {m} | :: sinner |
| pêcheur {m} | :: fisher |
| pêcheuse {f} | :: feminine noun of pêcheur |
| pécho {v} [slang, backslang] | :: to nab, catch |
| pécho {v} [slang] | :: to hook up with, get off with |
| pécore {f} | :: a small farm animal (not necessarily a sheep) |
| pécore {mf} | :: blockhead (stupid person) |
| pécore {mf} | :: peasant |
| pectique {adj} | :: pectic |
| pectocellulosique {adj} | :: pectocellulosic |
| pectolytique {adj} [biochemistry] | :: pectolytic |
| pectoral {m} [anatomy] | :: pectoral |
| pectoral {adj} [anatomy] | :: pectoral |
| pectosique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pectosic |
| péculat {m} | :: peculation |
| péculativement {adv} | :: peculatively |
| pécule {m} | :: savings, nest egg |
| pécuniaire {adj} | :: pecuniary, financial |
| pécuniairement {adv} | :: financially, pecuniarily |
| pédagogie {f} | :: pedagogy; education |
| pédagogie {f} | :: learning |
| pédagogique {adj} | :: pedagogic, pedagogical |
| pédagogique {adj} | :: educational |
| pédagogique {adj} | :: instructional |
| pédagogiquement {adv} | :: pedagogically |
| pédagogue {mf} | :: pedagogue; educator |
| pédagogue {mf} | :: teacher |
| pédal {adj} [anatomy] | :: pedal |
| pédalage {m} | :: the action or the result of pedalling |
| pédale {f} | :: pedal (of bicycle) |
| pédale {f} [music] | :: pedal (of piano, organ etc.) |
| pédale {f} [offensive] | :: queer, homo (homosexual man) |
| pédaler {v} | :: to pedal (a bicycle) |
| pédale wha wha {f} | :: wah-wah pedal |
| pédalier {m} | :: pedalboard |
| pédalier {m} [cycling] | :: chainset, crankset |
| pédalo {m} [watercraft] | :: pedalo |
| pédant {m} [obsolete] | :: schoolmaster |
| pédant {m} | :: pedant; pretentious person |
| pédant {adj} | :: pedantic |
| pedante {f} | :: obsolete spelling of pédante |
| pédanterie {f} | :: pedantry |
| pédantesque {adj} | :: pedantic |
| pédantesquement {adv} | :: pedantically |
| pédantisme {m} | :: pedantry |
| pédantisme {m} | :: pretentiousness |
| pédé {m} [vulgar, offensive, pejorative, slang] | :: fag; queer (male homosexual) |
| pédéraste {m} | :: pederast |
| pédéraste {m} [archaic] | :: homosexual |
| pédérastie {f} | :: pederasty |
| pédérastique {adj} | :: pederastic |
| pédestre {adj} | :: walking (of e.g. an animal, that moves by walking) |
| pédestre {adj} [of a artpiece] | :: representing someone walking |
| pédestre {adj} | :: pedestrian (simple) |
| pédestre {adj} [of an activity] | :: walking, involving walking, on foot |
| pédestrement {adv} | :: pedestrianly |
| pédiatre {mf} | :: pediatrician (physician who specialises in pediatrics) |
| pédiatrie {f} | :: pediatrics |
| pédiatrique {adj} | :: pediatric |
| pédicelle {f} | :: pedicel |
| pédicule {m} [anatomy] | :: pedicel |
| pédiculose {f} [pathology] | :: pediculosis |
| pédicure {mf} | :: chiropodist, podiatrist |
| pédieux {adj} [anatomy] | :: pedal |
| pédigrée {f} | :: pedigree |
| pédiluve {m} | :: footbath |
| pédipalpe {f} | :: pedipalp |
| pédocriminel {m} | :: A criminal pedophile |
| pédocriminelle {f} | :: feminine singular of pédocriminel |
| pédofaune {f} | :: pedofauna (soil fauna) |
| pédogenèse {f} [biology, geology] | :: pedogenesis |
| pédogéochimique {adj} | :: pedogeochemical |
| pédogéologique {adj} [geology] | :: pedogeological |
| pédologie {f} | :: pedology |
| pédologique {adj} | :: pedologic, pedological |
| pédologiquement {adv} | :: pedologically |
| pédoncule {m} [anatomy, zoology] | :: peduncle |
| pédonculé {adj} | :: pedunculate |
| pédoncule caudal {m} | :: caudal peduncle |
| pédophile {adj} | :: pedophiliac |
| pédophile {mf} | :: pedophile, paedophile |
| pédophilie {f} | :: pedophilia |
| pédopornographie {f} | :: child pornography |
| pédopsychiatre {mf} | :: pedopsychiatrist |
| pedzouille {m} | :: A peasant, bumpkin, yokel |
| Pégase {prop} {m} | :: Pegasus (mythical winged horse) |
| Pégase {prop} {m} | :: Pegasus (constellation) |
| Peggy {prop} | :: given name borrowed from English, popular in the 1970s |
| pegmatitique {adj} [mineralogy] | :: pegmatitic |
| pègre {f} | :: underworld |
| peignage {m} | :: combing (of wool or other fibre) |
| peigne {m} | :: comb (toothed implement) |
| peigne-cul {m} | :: asshole, jerk |
| peigner {v} | :: to comb |
| peignoir {m} | :: cape (long light clothing used to protect the clothes in e.g. a barber) |
| peignoir {m} | :: bathrobe |
| peignoir {m} | :: nightdress |
| peilles {fp} | :: rags used to make paper |
| peinard {adj} [colloquial] | :: tranquil, carefree, cushy |
| peinardement {adv} | :: tranquilly |
| peindre {vt} | :: to paint |
| peine {f} | :: pain |
| peine {f} | :: effort, trouble |
| peine {f} | :: sorrow |
| peine {adv} | :: barely, hardly; used only in the phrase à peine |
| peine capitale {f} | :: capital punishment (punishment by death) |
| peine de mort {f} | :: capital punishment, death penalty |
| peine perdue {f} | :: lost cause |
| peiner {v} | :: to struggle, toil |
| peiner {v} | :: to cause pain to, afflict |
| peintre {mf} | :: painter (artist) |
| peinture {f} | :: painting |
| peinture {f} | :: painting, canvas |
| peinture {f} | :: vivid description |
| peinture {f} | :: paint |
| peinturer {v} [Canada] | :: to paint |
| peinturer {v} [France] | :: to paint like a child, in a way lacking grace and dexterity |
| peinturlurer {v} | :: to daub |
| péjoratif {adj} | :: pejorative |
| péjorativement {adv} | :: pejoratively |
| pejvakine {f} [protein] | :: pejvakin |
| pékan {m} | :: fisher (mammal) |
| pékin {m} [textiles] | :: Pekin (type of patterned silk) |
| Pékin {prop} {m} | :: Beijing |
| pékinois {adj} | :: Pekingese (of or from Peking (Beijing)) |
| pékinois {m} | :: Pekinese (dog) |
| Pékinois {m} | :: Pekinese (native or inhabitant of Pekin (Beijing)) |
| Pékinoise {f} | :: feminine noun of Pékinois |
| pelade {f} [pathology] | :: alopecia |
| Péladeau {prop} | :: surname |
| pelage {m} | :: fur |
| pélagien {adj} | :: Pelagian |
| pélagique {adj} | :: pelagic |
| pélargonate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: pelargonate |
| pélargonique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pelargonic |
| pélargonium {m} | :: pelargonium (flower of the genus Pelargonium) |
| pelé {adj} | :: bare; (of animal) mangy |
| pêle-mêle {adv} | :: any old how, at random, chaotically, pell-mell |
| pêle-mêle {m} | :: disorder, confusion |
| pêle-mêle {m} | :: multiple photo frame |
| pêlemêle {m} | :: alternative form of pêle-mêle |
| peler {v} | :: to peel |
| pèlerin {m} | :: pilgrim |
| pèlerinage {m} | :: pilgrimage (religious journey, or one to a sacred place) |
| pélerine {f} | :: cape |
| pèlerine {f} | :: feminine noun of pèlerin |
| pèlerine {f} | :: cape |
| péleriner {v} | :: alternative spelling of pèleriner |
| pèleriner {v} | :: to go on a pilgrimage |
| pélican {m} | :: pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae) |
| pelisse {f} | :: pelisse |
| pellagre {f} [pathology] | :: pellagra |
| pellagreux {adj} | :: pellagrous |
| pelle {f} | :: shovel, spade |
| pelle {f} | :: dustpan |
| pelle {f} | :: fluke (anchor blade) |
| pelle {f} [slang] | :: French kiss |
| pelle à tarte {f} | :: cake slice, cake server |
| Pellegrin {prop} | :: surname |
| peller {v} | :: to shovel (to move materials with a shovel) |
| pelletée {f} | :: spadeful, shovelful |
| pelleter {vt} | :: to shovel (up) |
| pelleterie {f} | :: peltry |
| pelleterie {f} | :: fur tannery |
| pelleteuse {f} | :: digger (a large piece of machinery that digs up holes) |
| pelletier {m} | :: furrier |
| Pelletier {prop} | :: surname |
| pelletiser {v} | :: To pelletize |
| pelletiseur {m} | :: pelletizer |
| pelliculaire {adj} | :: dandruff (etc) (attributive) |
| pellicule {f} | :: film, skin, thin layer |
| pellicules {fp} | :: dandruff |
| pélopium {m} [obsolete] | :: A metallic element subsequently shown to be technetium |
| Péloponnèse {prop} {m} | :: Peloponnese (region of Greece) |
| pelote {f} | :: ball (e.g. of string, wire) |
| pelote {f} | :: pelota (sport) |
| pelote {f} | :: droppings (animal waste) |
| pelote {f} | :: ball (in the game of jeu de paume) |
| pelote {f} [Quebec, slang] | :: pussy (female genitalia) |
| pelote {f} [Louisiana French, ] | :: a ball; a football |
| pelote basque {f} | :: Basque pelota |
| peloter {v} [archaic] | :: to wind, roll etc. into a ball |
| peloter {v} [colloquial] | :: to touch up, feel up (sexually) |
| peloter {vr} [colloquial, se peloter] | :: to make out |
| peloton {m} | :: small ball (of thread etc.) |
| peloton {m} [military] | :: platoon |
| peloton {m} | :: pack, bunch (of cyclists etc.) |
| peloton d'exécution {m} | :: firing squad (a group of soldiers detailed to execute someone or to discharge weapons ceremonially) |
| pelotonner {vt} | :: To wind up into a ball |
| pelotonner {vr} | :: To curl up into a ball |
| pelouse {f} | :: lawn |
| pelouse {f} [racing] | :: public enclosure |
| pelouse {f} [rugby, soccer] | :: field, ground |
| Peltier {prop} | :: surname, notably of Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, French physicist who discovered the Peltier effect |
| peluche {f} | :: plush (toy), fluff |
| pelucher {v} | :: to fluff up, become fluffy |
| pelucheux {adj} | :: fluffy |
| pelure {f} | :: peel, rind (of a fruit) |
| pelure {f} | :: skin (of an onion) |
| pelvien {adj} | :: pelvic |
| pelvigraphie {f} | :: pelvigraphy |
| pélycosaure {m} | :: pelycosaur |
| penaille {f} | :: an assembly of monks |
| penaille {f} | :: rags, tatters |
| pénal {adj} | :: penal, criminal (of, or relating to crimes) |
| pénalement {adv} | :: penally |
| pénalisant {adj} | :: penalizing |
| pénalisation {f} [sports] | :: penalty |
| pénalisation {f} | :: penalizing |
| pénaliser {v} | :: to penalize |
| pénaliser {v} | :: to criminalize |
| pénaliste {mf} [legal] | :: criminal lawyer |
| pénalité {f} | :: penalty (punishment) |
| pénalité {f} [rugby] | :: penalty (free-kick) |
| pénalité {f} [rugby] | :: penalty (scoring of penalty) |
| penalty {m} [sports] | :: penalty, penalty kick |
| pénalty {m} [sports] | :: alternative spelling of penalty |
| pénard {adj} | :: alternative form of peinard |
| pénardement {adv} | :: alternative form of peinardement |
| pénates {mp} [historical] | :: household gods, penates |
| pénates {mp} [colloquial] | :: home |
| penaud {adj} | :: sheepish, shamefaced |
| penaudement {adv} | :: sheepishly |
| penchant {m} | :: penchant |
| pencher {vt} | :: to tilt, tip up |
| pencher {vi} | :: to lean, list |
| pencher {vi} | :: to lean towards (an opinion, idea etc.); to be inclined (to do something) |
| pencher {vr} | :: to bend down, lean over |
| pencher {vr} | :: to look into |
| pendable {adj} | :: that merits hanging |
| pendable {adj} | :: that deserves to be hanged |
| pendage {m} [geology] | :: (angle of) dip |
| pendaison {f} | :: hanging (of something or someone) |
| pendaison de crémaillère {f} | :: housewarming |
| pendant {adj} | :: hanging |
| pendant {m} | :: stone that dangles on earrings |
| pendant {m} | :: match, counterpart |
| pendant {prep} | :: during, throughout, for the duration of |
| pendant que {conj} | :: while, whilst, as |
| pendard {m} | :: gallows bird, rascal, one who deserves to hang |
| pendarde {f} | :: feminine noun of pendard |
| pendeloque {f} | :: pendant |
| pendentif {m} [jewelry] | :: pendant |
| pendentif {m} [architecture] | :: pendentive |
| penderie {f} | :: wardrobe |
| pendiller {vi} | :: to dangle |
| pendjabi {m} | :: The Punjabi language |
| pendouiller {v} | :: to dangle |
| pendre {vit} | :: to hang |
| pendre {vi} | :: to sag, droop |
| pendre la crémaillère {v} [idiomatic] | :: to have a housewarming party |
| pendu {m} | :: person condemned to be hanged |
| pendu {m} | :: person killed by hanging |
| pendu {m} | :: [le pendu] hangman (pen and paper game) |
| pendu {m} | :: hanged man (tarot card) |
| pendulaire {adj} | :: pendular |
| pendulaire {adj} | :: tilting (on its axis) |
| pendulaire {mf} [Switzerland] | :: commuter |
| pendule {m} | :: pendulum |
| pendule {f} | :: pendulum clock |
| pendulette {f} | :: small clock |
| pénectomie {f} [surgery] | :: penectomy |
| Pénélope {prop} {f} [Greek mythology] | :: Penelope (wife of Odysseus) |
| Pénélope {prop} {f} | :: given name |
| Penelopegate {prop} {m} | :: The Fillon affair |
| Pénélopegate {prop} {m} | :: alt form Penelopegate |
| pénéplaine {f} [geomorphology] | :: peneplain |
| pénétrabilité {f} | :: penetrability |
| pénétrable {adj} | :: penetrable |
| pénétramment {adv} | :: penetratingly |
| pénétrant {adj} | :: penetrant, penetrating |
| pénétratif {adj} | :: penetrative |
| pénétration {f} | :: penetration |
| pénétrativement {adv} | :: penetratively |
| pénétrer {vt} | :: to enter, to get in (to) |
| pénétrer {v} | :: to penetrate |
| pénétrer {v} | :: to see through somebody's lies or secret plans |
| pénétrer {v} | :: to penetrate (to enter sexually; to engage in penetrative sex) |
| pénétromètre {m} | :: penetrometer |
| Penha {prop} {m} | :: Penha (placename) |
| Penha {prop} {m} | :: Penha (São Paulo, Brazil) |
| pénibilité {f} | :: hardness, strenuousness, severity |
| pénible {adj} | :: painful, hard, displeasing |
| pénible {adj} | :: annoying (about someone) |
| péniblement {adv} | :: horribly; awfully |
| péniche {f} | :: barge |
| pénicillamine {f} | :: penicillamine |
| pénicillé {adj} [biology] | :: penicillate |
| pénicilline {f} | :: penicillin |
| pénicillium {m} [biology] | :: penicillium |
| pénien {adj} | :: penile |
| pénil {m} | :: mons veneris, mons |
| péninsulaire {adj} | :: peninsular |
| péninsule {f} | :: peninsula |
| péninsule ibérique {prop} {f} | :: Iberian Peninsula |
| pénis {m} | :: penis |
| pénitence {f} | :: penance |
| pénitencier {m} | :: penitentiary, prison |
| pénitencier {m} [Roman Catholic Church] | :: a priest who administers the sacrament of absolution |
| pénitent {adj} | :: penitent |
| pénitent {m} | :: penitent (one who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions) |
| pénitentiaire {adj} | :: penitentiary |
| pénitentiel {adj} | :: penitential |
| pénitentiel {adj} | :: penitant |
| penne {f} | :: large feather |
| penne {f} | :: penne (pasta) |
| penné {adj} [botany] | :: pinnate |
| penniforme {adj} | :: penniform |
| pennine {m} [mineralogy] | :: penninite (A double silicate of aluminium and magnesium) |
| pennon {m} | :: pennon (triangular flag) |
| pennon {m} [nautical] | :: pennant |
| pennon {m} [historical] | :: a local urban militia in medieval Lyon |
| pennonage {m} | :: The right to use a particular pennon |
| pennonage {m} | :: The pennon of a particular locality |
| Pennsylvanie {prop} {f} | :: Pennsylvania |
| penny {m} | :: penny |
| pénologie {f} | :: penology |
| pénombre {f} | :: penumbra |
| pénombre {f} | :: half-light, twilight |
| pensable {adj} | :: thinkable; considerable (worthy of being considered) |
| pensant {adj} | :: thinking |
| pense-bête {m} [colloquial] | :: reminder |
| pensée {f} | :: a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246) |
| pensée {f} | :: reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century) |
| pensée {f} [in the expression “être en pensée”] | :: worry, concern (late 12th century) |
| pensée {f} | :: the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200) |
| pensée {f} [obsolete] | :: amorous attachment (c. 1200) |
| pensée {f} | :: manner of thinking (c. 1215) |
| pensée {f} | :: an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332) |
| pensée {f} | :: the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644) |
| pensée {f} | :: moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century) |
| pensée {f} | :: an operation of the mind (since 1636) |
| pensée {f} | :: idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621) |
| pensée {f} | :: thinking, worldview of an author |
| pensée {f} | :: a pansy (plant) (c. 1460) |
| penser {vi} | :: to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on something |
| penser {vi} | :: to estimate, imagine, believe |
| penser {v} [originally with a que sentence] | :: to be of the opinion that, believe |
| penser {vi} | :: to be absorbed by a worry or depressing thoughts |
| penser {vi} | :: to conceive a project |
| penser {v} [with de + object] | :: to evoke the image or remembrance of someone in one's mind |
| penser {v} [with à + object] | :: to attach one's thinking to someone, especially lovingly |
| penser {v} [with infinitive] | :: to believe being or doing something |
| penser {v} [with mal or bien + de + object] | :: to think well or badly, to have a high or low opinion of someone |
| penser {v} [with de + infinitive] | :: to try or prepare to do something |
| penser {vtr} [obsolete] | :: to reflect on something |
| penser {v} [with à + object] | :: to bear, keep something in mind, to consider something |
| penser {v} [with infinitive] | :: to intend to do, aim at doing something |
| penser {vt} | :: to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623) |
| penser {v} [with à + infinitive] | :: to intend to do, aim at doing something |
| penser {v} [with mal, obsolete] | :: to intend to do something bad |
| penser {v} [with à + object] | :: to take care of |
| penser {v} [with bien, in politics, religion, moral] | :: to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles |
| penser {v} [with adverb or adverbial expression] | :: to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property |
| penseur {m} | :: thinker |
| pensif {adj} | :: pensive, thoughtful |
| pension {f} | :: A pension, regularly received payment |
| pension {f} | :: A pension, boarding house |
| pension {f} | :: A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools) |
| pension {f} | :: board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals) |
| pension alimentaire {f} [for a child] | :: maintenance allowance, child support |
| pension alimentaire {f} [for a spouse] | :: alimony, divorce settlement |
| pensionnaire {mf} | :: boarder; lodger |
| pensionnaire {mf} | :: pensioner |
| pensionnaire {mf} | :: boarder (someone in a boarding school) |
| pensionnat {m} | :: boarding school |
| pensionné {mf} | :: pensioner |
| pensivement {adv} | :: pensively, thoughtfully |
| pensum {m} [archaic] | :: punishment (at school); lines (UK) |
| pensum {m} | :: chore |
| pentacène {m} [organic compound] | :: pentacene |
| pentachlorure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentachloride |
| pentacle {m} | :: pentacle |
| pentadécane {m} [organic compound] | :: pentadecane |
| pentadécanoïque {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pentadecanoic |
| pentadécylique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pentadecylic |
| pentaèdre {m} | :: pentahedron |
| pentaène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: pentaene |
| pentaérythritol {m} [organic compound] | :: pentaerythritol |
| pentafluorure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentafluoride |
| pentagonal {adj} | :: pentagonal |
| pentagone {m} | :: pentagon (a polygon with five sides and five angles) |
| Pentagone {prop} {m} | :: Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States of America's Department of Defense) |
| pentagramme {m} | :: pentagram |
| pentahydraté {adj} [chemistry] | :: pentahydrated |
| pentamère {m} [chemistry] | :: pentamer |
| pentamériser {v} [chemistry] | :: to pentamerize |
| pentaméthylène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: pentamethylene |
| pentanoïque {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pentanoic |
| pentaoxyde {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentoxide |
| pentaquark {m} [physics] | :: pentaquark |
| pentasulfure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentasulfide |
| pentathionique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentathionic |
| pentathlon {m} | :: pentathlon (discipline made up of five events) |
| pentathlon des neiges {m} | :: snow pentathlon (a five-leg five-sport race involving vélo (bicycling), course (running), ski de fond (crosscountry skiing), patin (ice skating), raquette (snowshoeing).) |
| pentatomique {adj} [chemistry] | :: pentatomic |
| pentatriacontanoïque {adj} [organic compound] | :: pentatriacontanoic |
| pentavalent {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentavalent |
| pentavalentement {adv} | :: pentavalently |
| pente {f} | :: slope |
| Pentecôte {prop} | :: Pentecost |
| pentecôtisme {m} [Christianity] | :: Pentecostalism (Christian religious mouvement) |
| pentecôtiste {adj} | :: Pentecostal |
| pentoxyde {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pentoxide |
| pentu {adj} | :: sloping, slopy |
| pénultième {adj} | :: penultimate |
| pénurie {f} | :: dearth, lack, shortage; penury |
| péon {m} | :: An agricultural labourer in Mexico |
| péone {f} | :: feminine singular of péon |
| people {m} [countable] | :: A celebrity, a famous person |
| pépé {m} [child talk] | :: grandpa |
| pépée {f} [colloquial] | :: bird, chick (young lady) |
| pépère {m} [colloquial] | :: grandfather (also spelled pépé) |
| pépère {m} [childish] | :: affectionate name for a male, such as honey, sweetie, baby (etc.) |
| pépiement {m} | :: chirp, tweet (bird sound) |
| pépier {v} | :: to chirp (make a short sound of a bird) |
| pépin {m} | :: pip (the seed from fruit) |
| pépin {m} [slang] | :: hitch, glitch (small problem encountered) |
| pépin {m} [slang] | :: umbrella |
| pépin {m} [slang] | :: parachute |
| pépinière {f} | :: nursery (for trees) |
| pépinière {f} [figuratively] | :: breeding ground |
| pépiniériste {mf} | :: nurseryman (or woman) |
| pépite {f} | :: nugget |
| péplum {m} | :: peplum (all senses) |
| peps {m} | :: pep (energy and enthusiasm) |
| pepsine {f} | :: pepsin |
| pepsinogène {m} [biochemistry] | :: pepsinogen |
| peptide {m} [biochemistry] | :: peptide |
| peptidique {adj} | :: peptidic |
| peptidoglycane {m} [biochemistry] | :: peptidoglycan |
| peptisant {m} | :: dispersant |
| peptisation {f} | :: peptization, dispersion |
| péquenaud {m} | :: country bumpkin, yokel, hick |
| péquenaude {f} | :: feminine singular of péquenaud |
| péquiste {mf} [Canada, politics] | :: a member or supporter of the Parti Québécois |
| péquiste {adj} [Canada, politics] | :: pertaining to the Parti Québécois |
| peracétique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: peracetic |
| pérail {m} | :: A mild cheese made from sheep milk |
| perçage {m} | :: drilling |
| percale {f} | :: percale |
| perçant {adj} | :: piercing, shrill |
| perçant {adj} | :: sharp (vision etc) |
| percarbure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: percarbide |
| percée {f} | :: breakthrough |
| percée {f} [sports] | :: break, breakaway, counter-attack |
| percement {m} | :: piercing, boring, punching |
| perce-neige {mf} | :: snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) |
| perce-oreille {m} | :: earwig (insect) |
| percepteur {m} | :: tax collector |
| perceptible {adj} | :: perceptible |
| perceptiblement {adv} | :: perceptibly |
| perceptif {adj} | :: perceptive |
| perception {f} | :: tax collection |
| perception {f} | :: perception |
| perceptrice {f} | :: feminine noun of percepteur |
| percer {v} | :: to pierce |
| percer {v} [figuratively] | :: to unravel, see through |
| perceuse {f} | :: drill (tool) |
| percevable {adj} | :: collectible, payable (taxes) |
| percevoir {v} | :: to perceive, to make out |
| percevoir {v} | :: to perceive (understand) |
| percevoir {v} | :: to receive (e.g. taxes) |
| perche {f} | :: perch (type of fish) |
| perche {f} | :: pole |
| perche {f} [sports] | :: pole-vaulting; pole |
| perche {f} [skiing] | :: T-bar |
| perche {f} | :: boom (for microphone etc.) |
| perche {f} | :: perch (for birds) |
| perche {f} | :: rod (unit of length) |
| perche {f} [aeronautics] | :: probe |
| percher {v} | :: to perch |
| perchiste {mf} [sports] | :: pole vaulter |
| perchiste {mf} [film] | :: boom operator |
| perchlorique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: perchloric |
| perchloroéthylène {m} [organic compound] | :: perchloroethylene |
| perchlorure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: perchloride |
| perchoir {m} | :: perch; roost |
| perchoir {m} [colloquial] | :: the seat of the President of the French National Assembly |
| perclus {adj} | :: crippled |
| perclus {adj} [figuratively] | :: paralysed |
| percnoptère {m} | :: Egyptian vulture (of species Neophron percnopterus) |
| percolateur {m} | :: percolator |
| percolation {f} | :: percolation |
| percoler {vi} | :: to percolate |
| percussion {f} | :: percussion (tapping of the body) |
| percussion {f} [music] | :: percussion |
| percussionniste {mf} [music] | :: percussionist |
| percutané {adj} | :: percutaneous |
| percutant {adj} [music] | :: percussive |
| percutant {adj} [military] | :: that fragments on contact |
| percutant {adj} [figuratively] | :: striking, powerful, forceful |
| percuter {vt} | :: to hit; to crash into |
| percuteur {m} | :: firing pin |
| perdable {adj} | :: losable |
| perdant {m} | :: loser |
| perdante {f} | :: Feminine form of perdant |
| perdition {f} | :: perdition |
| perdre {vt} | :: to lose (be unable to find) |
| perdre {vit} | :: to lose (not win) |
| perdre {vr} | :: to get lost |
| perdreau {m} | :: young partridge |
| perdre connaissance {v} | :: to lose consciousness, to pass out, to keel over, to faint |
| perdre du temps {v} | :: to waste time |
| perdre la boule {v} [colloquial] | :: to lose it, to lose the plot, to lose one's mind |
| perdre la main {v} | :: to become out of touch; to lose the habit of doing something |
| perdre la main {v} [cards] | :: to lose the advantage of going first |
| perdre la tête {v} [figuratively] | :: to lose one's head, to take leave of one's senses |
| perdre la vie {v} [euphemistic] | :: to lose one's life |
| perdre le nord {v} [colloquial, figuratively] | :: to lose one's bearings, to be all at sea |
| perdre les eaux {v} [of a woman] | :: to lose the amniotic fluids just prior to delivery, to experience water breaking |
| perdre les pédales {v} [colloquial] | :: to lose it, to lose the plot, to lose one's mind |
| perdre ses moyens {v} | :: to become flustered |
| perdre son latin {v} | :: to become confused |
| perdre son sang-froid {v} [idiomatic] | :: to lose one's cool; to lose one's head |
| perdre son temps {v} | :: to waste one's time |
| perdrix {f} | :: partridge (bird) |
| perdrix {f} [Louisiana French] | :: quail |
| perdu {adj} | :: lost |
| perdurable {adj} | :: perdurable |
| perdurablement {adv} | :: perdurably |
| perdurer {v} | :: to continue to exist, to last, to endure |
| père {m} | :: father (parent) |
| père {m} | :: father (clergyman) |
| père {m} | :: Sr. [senior] (postnomial title used to indicate a father that shares the same name as the son) |
| Père {prop} {m} [Christianity] | :: Father, person of the Holy Trinity |
| Père {prop} {m} [Christianity] | :: Father, title for priests |
| père fouettard {m} | :: bogeyman (especially one who accompanies Father Christmas and threatens naughty children with a whip) |
| Père Fouettard {prop} {m} | :: In French culture, a traditional Yuletide character, who accompanies Saint Nicholas and punishes naughty children |
| pérégrin {adj} | :: foreign |
| pérégrination {f} [chiefly in the plural] | :: peregrination, travel |
| péremption {f} | :: expiry, expiration |
| péremptoire {adj} | :: peremptory; irrefutable |
| péremptoirement {adv} | :: peremptorily |
| pérenne {adj} | :: perennial |
| pérenne {adj} | :: long-lasting |
| pérennisation {f} | :: perpetuation |
| pérennisation {f} | :: permanence |
| pérenniser {vt} | :: to perpetuate, sustain |
| pérennité {f} | :: durability, longevity, long-lastingness, perennity |
| père Noël {prop} {m} | :: alternative spelling of Père Noël |
| Père Noël {prop} {m} | :: Father Christmas; Santa Claus |
| péréquation {f} [finance] | :: balancing out |
| perestroïka {f} | :: perestroika |
| Perey {prop} | :: surname |
| perf {f} [colloquial] | :: performance |
| perfectibilité {f} | :: perfectibility |
| perfectible {adj} | :: perfectible |
| perfectif {adj} [grammar] | :: perfective |
| perfection {f} | :: perfection |
| perfectionné {adj} | :: perfected, refined |
| perfectionnement {m} | :: improvement, refinement |
| perfectionner {v} | :: to perfect; make perfect |
| perfectionner {v} | :: to refine, hone, improve |
| perfectionnisme {m} | :: perfectionism (a dislike for anything less than perfection) |
| perfectionniste {mf} | :: perfectionist (person) |
| perfecto {m} | :: bomber jacket |
| perfide {adj} | :: perfidious (pertaining to perfidy) |
| perfidement {adv} | :: treacherously, perfidiously |
| perfidie {f} | :: perfidy |
| perfolié {adj} [botany] | :: perfoliate |
| perforant {adj} | :: perforating |
| perforant {adj} | :: perforant |
| perforateur {adj} | :: perforating |
| perforateur {m} | :: drill |
| perforateur {mf} | :: punch card operator |
| perforation {f} | :: perforation |
| perforatrice {f} | :: punch (device) |
| perforatrice {f} | :: card punch |
| perforé {adj} | :: perforated, pierced, punched |
| perforer {vt} | :: to perforate |
| perforer {vt} | :: to punch (holes in) |
| perforeuse {f} | :: punch (device) |
| perforeuse {f} | :: card punch |
| performance {f} [sports] | :: performance |
| performant {adj} | :: efficient, effective, performant |
| performatif {adj} | :: performative |
| performativement {adv} | :: performatively |
| performativité {f} | :: performativity |
| perfuser {v} | :: To perfuse |
| perfusion {f} [medicine] | :: perfusion, drip, intravenous injection |
| Pergame {prop} | :: Pergamon |
| Pergé {prop} | :: Perga (town in Turkey) |
| pergélisol {m} | :: permafrost (permanently frozen ground) |
| péri- {prefix} | :: peri-, round, about |
| péri {f} | :: peri |
| périanal {adj} | :: perianal |
| périapside {m} [astronomy] | :: periapsis |
| péricarde {m} [anatomy] | :: pericardium |
| péricardique {adj} [anatomy] | :: pericardial |
| péricardite {f} [pathology] | :: pericarditis |
| péricarpe {m} | :: pericarp |
| péricarpien {adj} [botany] | :: pericarpial |
| péricaryon {m} | :: perikaryon |
| Péricaud {prop} | :: surname |
| périchondre {m} [anatomy] | :: perichondrium |
| périclase {f} [mineral] | :: periclase |
| Périclès {prop} {m} [Ancient Greece] | :: Pericles |
| péricliter {vi} | :: to go downhill, go to the dogs |
| péricope {f} | :: pericope (section of text forming a coherent thought) |
| péricrâne {m} [anatomy] | :: pericranium |
| périculeux {adj} [rare] | :: perilous, dangerous |
| péricycle {m} | :: pericycle |
| péricyclique {adj} | :: pericyclic |
| pérididyme {m} [anatomy] | :: perididymis |
| péridot {m} | :: peridot |
| péridural {adj} | :: epidural |
| péridurale {f} | :: epidural (injection) |
| périèque {adj} | :: Perioikoi |
| périèque {mf} | :: Perioikoi |
| périgée {m} [astronomy] | :: perigee (point in the orbit of any object) |
| périglaciaire {adj} [geology] | :: periglacial |
| périgourdin {adj} | :: Of or from Périgord or Périgueux |
| Périgourdin {m} | :: a native or resident of Périgord or Périgueux |
| Périgourdine {f} | :: feminine noun of Périgourdin |
| Périgueux {prop} | :: A town and associated commune in Dordogne, France |
| périhélie {m} [astronomy] | :: perihelion (point where the planet or comet is nearest to the sun) |
| péril {m} | :: peril, danger |
| péril jaune {m} [pejorative] | :: yellow peril |
| périlleusement {adv} | :: perilously |
| périlleux {adj} | :: perilous |
| périlune {f} | :: perilune |
| périlymphe {f} [anatomy] | :: perilymph |
| périmé {adj} | :: expired; past its expiration date |
| périmé {adj} | :: outdated |
| périmer {vt} | :: to make obsolete |
| périmer {vp} | :: to become obsolete |
| périmer {vp} [se périmer] | :: to become outdated, to become out of fashion, to expire |
| périmètre {m} | :: perimeter |
| périmysium {m} [anatomy] | :: perimysium |
| perinæe {m} | :: obsolete form of périnée |
| périnatal {adj} | :: perinatal |
| périnéal {adj} | :: perineal |
| périnée {m} [anatomy] | :: perineum |
| périnèvre {m} [anatomy] | :: perineurium |
| périodate {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: periodate |
| période {f} | :: period; as in interval of time |
| période {f} | :: era |
| période {m} | :: point, locus |
| périodicité {f} | :: periodicity |
| periodique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: periodic |
| périodique {adj} | :: periodic |
| périodique {m} | :: periodical |
| périodiquement {adv} | :: periodically (in a regular, periodic manner) |
| périodisme {m} | :: synonym of périodicité |
| périodonte {m} | :: synonym of parodonte |
| periodure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: periodide |
| périople {m} [anatomy] | :: periople |
| périorbite {f} [anatomy] | :: periorbita |
| périoste {m} [anatomy] | :: periosteum |
| périovulaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: periovular |
| péripatéticien {m} | :: A disciple of Aristotle, of the Peripatetic school |
| péripatéticien {m} | :: A peripatetic; a wanderer |
| péripatéticien {adj} | :: of or relating to Aristotle and his philosophy; peripatetic |
| péripatéticien {adj} | :: wandering; nomadic |
| péripatéticienne {f} [colloquial] | :: streetwalker, lady of the night |
| péripatétique {adj} | :: of or relating to Aristotle and his philosophy; peripatetic |
| péripatétiquement {adv} | :: peripatetically |
| péripatétisme {m} | :: peripatetic philosophy; philosophy instituted by Aristotle |
| péripétie {f} | :: peripeteia (sudden change in circumstances) |
| péripétie {f} [by extension, in the plural] | :: chain of unexpected events |
| périphérie {f} [geometry] | :: perimeter |
| périphérie {f} | :: [of a town or city] outskirts |
| périphérique {m} [computing] | :: peripheral |
| périphérique {m} | :: ring road |
| périphérique {adj} | :: peripheral |
| périphériquement {adv} | :: peripherally |
| périphrase {f} | :: periphrase |
| périphrastique {adj} | :: periphrastic (grammar: characterized by periphrase or circumlocution) |
| périphyton {m} [biology] | :: periphyton |
| périple {m} [originally] | :: circumnavigation |
| périple {m} | :: journey, travel |
| péripolaire {adj} | :: peripolar |
| périr {v} [formal] | :: to perish |
| périscolaire {adj} | :: extracurricular |
| périscope {m} | :: periscope (viewing device) |
| périscopique {adj} | :: periscopic (relating to periscopes) |
| périssable {adj} | :: perishable |
| périssodactyle {m} | :: odd-toed ungulate (animal of the order Perissodactyla order) |
| péristaltique {adj} | :: peristaltic |
| péristyle {m} [architecture] | :: peristyle |
| péritectique {adj} | :: peritectic |
| péritectique {m} | :: peritectic |
| péritoine {m} [anatomy] | :: peritoneum |
| péritonéal {adj} | :: peritoneal |
| péritonite {f} [pathology] | :: peritonitis |
| péritrachéen {adj} [anatomy] | :: peritracheal |
| périurbain {adj} | :: peri-urban |
| périurbanisation {f} | :: peri-urbanization |
| périvasculaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: perivascular |
| périveineux {adj} [medicine] | :: perivenous |
| périventriculaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: periventricular |
| périvitellin {adj} | :: perivitelline |
| perlant {adj} | :: slightly effervescent (especially of wine) |
| perlatif {m} [grammar] | :: the perlative case |
| perle {f} | :: pearl |
| perlé {adj} | :: beaded |
| perlé {adj} | :: pearl (attributive) |
| perlèche {f} | :: angular cheilitis |
| perler {vi} | :: to bead (form into beads) |
| perlier {adj} | :: pearl (attributive) |
| perlimpinpin {m} | :: only used in poudre de perlimpinpin |
| perlot {m} [colloquial, archaic] | :: snout, baccy, tobacco |
| perluète {f} | :: ampersand |
| permaculture {f} | :: permaculture |
| permafrost {m} | :: permafrost |
| permagel {m} | :: permafrost |
| permalien {m} | :: permalink |
| permanemment {adv} | :: permanently |
| permanence {f} | :: permanence (state of being permanent) |
| permanent {adj} | :: permanent |
| permanent {m} [mathematics] | :: permanent |
| permanentement {adv} | :: permanently |
| permanganique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: permanganic |
| perméabilité {f} | :: permeability |
| perméable {adj} | :: permeable |
| perméase {f} [enzyme] | :: permease |
| perméation {f} | :: permeation |
| permettre {v} | :: to permit, to allow |
| permettre {vr} | :: to take the liberty of doing something |
| permien {adj} | :: Permian |
| Permien {prop} {m} [geology] | :: Permian |
| permis {m} | :: permit, licence |
| permis de conduire {m} | :: driver's license, driving licence |
| permis de construire {m} | :: planning permission, building permit |
| permissif {adj} | :: permissive, lenient |
| permission {f} | :: permission |
| permissionnaire {mf} | :: a soldier on leave |
| permittivité {f} [physics] | :: permittivity |
| permutable {adj} | :: permutable |
| permutation {f} | :: permutation |
| permuter {v} | :: to swap |
| permuter {v} | :: to permute |
| pernambouc {m} | :: brazilwood |
| Pernambouc {prop} | :: Pernambouc (Pernambuco) |
| pernamboucain {adj} | :: Pernambucan |
| pernamboucain {m} | :: Pernambucan |
| pernamboucaine {f} | :: feminine singular of pernamboucain |
| perne {f} | :: A kind of saltwater mussel. (Mytiloida) |
| pernicieusement {adv} | :: perniciously |
| pernicieux {adj} [medicine, rare] | :: Insidious. Having a slow and discreet, but dangerous evolution |
| pernicieux {adj} [literary] | :: Morally harmful; pernicious |
| pernicieux {adj} [dated] | :: Literally harmful or dangerous, usually of animals or persons |
| pernitreux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: synonym of hypoazotique |
| péroné {m} | :: fibula, calf bone |
| péronier {adj} [anatomy] | :: peroneal |
| péronisme {m} [politics] | :: Peronism |
| péroniste {adj} [politics] | :: Peronist |
| péroniste {mf} [politics] | :: Peronist |
| péronnelle {f} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: silly talkative woman, gossip |
| péroraison {f} [rhetoric] | :: peroration (conclusion of a discourse) |
| pérorer {vi} | :: to hold forth, perorate |
| Pérou {prop} {m} | :: Peru |
| Pérouse {prop} {f} | :: Perugia (province) |
| Pérouse {prop} {f} | :: Perugia (city) |
| pérovskite {f} [mineral] | :: perovskite |
| peroxyacétique {m} [organic chemistry] | :: peroxyacetic |
| peroxydase {f} [enzyme] | :: peroxidase |
| péroxydase {f} [enzyme] | :: peroxidase |
| peroxyde {m} [chemistry] | :: peroxide |
| peroxyder {v} | :: To peroxidize (all senses) |
| perpendiculaire {adj} | :: perpendicular (at or forming a right angle to) |
| perpendiculairement {adv} | :: perpendicularly |
| perpendicularité {f} | :: perpendicularity |
| perpète {f} [colloquial] | :: life sentence |
| perpétrer {vt} | :: to commit, perpetrate (a crime) |
| perpétuel {adj} | :: endless, perpetual, eternal |
| perpétuel {adj} [job position] | :: permanent |
| perpétuellement {adv} | :: perpetually |
| perpétuer {v} | :: to perpetuate |
| perpétuité {f} | :: perpetuity |
| Perpignan {prop} {m} | :: Perpignan (city) |
| perpignanais {adj} | :: of or from Perpignan |
| Perpignanais {m} | :: someone of or from Perpignan |
| Perpignanaise {f} | :: feminine noun of Perpignanais |
| perplexe {adj} | :: puzzled, perplexed |
| perplexité {f} | :: perplexity |
| perquisition {f} [legal] | :: act of searching for someone or something |
| perquisitionner {vi} [legal] | :: to carry out a search |
| Perrault {prop} | :: surname |
| Perret {prop} | :: surname |
| perrhénate {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: perrhenate |
| perrhénique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: perrhenic |
| Perrin {prop} | :: surname |
| Perrine {prop} | :: given name, a feminine diminutive form of Pierre |
| perron {m} | :: steps (to an entranceway), perron |
| perronisme {m} [Quebec] | :: A usually humorous malapropism or mixed metaphor, especially when speaking extemporaneously |
| perroquet {m} | :: parrot (bird) |
| perroquet {m} [nautical] | :: topgallant (sail) |
| perroquetage {m} | :: parroting |
| perroqueter {n} | :: to parrot |
| Perrot {prop} {m} | :: surname |
| perruche {f} | :: parakeet; parrot; budgie (any of various birds) |
| perruque {f} | :: wig |
| perruque {f} [historical] | :: wig, periwig, peruke |
| perruquier {m} | :: wigmaker |
| perruquier {m} [obsolete] | :: hairdresser |
| perruquière {f} | :: feminine noun of perruquier |
| pers {adj} [literary] | :: blue-green (particularly used in reference to eyes) |
| persan {adj} | :: Persian |
| persan {m} [uncountable] | :: Persian language |
| persan {m} [countable] | :: Persian (cat) |
| Persan {m} | :: Persian, someone from Iran |
| Persane {f} | :: feminine noun of Persan |
| Perse {prop} {f} | :: Persia |
| Perse {mf} | :: Persian person |
| persécuter {v} | :: to persecute |
| persécuter {v} [by extension] | :: to annoy, to irritate |
| persécuteur {m} | :: persecutor |
| persécution {f} | :: persecution |
| persécutrice {f} | :: persecutor (female) |
| Persée {prop} {m} | :: Perseus |
| persel {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: persalt |
| Perséphone {prop} {f} [Greek mythology] | :: Persephone |
| Persépolis {prop} | :: Persepolis |
| persévéramment {adv} | :: persistently |
| persévérance {f} | :: perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence) |
| persévérant {adj} | :: persevering |
| persévérant {adj} | :: persistent |
| persévérer {v} | :: to persevere |
| persicaire {f} | :: knotweed, smartweed (of the genus Persicaria) |
| Perside {prop} | :: Pars (old name of Fars) |
| persienne {f} | :: shutter (on window) |
| persiffler {v} | :: alternative spelling of persifler |
| persiflage {m} | :: Ridicule or malicious mockery made under the guise of good-natured raillery |
| persifler {v} | :: to mock; to goad |
| persil {m} | :: parsley |
| persillé {adj} | :: with the addition of parsley |
| persillé {adj} | :: marbled, veined |
| persique {adj} | :: Persian (of, or relating to, Old Persia) |
| persistance {f} | :: persistence |
| persistant {adj} | :: persistent |
| persistant {adj} [botany] | :: evergreen |
| persister {v} | :: to persist |
| perso {adj} [colloquial] | :: personal |
| perso {adj} [colloquial] | :: one's own |
| perso {adv} [colloquial] | :: personally (in one's own opinion) |
| perso {m} [video games] | :: character |
| personnage {m} | :: character (in a play, program, film) |
| personnalisable {adj} | :: personalizable, customizable |
| personnalisation {f} | :: customization, personalization |
| personnaliser {v} | :: to personalise, to customise |
| personnalisme {m} | :: personalism |
| personnalisme {m} | :: egoism |
| personnalité {f} | :: personality, character |
| personnalité {f} | :: personality (person) |
| personnalité {f} [archaic, rare] | :: personal attack |
| personne {f} | :: person |
| personne {pron} | :: (with ne) no one, nobody |
| personne {pron} | :: anyone |
| personnel {adj} | :: personal |
| personnel {m} | :: staff, members of staff, personnel |
| personnellement {adv} | :: personally |
| personne morale {f} [law] | :: legal entity, body corporate, legal person, juridical person |
| personne physique {f} [law] | :: individual, natural person |
| personnification {f} | :: personification (person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea) |
| personnifier {vt} | :: to personify |
| perspective {f} | :: a perspective |
| perspective {f} | :: a prospect |
| perspectivisme {m} | :: perspectivism |
| perspicace {adj} | :: perspicacious (showing keen insight) |
| perspicacité {f} | :: insight, acumen, perspicacity |
| persuader {v} | :: to persuade |
| persuasif {adj} | :: persuasive |
| persuasion {f} | :: persuasion |
| persuasivement {adv} | :: persuasively |
| persulfure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: persulfide |
| persulfurique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: persulfuric / persulphuric |
| perte {f} | :: loss |
| perte {f} | :: ruin |
| pertechnétate {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pertechnetate |
| pertechnétique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pertechnetic |
| Perth {prop} | :: Perth (in Australia) |
| Perth {prop} | :: Perth (in Scotland) |
| pertinemment {adv} | :: pertinently |
| pertinemment {adv} | :: full well |
| pertinence {f} | :: pertinence; relevance |
| pertinent {adj} | :: pertinent; relevant |
| pertinent {adj} | :: judicious; justified |
| pertuis {m} | :: hole |
| pertuisane {f} | :: partisan (kind of halberd) |
| perturbateur {m} | :: agitator, troublemaker |
| perturbateur {adj} | :: disruptive |
| perturbation {f} | :: disturbance |
| perturbation {f} | :: derangement |
| perturber {vt} | :: to disrupt, to disturb |
| perturber {vt} | :: to throw off, to fluster |
| péruvien {adj} | :: Peruvian |
| Péruvien {m} | :: Peruvian person |
| Péruvienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Péruvien |
| pervaporer {v} [physics, chemistry] | :: To pervaporate |
| pervéance {f} [physics] | :: perveance |
| pervenche {f} | :: periwinkle |
| pervenche {f} | :: (female) traffic warden, meter maid [US] |
| pervers {adj} | :: perverse |
| pervers {adj} | :: sexually perverted, raunchy |
| pervers {m} | :: a lecher |
| perversement {adv} | :: perversely; in a perverted fashion |
| perversion {f} | :: perversion |
| perversité {f} | :: perversity |
| perversité {f} | :: depravity |
| pervertir {v} | :: to worsen; to corrupt |
| perxénate {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: perxenate |
| pérylène {m} [organic compound] | :: perylene |
| pesage {m} | :: weighing |
| pesage {m} | :: weighing in (of a jockey before/after a race) |
| pesamment {adv} | :: heavily |
| pesant {adj} | :: heavy |
| pesanteur {f} [physics] | :: gravity |
| pesanteur {f} | :: weight |
| pesanteur {f} | :: heaviness |
| pesanteur {f} [said of a person] | :: slowness, dullness |
| Pescara {prop} | :: Pescara (province) |
| Pescara {prop} | :: Pescara (town) |
| Pescheur {prop} | :: surname |
| pèse-lait {m} | :: lactometer (device to weight cream) |
| peser {vi} | :: to weigh (to have a weight of) |
| peser {vt} | :: To weigh (to see how much something weighs) |
| peseta {f} | :: peseta |
| peshmerga {m} | :: peshmerga |
| pessaire {m} [medicine] | :: pessary (medical device most commonly used to support a displaced uterus) |
| pessaire {m} [medicine] | :: pessary (contraceptive) |
| pesse {f} [archaic] | :: spruce |
| pessimisme {m} | :: pessimism (general belief that bad things will happen) |
| pessimiste {mf} | :: pessimist |
| pessimiste {adj} | :: pessimistic |
| peste {f} | :: plague (disease) |
| peste {f} [colloquial] | :: brat |
| peste {f} [colloquial, of a girl] | :: pest |
| peste bubonique {f} | :: bubonic plague |
| peste noire {f} | :: Black Death |
| pester {v} | :: to rant, curse, fulminate |
| pesteux {adj} | :: plague (attributive) |
| pesticide {m} | :: pesticide |
| pestiféré {adj} | :: pestiferous |
| pestiféré {mf} | :: plague victim |
| pestilence {f} [archaic or literary] | :: pest epidemic; pestilence |
| pestilence {f} | :: extremely foul smell |
| pestilentiel {adj} | :: pestilent, foul |
| pestilentiel {adj} | :: pestilential |
| pet {m} [colloquial] | :: fart |
| peta- {prefix} | :: peta- |
| péta- {prefix} | :: peta- |
| pétaflop {m} [computing] | :: petaflop |
| pétage {m} [slang] | :: The act of farting |
| pétage {m} [slang] | :: The act of breaking |
| pétage de plombs {v} [idiomatic] | :: Descent into madness, the act or process of going crazy |
| pétage de plombs {v} [idiomatic] | :: Loss of control (of one's faculties) |
| pétainisme {m} | :: Pétainism |
| pétainiste {adj} | :: Pétainist |
| pétainiste {mf} | :: Pétainist |
| pétakatal {m} | :: petakatal |
| pétale {m} [botany] | :: petal |
| pétalite {f} [mineralogy] | :: petalite |
| pétaloïde {adj} | :: petaloid |
| pétanque {f} | :: pétanque |
| pétanqueur {m} | :: A pétanque player |
| pétanqueuse {f} | :: feminine singular of pétanqueur |
| pétaoctet {m} [computing] | :: petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) |
| pétaoctet {m} [computing] | :: petabyte (1015 bytes) |
| Pétaouchnock {prop} | :: Timbuktoo (an imagined, very distant, place) |
| pétaradant {adj} | :: spluttering, sputtering |
| pétarade {f} | :: backfire |
| pétarader {vi} | :: to backfire |
| pétard {m} | :: firecracker (firework) |
| pétard {m} [slang] | :: joint (marijuana cigarette) |
| pétard {m} [slang] | :: revolver |
| pétard {m} [slang] | :: buttocks |
| pétard {m} [slang] | :: beautiful woman |
| pétard mouillé {m} | :: damp squib (firework that fails to go off, due to wetting) |
| pétard mouillé {m} [idiomatic] | :: damp squib |
| pétase {m} | :: petasus |
| pétasite {m} [plant] | :: butterbur |
| pétasse {f} [colloquial, dated] | :: prostitute, whore |
| pétasse {f} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: bitch, cunt [objectionable woman] |
| pétaudière {f} | :: bedlam, bear garden (scene of tumult and disorder) |
| pet de nonne {m} | :: alternative spelling of pet-de-nonne |
| pet-de-nonne {m} | :: A small choux pastry eaten during carnival season in France (especially Alsace) and Belgium |
| pété {adj} [slang] | :: broken |
| pété {adj} [slang] | :: drunk (intoxicated by alcohol) |
| pété {adj} [games, slang] | :: overpowered (overly powerful) |
| pète {f} [Belgium] | :: fail (of an exam) |
| pète {f} [Belgium] | :: butt |
| pète-burnes {adj} [figuratively, vulgar] | :: irritating, annoying as fuck |
| pète-burnes {m} [figuratively, vulgar] | :: ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating) |
| pétéchial {adj} [pathology] | :: petechial |
| pète-couilles {adj} [figuratively, vulgar] | :: irritating, annoying as fuck |
| pète-couilles {m} [figuratively, vulgar] | :: ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating) |
| pété de thunes {adj} [colloquial, slang] | :: filthy rich, loaded (with money) |
| pétélin {m} | :: synonym of térébinthe |
| péter {v} [slang, colloquial] | :: to blow off, fart |
| péter {v} [slang] | :: to break |
| péter les couilles {v} [vulgar] | :: To piss off, to annoy a lot |
| péter les plombs {v} [idiomatic] | :: To go crazy |
| péter les plombs {v} [idiomatic] | :: To get (very) angry |
| péter plus haut que son cul {v} [figuratively, vulgar, pejorative] | :: to think one's shit doesn't stink, to think one is the shit, to think one is the business, to think one is hot shit, to be full of oneself |
| Petersbach {prop} | :: A commune in the Bas-Rhin département, Alsace, France |
| péter un câble {v} | :: See: péter un câble |
| péter un câble {v} [idiomatic] | :: To go crazy |
| péter un câble {v} [idiomatic] | :: To get (very) angry |
| péter un plomb {v} | :: See: péter un plomb |
| péter un plomb {v} [idiomatic] | :: To go crazy |
| péter un plomb {v} [idiomatic] | :: To get (very) angry, to shit a brick |
| pète-sec {adj} [colloquial] | :: snippy |
| péteur {m} [vulgar] | :: farter, one who breaks wind |
| péteuse {f} | :: feminine noun of péteur |
| péteux {adj} | :: timid, cowardly |
| péteux {adj} [Belgium] | :: pretentious, stuck-up |
| pet foireux {m} [colloquial, vulgar] | :: shart |
| pétillant {adj} | :: fizzy |
| pétillement {m} | :: twinkle, sparkle |
| pétillement {m} | :: crackle, crackling |
| pétillement {m} | :: fizz, bubbling up, bubbling |
| pétiller {vi} [of a liquid] | :: to fizz, to be fizzy, bubble, bubble up |
| pétiller {vi} [of fire, flames etc.] | :: to crackle |
| pétiller {vi} [of eyes] | :: to sparkle, twinkle, flutter |
| pétiole {m} [botany] | :: leafstalk, petiole |
| petit {adj} | :: small |
| petit {adj} | :: little |
| petit {adj} | :: petty |
| petit {m} | :: small one (anything that is small) |
| petit {m} | :: little one (anything that is little) |
| petit {m} | :: little one; child (of humans or other animals) |
| petit {m} | :: the young (of a species) |
| Petit {prop} | :: surname |
| petit ami {m} | :: boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment) |
| petit à petit {adv} | :: little by little, bit by bit |
| petit blanc {m} [Haiti, historical] | :: A poor white person who did not own a plantation |
| Petit Chaperon rouge {prop} | :: Little Red Riding Hood |
| petit coin {m} [colloquial] | :: loo (toilet) |
| petit déjeuner {m} [chiefly France] | :: breakfast (morning meal) |
| petit doigt {m} [colloquial] | :: little finger (outermost and smallest finger of the hand), auricular |
| petite amie {f} | :: girlfriend (girl/woman to whom one has a romantic attachment) |
| petite annonce {f} | :: a single classified advertisement |
| petite bite {f} [vulgar] | :: pansy, chickenshit (person with little courage or bravery) |
| petite capitale {f} | :: small caps (font variant) |
| petite couronne {prop} {f} | :: The zone consisting of the three departments (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis) that border the city of Paris |
| petit écran {m} | :: small screen |
| petite culotte {f} | :: [clothing] knickers |
| petite-fille {f} | :: granddaughter (daughter of someone’s child) |
| petite finale {f} | :: small final |
| petite frappe {f} [colloquial, derogatory] | :: a small-time bully, a little hoodlum, a little yobbo, a little thug |
| petitement {adv} | :: poorly |
| petitement {adv} | :: meanly |
| petitement {adv} | :: pettily |
| petite mort {f} [idiomatic, poetic] | :: orgasm |
| petite nature {f} [colloquial] | :: a faint-hearted person, a wimp, a weakling, a sensitive type, a delicate flower, a wuss, a pansy |
| petit-enfant {m} | :: grandchild (child of someone’s child) |
| petite-nièce {f} | :: grandniece (daughter of a niece or nephew) |
| Petite Ourse {prop} {f} | :: Ursa Minor (constellation) |
| petit épeautre {m} | :: einkorn wheat |
| petite perception {f} [psychology] | :: petite perception |
| petites heures {fp} | :: small hours, wee small hours |
| petites lèvres {fp} | :: labia minora |
| petite sœur {f} | :: little sister |
| petite sœur {f} [slang] | :: another drink like the one before; the same again |
| petite souris {f} | :: tooth fairy |
| petitesse {f} | :: smallness, littleness |
| petitesse {f} | :: pettiness |
| petitesse {f} | :: petiteness |
| petite vérole {f} [archaic] | :: smallpox |
| petit filet {m} [football] | :: side-netting |
| petit-fils {m} | :: grandson |
| petit four {m} | :: petit four |
| pétition {f} | :: petition (a written request containing many signatures) |
| pétition de principe {f} | :: petitio principii, an instance of begging the question |
| pétitionnaire {mf} | :: petitioner |
| pétitionner {v} | :: to petition |
| pétitionneur {m} [rare] | :: petitioner |
| petitissime {adj} | :: very small, very little, or both |
| Petitjean {prop} | :: surname (Little John) |
| petit joueur {m} [colloquial] | :: bit player |
| petit jour {m} | :: dawn, daybreak |
| petit juif {m} | :: funny bone |
| petit-lait {m} | :: whey |
| petit largue {m} [nautical] | :: close reach |
| petit-maître {m} [archaic] | :: dandy, coxcomb |
| petit mal {m} [medicine] | :: petit mal |
| petit matin {m} | :: early morning, small hours, first thing |
| petit monde {m} [Louisiana French] | :: a child |
| petit-neveu {m} | :: grandnephew (grandson of a sibling) |
| petit panda {m} | :: red panda (Ailurus fulgens) |
| petit pois {m} | :: pea (the vegetable) |
| petit pont {m} [soccer] | :: nutmeg |
| pétochard {adj} [colloquial] | :: yellow-bellied (shy, timid) |
| pétoche {f} [colloquial] | :: fear |
| pétocher {vi} [colloquial] | :: to fear |
| pétoire {f} [colloquial] | :: peashooter (old or ineffective gun) |
| pétomane {mf} | :: A flatulist |
| pétomane {mf} | :: A prolific farter |
| peton {m} [colloquial] | :: foot |
| pétoncle {mf} | :: scallop (bivalve) |
| pétrarquisme {m} | :: Petrarchism |
| pétrel {m} | :: petrel (bird) |
| pétreux {adj} [anatomy] | :: petrosal |
| pétri {adj} [followed by the preposition de] | :: full of something, puffed up with something |
| pétrification {f} | :: petrification, petrifaction |
| pétrifier {v} | :: to petrify (turn to stone) |
| pétrifier {v} | :: to petrify, to paralyze (freeze with fear) |
| pétrin {m} | :: kneading trough |
| pétrin {m} [figuratively, colloquial] | :: a pickle, mess, scrape, the soup |
| pétrir {v} | :: to knead |
| pétrir {v} | :: to mould into shape |
| pétrissage {m} | :: kneading |
| pétrochimie {f} | :: petrochemical industry |
| pétrochimique {adj} | :: petrochemical |
| pétrocorien {adj} | :: Of or from Périgueux |
| Pétrocorien {m} | :: Native or inhabitant of Périgueux |
| Pétrocorienne {f} | :: feminine singular of Pétrocorien |
| pétrodollar {m} | :: petrodollar |
| pétrogène {adj} [geology] | :: petrogenetic |
| pétroglyphe {m} | :: petroglyph |
| pétrographe {mf} | :: petrographer |
| pétrographie {f} | :: petrography |
| pétrographique {adj} | :: petrographic |
| pétrographiquement {adv} | :: petrographically |
| pétrolatum {m} | :: petrolatum |
| pétrole {m} | :: petroleum |
| pétrole {m} | :: oil |
| pétrole {m} | :: hydrocarbon |
| pétrolette {f} | :: moped |
| pétroleur {m} | :: An arsonist who lights fires with petrol |
| pétroleuse {f} | :: feminine noun of pétroleur |
| pétrolier {adj} [attributive] | :: petrol; oil |
| pétrolier {m} | :: oil tanker |
| pétrolier {m} | :: oil worker |
| pétrolière {f} | :: oil company |
| pétrolifère {adj} | :: of or related to petroleum or oil, oil-producing |
| pétrologie {f} | :: petrology |
| pétrologique {adj} [geology] | :: petrological |
| pétrologue {mf} | :: petrologist |
| Petronille {prop} | :: given name |
| Pétronille {prop} | :: given name |
| pétrosélinique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: petroselinic |
| pétulamment {adv} | :: petulantly |
| pétulance {f} | :: petulance |
| pétulant {adj} | :: exuberant, lively |
| pétun {m} [obsolete] | :: tobacco |
| pétuner {v} [obsolete] | :: to smoke, especially tobacco |
| pétuner {v} [obsolete] | :: to take snuff |
| pétunia {m} | :: petunia |
| peu {adv} | :: little; not very much/many |
| peu {m} | :: few |
| peu {m} | :: little |
| peu à peu {adv} | :: bit by bit, little by little |
| peucédanin {m} [organic compound] | :: peucedanin |
| Peugeot {prop} | :: surname, especially that of the dynastic car-manufacturing family |
| Peugeot {prop} | :: A French motorcar manufacturer |
| Peuhl {m} | :: alternative spelling of Peul |
| Peuhle {f} | :: feminine singular of Peuhl |
| peu importe {interj} | :: no matter, never mind, it doesn't matter |
| peu importe {prep} | :: no matter the, no matter what, regardless of |
| peul {adj} | :: relating to Fula |
| peul {m} | :: Fula (language) |
| Peul {m} | :: a member of the Fula people |
| peulh {adj} | :: alternative form of peul |
| Peulh {m} | :: alternative spelling of Peul |
| Peulhe {f} | :: feminine singular of Peulh |
| peu ou prou {adv} | :: more or less |
| peuplade {f} | :: tribe, people |
| peuple {m} | :: people (in the sense of nationality or ethnic group) |
| peuplé {adj} | :: populated; inhabited |
| peuplement {m} | :: populating (act of increasing a population, or of a population increasing) |
| peupler {v} | :: to populate |
| peupleraie {f} | :: poplar grove |
| peuplier {m} | :: poplar |
| peur {f} [countable and uncountable] | :: fear |
| peur bleue {f} | :: terror, strong fear |
| peureusement {adv} | :: fearfully |
| peureux {adj} | :: fearful |
| peut-être {adv} | :: maybe, perhaps |
| p. ex. {adv} | :: e.g. |
| pèze {m} [colloquial] | :: dosh, dough (money) |
| pff {interj} | :: pff |
| pfff {interj} | :: alternative spelling of pff |
| PFK {prop} {m} | :: KFC (chain of fast-food chicken restaurants) |
| pfut {interj} [colloquial] | :: Expressing disinterest |
| PGCD {m} [mathematics] | :: initialism of plus grand commun dénominateur or plus grand commun diviseur: gcd |
| phacochère {m} | :: warthog |
| phænomene {m} | :: obsolete form of phénomène |
| phaéton {m} | :: phaeton |
| -phage {suffix} | :: -phage |
| phage {m} | :: synonym of bactériophage |
| phagédénique {adj} | :: gangrenous |
| phagnalon {m} | :: phagnalon |
| phagocytage {m} [biology] | :: phagocytosis |
| phagocytage {m} | :: swallowing up |
| phagocytaire {adj} [biology] | :: phagocytic |
| phagocyter {vt} [biology] | :: to phagocytize |
| phagocyter {vt} | :: to swallow up |
| phagotrophie {f} [biology] | :: phagotrophy |
| phagotrophique {adj} [biology] | :: phagotrophic |
| phalange {f} [anatomy] | :: phalanx |
| phalange {f} [historical] | :: phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.) |
| phalangère {f} | :: Any plant of the genus Anthericum |
| phalangère {f} | :: spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) |
| phalangette {f} [anatomy] | :: distal phalange |
| phalangien {adj} [anatomy] | :: phalangeal, phalangian |
| phalangine {f} [anatomy] | :: intermediate phalange |
| phalangiste {m} | :: scarab beetle |
| phalangiste {m} | :: Falangist |
| phalanstère {m} | :: phalanstery |
| phalarope {m} | :: phalarope |
| phalène {mf} | :: moth (especially a geometrid moth) |
| phallique {adj} | :: phallic |
| phalliquement {adv} | :: phallically |
| phallocentrique {adj} | :: phallocentric |
| phallocrate {mf} | :: male chauvinist |
| phallocratie {f} | :: male chauvinism |
| phalloïdine {f} | :: phalloidin |
| Pham {prop} | :: surname |
| Phan {prop} | :: surname |
| phanère {m} [chiefly in the plural] | :: dander (skin flakes etc) |
| phanérogame {m} [biology] | :: phanerogam |
| phanérogamie {f} [biology] | :: phanerogamy |
| phanérogamique {adj} [biology] | :: phanerogamic |
| phanérophyte {m} [botany] | :: phanerophyte |
| phanérozoïque {adj} | :: Phanerozoic |
| phantaisie {f} | :: alternative form of fantaisie |
| phantasier {v} | :: obsolete form of fantasier |
| phantasmagorie {f} | :: alternative form of fantasmagorie |
| phantasmagorique {adj} | :: alternative form of fantasmagorique |
| phantasmascope {m} | :: obsolete form of fantasmascope |
| phantasmatique {adj} | :: phantasmic |
| phantasmatiquement {adv} | :: phantasmically |
| phantasme {m} | :: alternative form of fantasme |
| phantasque {adj} | :: alternative form of fantasque |
| phantastiquer {v} | :: obsolete form of fantastiquer |
| phantôme {m} | :: alternative form of fantôme |
| pharaon {m} | :: pharaoh (supreme ruler of ancient Egypt) |
| pharaonique {adj} | :: pharaonic |
| pharaonique {adj} | :: colossal |
| phare {adj} | :: leading, signature, key, flagship |
| phare {m} | :: lighthouse |
| phare {m} | :: lantern in a lighthouse |
| phare {m} | :: headlight (of a vehicle) |
| phare {m} | :: headlamp (of a vehicle) |
| phare {m} [figuratively] | :: beacon, luminary |
| phare {m} [nautical] | :: the set of sails on the mast |
| phare antibrouillard {m} [automotive] | :: fog light, fog lamp |
| pharisaïque {adj} | :: pharisaic |
| pharisaïquement {adv} | :: pharisaically |
| pharisien {m} | :: Pharisee |
| pharisien {adj} | :: Pharisee |
| pharmaceutique {adj} | :: pharmaceutical |
| pharmacie {f} | :: pharmacy, drugstore |
| pharmacien {m} | :: pharmacist |
| pharmacien {m} | :: chemist (dispensing chemist) |
| pharmacien {m} | :: apothecary |
| pharmacienne {f} | :: feminine noun of pharmacien |
| pharmacochimie {f} [chemistry] | :: pharmacochemistry |
| pharmacodépendance {f} | :: drug dependency |
| pharmacognosie {f} | :: pharmacognosy |
| pharmacologie {f} | :: pharmacology |
| pharmacologique {adj} | :: pharmacologic, pharmacological |
| pharmacologiquement {adv} | :: pharmacologically |
| pharmacopée {f} | :: pharmacopoeia |
| pharmacopœe {f} | :: obsolete form of pharmacopée |
| pharyngé {adj} | :: pharyngeal |
| pharyngectomie {f} [surgery] | :: pharyngectomy |
| pharyngien {adj} | :: pharyngeal |
| pharyngite {f} [pathology] | :: pharyngitis |
| pharynx {m} [anatomy] | :: pharynx |
| phasaire {adj} [biology] | :: Relating to phases or development |
| phascolome {m} [dated] | :: Wombat |
| phase {f} | :: phase |
| phase de poule {f} [sports] | :: group stage |
| phase éruptive {f} [geology] | :: eruptive phase |
| phaséolique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phaseolic |
| phasme {m} | :: stick insect |
| phasmide {m} [biology] | :: phasmid |
| phatique {adj} | :: phatic (more polite than meaningful) |
| phatiquement {adv} | :: phatically |
| phénakistiscope {m} | :: phenakistoscope |
| phénakite {f} [mineral] | :: phenakite |
| phénalène {m} [organic compound] | :: phenalene |
| phénanthrène {m} [organic compound] | :: phenanthrene |
| phénantroline {f} [organic compound] | :: phenanthroline |
| Phénicie {prop} | :: Phoenicia |
| phénicien {m} | :: Phoenician language |
| phénicien {adj} | :: Phoenician |
| Phénicien {m} | :: Phoenician person |
| Phénicienne {f} | :: feminine noun of Phénicien |
| phénix {m} [mythology] | :: phoenix |
| phénol {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phenol |
| phénolique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phenolic |
| phénologie {f} | :: phenology (study of the effect of climate) |
| phénologique {adj} | :: phenological |
| phénologiquement {adv} | :: phenologically |
| phénoménal {adj} | :: phenomenal |
| phénoménalement {adv} | :: phenomenally |
| phénomène {m} | :: phenomenon (curious occurrence) |
| phénoménologie {f} | :: phenomenology |
| phénoménologique {adj} | :: phenomenological |
| phénoménologiquement {adv} | :: phenomenologically |
| phénoménologiste {mf} | :: phenomenologist |
| phénoplaste {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phenol formaldehyde resin |
| phénothiazine {m} [organic compound] | :: phenothiazine |
| phénotype {m} [genetics] | :: phenotype |
| phényl {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phenyl |
| phénylalanine {f} [amino acid] | :: phenylalanine |
| phénylamine {f} [organic compound] | :: phenylamine |
| phénylcétonurie {f} [pathology] | :: phenylketonuria |
| phényle {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phenyl |
| phénylène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phenylene |
| phénylhydrazine {f} [organic compound] | :: phenylhydrazine |
| phénylméthane {m} [organic compound] | :: phenylmethane |
| phéochromocytome {m} [pathology] | :: pheochromocytoma |
| Phérécyde {prop} {m} [Ancient Greece] | :: Pherecydes |
| phéromonal {adj} | :: pheromonal |
| phéromonalement {adv} | :: pheromonally |
| phéromone {f} | :: pheromone |
| phérormone {f} | :: alternative form of phéromone |
| phi {m} | :: phi (Greek letter) |
| Phil {prop} {m} | :: given name, diminutive of Philippe |
| Philadelphie {prop} {f} | :: Philadelphia (U.S. city) |
| philaire {m} | :: Any plant of the genus Phillyrea |
| philanthrope {mf} | :: philanthropist |
| philanthropie {f} | :: philanthropy |
| philanthropique {adj} | :: philanthropic (all meanings) |
| philantrope {mf} | :: alternative form of philanthrope |
| philatélie {f} | :: philately |
| philatélique {adj} | :: philatelic (stamp collecting) |
| philatéliste {mf} | :: philatelist |
| -phile {suffix} | :: -philic |
| Philémon {prop} {m} | :: Philemon |
| philharmonie {f} [music] | :: philharmonic orchestra or society |
| philharmonique {adj} | :: philharmonic |
| philharmonique {m} | :: philharmonic |
| Philibert {prop} | :: given name |
| -philie {suffix} | :: -philia |
| Philippe {prop} | :: given name, cognate to English Philip. Very popular in 20th century France, next only to Jean and Pierre |
| Philippe {prop} | :: Philip [biblical character] |
| Philippe {prop} | :: surname |
| Philippiens {prop} {m} [Bible] | :: Philippians |
| philippin {adj} | :: Filipino (of, or from the Philippines) |
| Philippin {m} | :: Filipino, someone from the Philippines |
| Philippine {f} | :: feminine noun of Philippin |
| Philippines {prop} {fp} | :: The Philippines |
| philistin {adj} | :: philistine |
| philistin {m} | :: philistine |
| philo {f} [colloquial] | :: philosophy |
| Philodème {prop} {m} | :: Philodemus |
| philogynie {f} | :: philogyny |
| philologie {f} | :: philology |
| philologique {adj} | :: philological |
| philologiquement {adv} | :: philologically |
| philologue {mf} | :: philologist |
| Philomène {prop} {f} | :: given name, equivalent to English Philomena |
| philosophal {adj} [attributive] | :: philosopher (meaning alchemist) |
| philosophe {mf} | :: philosopher |
| philosopher {v} | :: to philosophize |
| philosophie {f} | :: philosophy, the study of thoughts |
| philosophie {f} | :: philosophy, one's manner of thinking |
| philosophie {f} [printing, dated] | :: small pica: 11-point type |
| philosophie {f} | :: a philosophical (calm and stoically accepting) attitude |
| philosophique {adj} | :: philosophical |
| philosophiquement {adv} | :: philosophically |
| philosophisme {m} | :: philosophism |
| philtre {m} | :: philter (a kind of potion, charm, or drug intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver) |
| philtrum {m} | :: philtrum |
| philuméniste {mf} | :: phillumenist (matchbox collector) |
| phimosis {m} [medicine] | :: phimosis |
| phlébectomie {f} [surgery] | :: phlebectomy |
| phlébite {f} [pathology] | :: phlebitis |
| phlébologie {f} | :: phlebology |
| phlébologue {mf} | :: phlebologist |
| phlébotomie {f} | :: phlebotomy |
| Phlégéthon {prop} {m} | :: Phlegethon |
| phlegmatique {adj} | :: phlegmatic |
| phlegmatiquement {adv} | :: phlegmatically |
| phlegme {m} [archaic, obsolete] | :: alternative spelling of flegme |
| Phlégon {prop} | :: Phlegon |
| phloème {m} | :: phloem |
| phlogistique {m} [obsolete, chemsitry] | :: phlogiston |
| phlogistique {adj} [obsolete, chemistry] | :: phlogistic |
| phlogistiqué {adj} | :: phlogisticated |
| phlogistiquer {v} | :: To phlogisticate |
| phlogopite {f} [mineral] | :: phlogopite |
| -phobie {suffix} | :: -phobia |
| phobie {f} | :: phobia |
| phocéen {adj} | :: Phocean |
| phocéen {adj} | :: Marseillais, from Marseille |
| phocénine {f} | :: phocenin |
| phoeniciculteur {m} | :: date palm farmer |
| phoeniciculteuse {f} | :: feminine singular of phoeniciculteur |
| phoeniciculture {f} | :: date palm cultivation |
| Phœnicie {prop} {f} | :: obsolete form of Phénicie |
| phœnicien {adj} | :: obsolete form of phénicien |
| phœnicien {m} | :: obsolete form of phénicien |
| Phœnicien {m} | :: obsolete form of Phénicien |
| Phœnicienne {f} | :: feminine singular of Phœnicien |
| phœnix {m} | :: alternative form of phénix |
| phonatoire {adj} | :: phonatory |
| phonautographe {m} | :: phonautograph |
| -phone {suffix} | :: speaker of a specific language |
| -phone {suffix} | :: something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone |
| phone {m} | :: phon (a unit of apparent loudness) |
| phone {m} [linguistics] | :: phone |
| phonème {m} [linguistics] | :: phoneme |
| phonémique {adj} | :: phonemic (relating to phonemes) |
| phonémique {f} | :: phonemics |
| phoner {v} | :: to ring, call, phone |
| phonéticien {m} | :: phonetician |
| phonéticienne {f} | :: feminine noun of phonéticien |
| phonétique {adj} | :: phonetic |
| phonétique {f} [linguistics] | :: phonetics |
| phonétiquement {adv} | :: phonetically |
| phonique {adj} | :: phonic |
| phoniquement {adv} | :: phonically |
| phonographe {m} | :: phonograph, gramophone (old-fashioned) |
| phonographie {f} | :: phonography |
| phonographié {adj} | :: recorded (on a gramophone record) |
| phonographique {adj} | :: phonographic |
| phonologie {f} [linguistics] | :: phonology |
| phonologique {adj} | :: phonological |
| phonologiquement {adv} | :: phonologically |
| phonologisation {f} | :: phonologization |
| phonologiser {v} | :: to phonologize |
| phonologue {mf} | :: phonologist |
| phonomètre {m} | :: phonometer |
| phonométrie {m} | :: phonometry |
| phoque {m} | :: seal (pinniped) |
| phoque {m} | :: sealskin (fabric made from fur of seals) |
| phoquier {adj} | :: of or relating to seals or seal hunting |
| phoquier {m} | :: sealship (boat or ship used for seal hunting) |
| -phore {suffix} | :: -phore |
| phosgène {m} [organic compound] | :: phosgene |
| phosphate {m} | :: phosphate |
| phosphaté {adj} | :: phosphate-enriched |
| phosphatémie {f} [pathology] | :: phosphatemia |
| phosphatidique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphatidic |
| phosphatidylsérine {f} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphatidylserine |
| phosphatier {adj} [attributive] | :: phosphate |
| phosphatier {m} | :: a ship used to transport phosphate |
| phosphatique {adj} | :: phosphatic |
| phosphépine {m} [organic compound] | :: phosphepine |
| phosphoacylglycérol {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphatidylglycerol |
| phosphocaséinate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphocaseinate |
| phosphoglycérate {f} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphoglycerate |
| phosphoglycéride {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphoglyceride |
| phosphoglycérique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phosphoglyceric |
| phosphogypse {m} | :: phosphogypsum |
| phospholipide {m} | :: phospholipid |
| phosphore {m} | :: phosphorus [element] |
| phosphoré {adj} | :: phosphorous (containing phosphorus) |
| phosphoré {adj} | :: phosphureted |
| phosphorescent {adj} | :: phosphorescent |
| phosphoreux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: phosphorous |
| phosphorique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: phosphoric |
| phosphorisation {f} | :: phosphorization |
| phosphoriser {v} | :: To phosphorize |
| phosphoryle {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: phosphoryl |
| phosphoryler {v} | :: To phosphorylate |
| phosphovinique {adj} [obsolete, chemistry] | :: phosphovinic |
| phosphure {m} | :: phosphide |
| phosphuré {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: phosphidic |
| photique {adj} | :: photic |
| photo- {prefix} | :: photo- (relating to to light) |
| photo- {prefix} | :: photo- (relating to to photography) |
| photo {f} | :: photo |
| photoamorcé {adj} [chemistry] | :: photoinitiated |
| photoamorcer {v} [chemistry] | :: To photoinitiate |
| photoamorceur {m} [chemistry] | :: photoinitiator |
| photobiologie {f} [biology] | :: photobiology |
| photobiologique {adj} [biology] | :: photobiological |
| photocellule {f} | :: photocell (photoelectric cell) |
| photochimie {f} [chemistry] | :: photochemistry |
| photochimique {adj} | :: photochemical |
| photochimiquement {adv} | :: photochemically |
| photochromatique {adj} | :: photochromatic |
| photochromatiquement {adv} | :: photochromatically |
| photoconducteur {m} [physics] | :: photoconductor |
| photoconducteur {adj} [physics] | :: photoconductive |
| photoconductif {adj} [physics] | :: photoconductive |
| photoconductivité {f} | :: photoconductivity |
| photocopie {f} | :: photocopy |
| photocopier {vt} | :: To photocopy |
| photocopieur {m} | :: photocopier (device) |
| photocopieuse {f} | :: photocopier (device) |
| photocyclisation {f} [chemistry] | :: photocyclization |
| photodésintégration {f} [physics] | :: photodisintegration |
| photodétecteur {m} | :: photodetector |
| photoélectricité {f} [physics] | :: photoelectricity |
| photoélectrique {adj} [physics] | :: photoelectric |
| photoélectrochimique {adj} [physics, chemistry] | :: photoelectrochemical |
| photogène {adj} | :: photogenic (all senses) |
| photogénique {adj} | :: photogenic (looking good when photographed) |
| photoglyptie {f} | :: Woodburytype |
| photogramme {m} | :: still, frame (individual photograph of a motion picture) |
| photogrammétrie {f} | :: photogrammetry |
| photographe {mf} | :: photographer |
| photographie {f} [uncountable] | :: photography |
| photographie {f} [countable] | :: photograph |
| photographier {v} | :: to photograph |
| photographique {adj} | :: photographic |
| photographique {adj} | :: photographical |
| photographiquement {adv} | :: photographically |
| photoioniser {v} | :: To photoionize |
| photojournaliste {mf} | :: photojournalist |
| photolithographie {f} | :: photolithography |
| photolithogravure {f} | :: photolithography |
| photoluminescent {adj} | :: photoluminescent |
| photomacrographie {f} | :: photomacrography |
| photomagnétique {adj} | :: photomagnetic |
| photomaton {m} | :: photo booth |
| photométéore {m} | :: photometeor |
| photomètre {m} | :: photometer |
| photométrie {f} | :: photometry |
| photométrique {adj} | :: photometric |
| photométriquement {adv} | :: photometrically |
| photomicrographie {f} | :: photomicrography |
| photomultiplicateur {m} | :: photomultiplier |
| photon {m} [particle] | :: photon |
| photonique {adj} [physics] | :: photonic |
| photooxydation {f} [chemistry] | :: photooxidation |
| photopériode {f} [biology] | :: photoperiod |
| photopériodique {adj} [biology] | :: photoperiodic |
| photopériodisme {m} [biology] | :: photoperiodism |
| photophile {adj} | :: photophilic |
| photophobie {f} | :: photophobia (excessive sensitivity to light) |
| photophore {m} [biology] | :: photophore |
| photopile {f} | :: solar cell, solar battery |
| photopolymère {m} [chemistry] | :: photopolymer |
| photopolymérisation {f} [chemistry] | :: photopolymerization |
| photopolymériser {v} [chemistry] | :: To photopolymerize |
| photoréactif {adj} | :: photoreactive |
| photoréactivité {f} [chemistry] | :: photoreactivity |
| photorécepteur {m} | :: photoreceptor |
| photoreportage {m} | :: photojournalism |
| photoreporter {mf} | :: photojournalist |
| photosensibilisation {f} | :: photosensitization |
| photosensibilité {f} | :: photosensitivity |
| photosensible {adj} | :: photosensitive |
| photoshoper {v} | :: To photoshop |
| photosphère {f} [astronomy] | :: photosphere |
| photosynthèse {f} | :: photosynthesis |
| photosynthétique {adj} | :: photosynthetic |
| photosynthétiquement {adv} | :: photosynthetically |
| phototaxie {f} | :: phototaxy |
| phototaxisme {m} | :: phototaxism |
| photothèque {f} | :: photo library |
| photothérapie {f} | :: phototherapy |
| phototropine {f} | :: phototropin |
| phototropisme {m} [biology] | :: phototropism |
| photovoltaïque {adj} | :: photovoltaic |
| phrase {f} | :: sentence |
| phrasé {m} | :: phrasing |
| phraséologie {f} | :: phraseology |
| phraser {v} | :: to phrase |
| phraser {v} [music] | :: to phrase |
| phraseur {m} | :: windbag (excessive talker) |
| phraseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of phraseur |
| phréatique {adj} [geology] | :: phreatic |
| phrénique {adj} [anatomy] | :: phrenic |
| phrénologie {f} | :: phrenology |
| phrénologique {adj} | :: phrenological |
| phrénologiquement {adv} | :: phrenologically |
| phrénologue {mf} | :: phrenologist |
| Phrygie {prop} | :: Phrygia |
| phrygien {adj} | :: Phrygian |
| phtalamide {f} [organic compound] | :: phthalamide |
| phtalate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: phthalate |
| phtalique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phthalic |
| phtalocyanine {f} [organic compound] | :: phthalocyanine |
| phthisique {adj} | :: phthisic |
| phthore {m} [obsolete, chemistry] | :: synonym of fluor |
| phtisie {f} [pathology] | :: phthisis, consumption |
| phtisique {adj} [medicine, archaic] | :: phthisical |
| Phung {prop} | :: surname |
| Phuong {prop} | :: surname |
| phycoérythrine {f} [organic compound] | :: phycoerythrin |
| phycologie {f} | :: phycology (the study of algae) |
| phycologiste {mf} [biology] | :: phycologist |
| phycotoxine {f} | :: phycotoxin |
| phylactère {m} | :: phylactery |
| phylactère {m} | :: speech bubble, thought bubble |
| phylétique {adj} | :: phyletic |
| phylloérythrine {m} [biochemistry] | :: phylloerythrin |
| phyllotrachée {f} [arachnology] | :: book lung |
| phylloxanthine {f} [organic compound] | :: phylloxanthin |
| phylloxéra {m} | :: phylloxera |
| phylogenèse {f} | :: phylogenesis |
| phylogénèse {f} | :: alternative form of phylogenèse |
| phylogénétique {adj} | :: phylogenetic |
| phylogénétiquement {adv} | :: phylogenetically |
| phylogénie {f} | :: phylogeny |
| phylogénique {adj} | :: phylogenic |
| phylogéographie {f} | :: phylogeography |
| phylogéographique {adj} | :: phylogeographical |
| phynance {f} [colloquial] | :: finance |
| physicalisation {f} | :: physicalization |
| physicien {m} | :: physicist |
| physicienne {f} | :: feminine noun of physicien |
| physicochimie {f} [physics, chemistry] | :: physical chemistry |
| physico-chimique {adj} [physics, chemistry] | :: physicochemical |
| physicochimique {adj} | :: alternative form of physico-chimique |
| physiocrate {mf} | :: physiocrat |
| physiognomonie {f} | :: physiognomy |
| physiognomonique {adj} | :: physiognomic, physiognomical |
| physiologie {f} | :: physiology (branch of biology) |
| physiologique {adj} | :: physiological |
| physiologiquement {adv} | :: physiologically |
| physiologiste {mf} | :: physiologist |
| physionomie {f} | :: face, physiognomy |
| physionomie {f} | :: facial expression, physiognomy |
| physionomie {f} | :: appearance, look, physiognomy |
| physionomiste {mf} | :: Someone with a good memory for faces |
| physionomiste {mf} [France] | :: A bouncer |
| physiopathologique {adj} | :: physiopathological |
| physiopathologiste {mf} | :: physiopathologist |
| physiothérapeute {mf} | :: physiotherapist |
| physiothérapie {f} | :: physiotherapy |
| physique {adj} | :: physical, sportive |
| physique {m} | :: physique |
| physique {f} | :: physics |
| physique des particules {f} | :: particle physics |
| physiquement {adv} | :: physically |
| phytanique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phytanic |
| phytochélatine {f} [protein] | :: phytochelatin |
| phytochimie {f} [chemistry] | :: phytochemistry |
| phytochimique {adj} [chemistry] | :: phytochemical |
| phytodiversité {f} [biology] | :: phytodiversity |
| phytolaque {f} | :: pokeweed or similar plant of the genus Phytolacca |
| phytologie {f} | :: phytology |
| phytoménadione {m} [organic compound] | :: phytomenadione (vitamin K1) |
| phytomère {m} [botany] | :: phytomere |
| phytomonique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: phytomonic |
| phytophage {adj} | :: phytophagous |
| phytopharmaceutique {adj} | :: phytopharmaceutical |
| phytoplancton {m} | :: phytoplankton |
| phytoplanctonique {adj} [biology] | :: phytoplanktonic |
| phytoremédiation {f} | :: phytoremediation |
| phytosanitaire {adj} | :: phytosanitary |
| phytosociologie {f} | :: phytosociology |
| phytostérol {m} [biochemistry] | :: phytosterol |
| phytothérapeute {mf} | :: phytotherapist |
| phytothérapie {f} | :: phytotherapy |
| phytotoxicité {f} | :: phytotoxicity |
| phytotronie {f} [biology] | :: phytotronics |
| phytotronique {adj} [biology] | :: phytotronic |
| pi {m} | :: pi (Greek letter) |
| pi {m} [mathematics] | :: pi |
| pi {conj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: alternative spelling of pis and |
| piaf {m} | :: sparrow |
| piaffement {m} | :: stamping, pawing the ground |
| piaffement {m} | :: prancing |
| piaffer {v} | :: (of horse) to stamp, paw the ground |
| piaffer {v} | :: (of person) to stamp one's feet |
| piagétien {adj} | :: Piagetian |
| piaillard {adj} [of a bird] | :: cheeping |
| piaillard {adj} [by extension, of a person] | :: whining, whiny |
| piaillement {m} | :: squawking, chirping, cheeping |
| piailler {v} | :: to cheep; to chirp |
| piailler {v} | :: to emit high pitched noise |
| pianiste {mf} | :: pianist |
| pianistique {adj} | :: pianistic |
| pianistique {f} | :: pianistics |
| pianistiquement {adv} | :: pianistically |
| piano {m} [musical instrument] | :: piano |
| piano à queue {m} [musical instruments] | :: grand piano (a piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp) |
| piano droit {m} | :: upright piano |
| pianoter {v} | :: to tap (hit lightly) |
| pianoter {v} [computing] | :: to type (use a computer keyboard) |
| piasse {f} [Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial] | :: alternative spelling of piastre |
| piastre {f} [historical] | :: piastre (one of several historical units of currency) |
| piastre {f} [Quebec, Louisiana French, colloquial] | :: buck, dollar. Former official Canadian French equivalent of the word dollar, as found on old currency |
| piaule {f} [colloquial] | :: pad, place |
| piaulement {m} | :: cheep, peep (sound) |
| piauler {vi} | :: alternative form of piailler |
| PIB {m} | :: GDP |
| pic {m} | :: woodpecker |
| pic {m} | :: pick (tool) |
| pic {m} | :: peak, summit |
| picador {m} [bullfighting] | :: picador |
| picage {m} | :: pecking |
| pic à glace {m} | :: icepick |
| picaillon {m} [colloquial, especially in plural] | :: cash, money |
| picamare {f} | :: picamar |
| picard {adj} | :: Picard (from Picardy) |
| picard {m} | :: Picard (language) |
| Picard {m} | :: Picard (person from Picardy) |
| Picard {prop} | :: surname |
| picardan {m} | :: A variety of white grape originally from Provence |
| Picarde {f} | :: feminine noun of Picard |
| Picardie {prop} {f} | :: Picardy |
| picaresquité {f} | :: picaresqueness |
| picaridine {f} | :: picaridin; synonym of icaridine |
| picène {m} [organic compound] | :: picene |
| pichenette {f} | :: flick |
| pichenotte {f} | :: flick |
| pichet {m} | :: jug |
| Pichet {prop} | :: surname |
| Pichette {prop} | :: surname |
| Pichilemu {prop} {m} | :: Pichilemu |
| pichon {m} [Provence] | :: small child |
| pichon {m} [Picardy] | :: fish (animal, foodstuff) |
| pichonne {f} | :: feminine noun of pichon |
| pickles {m} | :: pickle (pickled vegetable) |
| pickpocket {m} | :: pickpocket |
| pico- {prefix} | :: pico- |
| picocurie {m} | :: picocurie |
| picodon {m} | :: A flat, round cheese made from goat's milk |
| picokatal {m} | :: picokatal |
| picoler {v} [slang] | :: to drink |
| picolo {m} | :: alternative spelling of piccolo |
| picomètre {m} | :: picometer |
| picorer {v} [obsolete] | :: to maraud, pillage, rampage |
| picorer {v} | :: to nibble, peck (of birds, or figuratively) |
| Picot {prop} | :: surname |
| picotement {m} | :: a stinging sensation, a sting |
| picotement {m} [in the plural] | :: pins and needles |
| picoter {v} [of a bird] | :: to peck |
| picoter {v} [colloquial] | :: to bug, to pester, to annoy |
| picoter {v} | :: to itch, to prickle |
| picoter {v} | :: to tingle |
| picotin {m} | :: peck (dry measure) |
| picpoul {m} | :: A variety of white grape originally from the Languedoc |
| picquer {v} | :: obsolete spelling of piquer |
| picride {f} | :: A type of sunflower of the genus Picris |
| picrique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: picric |
| picrocholin {adj} | :: Describing a senseless conflict |
| picsou {m} [colloquial] | :: Scrooge |
| pictogrammatique {adj} | :: pictogrammatic |
| pictogramme {m} | :: pictogram (picture that represents a word or an idea) |
| pictographie {f} | :: pictography |
| picton {adj} | :: Picton |
| pictural {adj} | :: of or relating to painting |
| picturalement {adv} | :: pictorially |
| pic vert {m} | :: alternative spelling of pivert |
| pic-vert {m} | :: alternative spelling of pivert |
| picvert {m} | :: alternative spelling of pivert |
| pie {f} | :: magpie |
| Pie {prop} | :: Pius |
| PIE {m} | :: abbreviation of pistolet à impulsion électrique (taser) |
| PIÉ {m} | :: abbreviation of pistolet à impulsion électrique |
| pièce {f} | :: room (in a house, etc) |
| pièce {f} | :: piece |
| pièce {f} [money] | :: coin |
| pièce {f} | :: play (in a theatre) |
| pièce {f} [heraldry] | :: ordinary |
| pièce {f} [legal] | :: document, paper |
| pièce {f} | :: patch |
| pièce à conviction {f} [law] | :: piece of evidence, exhibit |
| pièce de monnaie {f} | :: coin |
| pièce de rechange {f} | :: spare part (component kept in reserve) |
| pièce de résistance {f} [idiomatic] | :: The finest part of something, especially a meal |
| pièce d'estomac {f} [chiefly historical] | :: stomacher |
| pièce de théâtre {f} | :: play (theatrical performance) |
| pièce jointe {f} [Internet] | :: attachment (email attachment) |
| pièce justificative {f} [legal] | :: proof of entitlement, a document proving something |
| pièce maîtresse {f} | :: showpiece |
| pièce maîtresse {f} [figuratively] | :: cornerstone |
| piécette {f} | :: small coin |
| piécette {f} | :: small room |
| pied {m} [anatomy] | :: foot |
| pied {m} | :: leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it) |
| pied {m} | :: An old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres |
| pied {m} | :: Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres) |
| pied {m} [poetry] | :: foot |
| pied-à-terre {m} | :: pied-à-terre |
| pied-bot {m} [pejorative] | :: a person with a clubfoot, a club-footed person |
| pied d'athlète {m} | :: athlete's foot |
| pied-de-biche {m} | :: crowbar |
| pied de mouche {m} | :: paragraph mark |
| pied-de-mouche {m} | :: pilcrow, ¶ (a paragraph mark) |
| pied de page {m} | :: footer (line of information at the bottom of a page) |
| piédestal {m} | :: pedestal |
| piedmontite {f} | :: alternative form of piémontite |
| pied noir {m} | :: pied noir |
| pieds d'argile {mp} [plurale tantum] | :: feet of clay |
| piège {m} | :: trap, snare, booby trap |
| piège {m} | :: pitfall |
| piège à clics {m} [Internet] | :: clickbait |
| piège à cons {m} [vulgar] | :: sucker trap |
| piégeage {m} | :: trapping |
| piéger {v} | :: to trap (catch in a trap) |
| piégeux {adj} | :: tricky |
| piégeux {adj} | :: dangerous |
| pie-grièche {m} | :: shrike (bird) |
| piémont {m} | :: foothill |
| piémontais {adj} | :: Piedmontese (related to Piedmont) |
| Piémontais {m} | :: a Piedmontese person |
| Piémontaise {f} | :: feminine noun of Piémontais |
| piémontite {f} [mineralogy] | :: piemontite |
| piercing {m} | :: a piercing |
| Piérie {prop} {f} | :: Pieria |
| pierrade {f} | :: A dish (a form of barbecue) in which thin slices of meat are cooked on a heated stone and served with sauces, salads, potatoes, etc |
| pierraille {f} | :: collection of small stones |
| pierre {f} | :: stone (substance) |
| pierre {f} | :: stone (a rock, a pebble) |
| Pierre {prop} {m} | :: Peter [biblical character] |
| Pierre {prop} {m} | :: given name traditionally popular in France |
| Pierre {prop} {m} | :: surname |
| pierre à aiguiser {f} | :: whetstone, hone |
| pierre angulaire {f} [architecture] | :: cornerstone |
| pierre angulaire {f} [figuratively] | :: cornerstone |
| pierre d'achoppement {f} | :: stumbling block |
| pierre d'angle {f} [architecture] | :: cornerstone |
| pierre d'angle {f} [figuratively] | :: cornerstone |
| pierre de lune {f} | :: moonstone (translucent gemstone) |
| pierre de taille {f} | :: cut stone, dressed stone, ashlar |
| pierre de touche {f} | :: touchstone |
| Pierre-Marie {prop} {m} | :: given name |
| pierre philosophale {f} [usually, uncountable] | :: philosopher's stone |
| pierre philosophale {f} [figurative, countable] | :: something impossible to find |
| pierre précieuse {f} | :: gemstone |
| pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse {proverb} | :: a rolling stone gathers no moss |
| pierreries {fp} [in the plural] | :: gems, gemstones |
| pierre tombale {f} | :: tombstone (stone on grave) |
| pierrette {f} [rare] | :: small stone; pebble (used in a children's game) |
| pierrette {f} [dated] | :: a type of white camisole |
| Pierrette {prop} | :: given name, a feminine diminutive form of Pierre |
| pierreuse {f} [slang] | :: knocking-shop |
| pierreux {adj} | :: stony, rocky |
| pierrier {m} | :: scree |
| Pierrot {prop} {m} | :: Diminutive of Pierre (Peter) |
| Pierrot {prop} {m} | :: A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit |
| piété {f} | :: piety (the condition and quality of being pious) |
| piétinement {m} | :: step (sound made by someone or something walking), pitter-patter |
| piétinement {m} | :: treading |
| piétiner {vi} | :: to stamp (make loud sounds by stepping) |
| piétiner {vi} | :: to shuffle (move forwards with short steps and with difficulty) |
| piétiner {vi} [figuratively] | :: to make no headway, to go into a dead end |
| piétiner {vt} | :: to trample (underfoot) |
| piétiste {mf} | :: pietist |
| piétiste {adj} | :: pietist (attributive) |
| piéton {m} | :: pedestrian |
| piétonne {f} | :: feminine noun of piéton |
| piétonner {v} | :: To walk (go on foot) |
| piétonnier {adj} | :: pedestrianized / pedestrianised |
| piètre {adj} | :: poor; lousy (of low quality) |
| piètre {adj} [archaic] | :: pitiful |
| piètrement {adv} | :: poorly |
| pieu {m} | :: post; stake |
| pieu {m} [slang] | :: bed; sack |
| pieusement {adv} | :: piously |
| pieuter {vi} [slang] | :: To sleep (in bed) |
| pieuter {vr} [slang] | :: To go to bed; to crash out, hit the hay |
| pieuvre {f} | :: octopus |
| pieux {adj} | :: pious |
| pieux mensonge {m} | :: white lie |
| piézochimie {f} [chemistry] | :: piezochemistry |
| piézoélectricité {f} [physics] | :: piezoelectricity |
| piézoélectrique {adj} [physics] | :: piezoelectric |
| piézomagnétique {adj} [physics] | :: piezomagnetic |
| piézomagnétisme {m} [physics] | :: piezomagnetism |
| piézométrique {adj} | :: piezometric |
| piézonucléaire {adj} [physics] | :: piezonuclear |
| piézophile {mf} | :: piezophile |
| piézophile {adj} | :: piezophilic |
| pif {m} | :: (slang for nose) conk, hooter, schnozzle |
| pif {m} | :: nose, intuition |
| piffer {vt} [colloquial, normally used in the negative] | :: to stand, put up with |
| pifomètre {m} [colloquial] | :: intuitive estimate or approximation |
| pige {f} | :: measure |
| pige {f} [colloquial] | :: year (of age) |
| pige {f} [colloquial] | :: year (period of time in general) |
| pigé {interj} | :: capisce? |
| pigeon {m} | :: pigeon |
| pigeon {m} [colloquial] | :: a patsy (an easily trickable, naive person) |
| pigeonnant {adj} [of a bra] | :: uplift (attributive) |
| pigeonnant {adj} | :: pigeon-chested |
| pigeonneau {m} | :: squab (young pigeon) |
| pigeonner {v} [colloquial] | :: To take for a ride or dupe (the person being duped is the pigeon) |
| pigeonnier {m} | :: dovecote |
| piger {v} [colloquial] | :: to understand : to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on |
| piger {v} [Canada] | :: to choose at random : to draw |
| pigiste {mf} | :: freelance journalist |
| pigiste {adj} | :: freelance (journalist, writer) |
| pigment {m} | :: pigment, coloring substance |
| pigmentaire {adj} | :: Of or relating to pigment, pigmentary |
| pigmenter {vt} | :: to pigment |
| pignistique {adj} [statistics] | :: pignistic |
| pignocher {vi} | :: to pick at one's food |
| pignon {m} | :: pine nut, pine kernel |
| pignon {m} | :: gable |
| pignon {m} | :: gearwheel, pinion, sprocket |
| pika {m} | :: pika |
| pilaire {adj} [biology] | :: piliated |
| Pilates {m} | :: Pilates |
| pile {f} | :: heap, stack (as in pile de cartons) |
| pile {f} | :: pillar |
| pile {f} | :: battery (as in pile électrique) |
| pile {f} | :: tails (of a coin; mainly used in pile ou face, "heads or tails") |
| pile {f} [heraldiccharge] | :: pile |
| pile {adv} [colloquial] | :: just, exactly |
| pile {adv} [colloquial] | :: dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack |
| pile ou face {phrase} | :: heads or tails |
| pile-poil {adv} [colloquial] | :: smack-dab, smack bang |
| piler {vt} [cooking] | :: to crush |
| piler {vi} | :: to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop |
| pileux {adj} | :: hair (attributive) |
| pilier {m} | :: pillar |
| pilier {m} [rugby] | :: prop |
| piligère {adj} [biology] | :: piligerous |
| piline {f} [protein] | :: pilin |
| pillage {m} | :: pillage |
| pillard {m} | :: pillager, looter |
| pillarde {f} | :: feminine noun of pillard |
| piller {v} | :: to plunder; to pillage |
| pilleur {m} | :: a plunderer |
| pilleur {adj} | :: plundering; plunderous |
| piloche {f} [slang] | :: gnasher, tooth |
| pilon {m} | :: pestle |
| pilon {m} | :: wooden leg |
| pilon {m} | :: thigh (the thigh bone of poultry meat) |
| pilonnage {m} [military] | :: shelling, bombardment |
| pilonnage {m} [cooking] | :: pounding, crushing |
| pilonner {v} | :: to bombard, to shell |
| pilonner {v} | :: to grind, to pound |
| pilori {m} | :: pillory; stocks |
| pilorier {vt} | :: to pillory |
| piloselle {f} | :: A type of hawkweed Hieracium pilosella |
| pilosité {m} | :: pilosity, hairiness |
| pilotage {m} | :: pilotage (all senses); piloting |
| pilote {m} | :: pilot (controller of aircraft) |
| pilote {m} | :: pilot (controller of vessel) |
| pilote de brousse {m} | :: bush pilot |
| piloter {v} | :: to pilot (control an aircraft) |
| piloter {v} | :: to pilot (control a vessel) |
| piloter {v} | :: to drive (control a vehicle) |
| pilotis {m} [architecture] | :: piloti |
| pilule {f} | :: pill (small object to be swallowed) |
| pilule {f} [with the definite article la] | :: the contraceptive pill |
| pilule du lendemain {f} | :: morning-after pill |
| pimarique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pimaric |
| pimbêche {f} | :: minx (impertinent woman) |
| piment {m} [cooking] | :: spice |
| piment {m} | :: chili, chili pepper |
| piment {m} [figuratively] | :: spice (vigour) |
| piment de Cayenne {m} | :: cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens) |
| piment enragé {m} [Louisiana French] | :: cayenne pepper |
| pimenter {v} [cooking] | :: to spice, to season with spices |
| pimenter {v} [figuratively] | :: to spice up, to make more extravagant or exotic |
| pimpant {adj} | :: spruce, dapper, dashing |
| pimper {vr} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish] | :: to dress well |
| pimprelocher {vt} | :: to style hair in a ridiculous manner |
| pimprenelle {f} | :: burnet (Sanguisorba minor) |
| pin {m} | :: pine, pine tree |
| pinacle {m} | :: pinnacle, top |
| pinacothèque {f} | :: art gallery |
| pinacothèque {f} | :: pinacotheca |
| pinailler {vi} [colloquial] | :: nitpick, split hairs (to correct minutiae or find fault) |
| pinailleur {adj} | :: nitpicking |
| pinailleur {m} | :: nitpicker |
| pinard {m} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: plonk (cheap wine) |
| pinard {m} [by extension] | :: any wine |
| Pinard {prop} | :: surname |
| pinauculmettable {adj} | :: alternative spelling of pinocumettable |
| pinaucumettable {adj} | :: alternative spelling of pinocumettable |
| pince {f} | :: pincer, claw |
| pince {f} | :: pliers |
| pince {f} | :: tongs |
| pince {f} | :: crowbar |
| pince à épiler {f} | :: tweezers |
| pince à linge {f} | :: clothes peg |
| pinceau {m} | :: paintbrush |
| pincée {f} | :: a pinch, a tiny amount |
| pince-fesses {m} [dated, slang] | :: dance, hop |
| pincement {m} | :: pang, twinge |
| pince-nez {m} [dated, literary] | :: pince-nez |
| pince-nez {m} | :: noseclip |
| pincer {v} | :: to pinch (skin) |
| pincer {v} [colloquial] | :: to pinch (to arrest) |
| pincer {v} [music] | :: To pluck (a stringed instrument) |
| pince-sans-rire {adj} | :: dry, deadpan |
| pincette {f} | :: tongs (for fire) |
| pincette {f} | :: tweezers |
| pinchinelle {f} | :: A type of carline thistle (Carlina acanthifolia) |
| pinçon {m} | :: pinch, nip (mark on the skin) |
| Pindare {prop} {m} | :: Pindar |
| pindarique {adj} | :: Pindaric |
| pine {f} [slang] | :: nob, penis |
| pinéal {adj} | :: pineal |
| pinéal {m} | :: pineal |
| pineau {m} | :: pineau |
| pinède {f} | :: pine wood or forest |
| pinène {m} [organic compound] | :: pinene |
| piner {v} [vulgar] | :: to fuck, to dick |
| pingouin {m} [scientific context] | :: auk, razorbill (Arctic sea bird from the Alcidae family) |
| pingouin {m} [colloquial] | :: penguin |
| ping-pong {m} | :: ping pong; table tennis |
| pingre {adj} | :: miserly, stingy |
| pingrerie {f} | :: stinginess |
| pinique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pinic |
| pinocchioter dans le slibard {v} [slang] | :: to have an unwanted erection visible through one's pants |
| Pinochet {prop} | :: surname |
| pinocumettable {adj} [vulgar] | :: fuckable, shaggable |
| pinoléique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pinoleic |
| pinolénique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pinolenic |
| Pinot {prop} | :: surname |
| pinotte {f} [Québec] | :: peanut, goober (a legume resembling a nut) |
| pinson {m} | :: a finch |
| Pinsonneault {prop} | :: surname |
| Pintac {prop} | :: A commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France |
| pintade {f} | :: guinea fowl |
| pinte {f} [Canada] | :: quart |
| pinte {f} [Canada, slang] | :: litre |
| pinte {f} [France] | :: pint |
| pinte {f} [France] | :: bottle of beer or wine with capacity of 50 centiliters, equivalent to ⅔ standard bottles |
| pinter {v} [colloquial] | :: To get drunk |
| pin-up {f} | :: pin-up [woman in a photograph] |
| pin-up {f} | :: babe (sexually attractive woman) |
| pioche {f} | :: pickaxe |
| pioche {f} [card games] | :: stock |
| piocher {v} | :: to use a pickaxe |
| piocher {v} | :: to cram, to swot, to grind (e.g., for an exam) |
| piocher {v} | :: to slog away, drudge (to work very hard) |
| piocher {v} | :: to pick, choose, select from a set of options |
| piocher {v} [card games] | :: to draw from the deck |
| Piogre {prop} {m} [Switzerland] | :: An imaginary, exceedingly remote town; Timbuktu |
| piolet {m} [climbing] | :: piolet |
| pion {m} [chess] | :: pawn |
| pion {m} [figuratively] | :: pawn |
| pion {m} [particle] | :: pion |
| pion {m} [game] | :: counter |
| pion {m} [colloquial] | :: supervisor (in a school) |
| pioncer {vi} [slang] | :: To be sleeping |
| pioncer {vr} [slang] | :: To go to sleep; to crash out, hit the hay |
| pionique {adj} [physics] | :: pionic |
| pionner {v} [chess, checkers] | :: to exchange (a piece) |
| pionnier {m} [military] | :: pioneer, soldier employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances |
| pionnier {m} | :: pioneer, one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow |
| pionnier {m} | :: precursor |
| pionnier {m} [communism] | :: pioneer, child of 10-16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party |
| pionnier {adj} | :: pioneering, avant-garde |
| pionnier {adj} | :: first to colonize |
| pionnière {f} | :: feminine noun of pionnier |
| piorner {v} [Switzerland] | :: to whine, moan |
| pipe {f} | :: tobacco pipe |
| pipe {f} [vulgar] | :: blowjob |
| pipe {m} | :: the pipe symbol (|) |
| pipeau {m} [musical instruments] | :: pipe |
| pipeau {m} | :: reed |
| pipelette {f} | :: chatterbox |
| pipe-line {m} | :: alternative spelling of pipeline |
| pipeline {m} | :: oil pipeline |
| pipérade {f} | :: piperade (Basque dish of onions, green peppers, and tomatoes sautéed in olive oil and flavoured with Espelette pepper) |
| pipérazine {m} [organic compound] | :: piperazine |
| pipéridine {m} [organic compound] | :: piperidine |
| piperin {m} [organic compound] | :: piperine |
| pipette {f} [sciences] | :: pipette |
| pipi {m} [chiefly uncountable] | :: wee, wee-wee, pee |
| pipit {m} | :: pipit |
| pipole {adj} | :: famous, related to famous people |
| pipole {m} | :: celebrity |
| piquage {m} | :: pricking |
| piquage {m} | :: stinging |
| piquamment {adv} | :: piquantly |
| piquant {adj} | :: Spiky, spiny |
| piquant {adj} | :: Of food: piquant, spicy |
| piquant {adj} | :: Cold; ice-cold |
| piquant {adj} | :: Of humor, a joke, etc.: scathing |
| piquant {adj} [usually, of a person] | :: attractive |
| pique {f} | :: pike, lance |
| pique {f} [card games] | :: spade (as a card suit) |
| piqué {m} | :: dive (of an airplane) |
| piqué {m} [textiles, couture] | :: two fabrics stitched together to make a pattern, or a single fabric imitating this effect |
| piquebois {m} [Louisiana French, ] | :: woodpecker |
| pique-nique {m} | :: picnic (a meal eaten outdoors) |
| piqueniqueur {m} | :: picnicker (someone having a picnic) |
| piquer {v} | :: to prick (pierce with a prick) |
| piquer {v} | :: to sting (feel a stinging pain) |
| piquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to nick, pinch, steal |
| piquer {vr} | :: to pride oneself on; to like to think that one can do (+ de) |
| piquer {v} [textiles, couture] | :: to stitch together |
| piquer au vif {v} | :: to arouse, to excite |
| piquer au vif {v} | :: to cut to the quick |
| piquer du nez {v} [figuratively, of an aircraft] | :: to nosedive, to take a nosedive |
| piquer du nez {v} [figuratively, of a person, colloquial] | :: to nod off, to doze off, to fall asleep (to nosedive because one is falling asleep) |
| piquer une colère {v} [idiomatic] | :: to fly into a rage |
| piquer un roupillon {v} [idiomatic] | :: [colloquial] to get asleep |
| piquet {m} | :: picket |
| piquet {m} [education] | :: A school punishment in which a student has to remain standing for some time by a tree or a wall, usually in the corner of the classroom |
| piqueté {adj} | :: spotted or dotted (with) |
| piquette {f} | :: A drink of marc and water |
| piquette {f} [colloquial] | :: plonk (cheap wine) |
| piqueupe {m} | :: pickup (electronic device) |
| piqueur {adj} | :: itchy |
| piqueur {adj} | :: stinging |
| piqueur {m} | :: whipper-in |
| piquier {m} [historical] | :: pikeman |
| piqure {f} | :: alternative spelling of piqûre |
| piqûre {f} | :: injection |
| piqûre {f} | :: sting |
| piquure {f} [archaic, obsolete] | :: alternative spelling of piqûre |
| piratage {m} | :: piracy |
| piratage {m} [computing] | :: hacking, unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network |
| piratage informatique {m} [computing] | :: hacking, unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network |
| pirate {mf} | :: pirate |
| pirate de l'air {mf} | :: a skyjacker |
| pirate informatique {mf} [computing] | :: a hacker, one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data |
| pirater {v} | :: to pirate |
| pirater {v} [computing] | :: to hack (into) |
| piraterie {f} | :: piracy (the business of being a pirate) |
| piraterie {f} | :: piracy (an act done by pirates) |
| pire {adj} | :: worse |
| pire {m} [le pire] | :: the worst |
| piriforme {adj} | :: pyriform |
| pirogue {f} | :: pirogue made by hollowing a log |
| pirogue {f} | :: any canoe |
| pirojki {m} | :: pirozhki |
| piroplasme {m} [epidemiology] | :: piroplasma |
| piroplasmide {m} [biology] | :: piroplasmid |
| pirouette {f} | :: A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing |
| pirouette {f} [sports, equestrians] | :: A whirling volt movement made by a horse |
| pirouetter {vi} | :: to pirouette |
| pirouetter {vi} | :: to pivot |
| pis {adv} | :: worse |
| pis {m} | :: udder |
| pis {conj} [Quebec, Acadian, Louisiana French, Missouri, colloquial] | :: and, besides |
| pis-aller {m} | :: a make-do, a less than optimal solution, a workaround |
| pis-aller {m} | :: plan B; a last resort |
| pis-aller {m} | :: worst-case scenario, the worst that could happen |
| piscicole {adj} | :: piscicultural |
| pisciculture {f} | :: pisciculture (the rearing of fish) |
| piscine {f} | :: swimming pool |
| piscine {f} | :: piscina |
| piscine à débordement {f} | :: overflow pool, perimeter-overflow pool |
| piscivore {adj} | :: piscivorous, fish-eating |
| piscivore {mf} | :: piscivore |
| pisco {m} | :: pisco |
| Pise {prop} {m} | :: Pisa (town in Italy) |
| Pise {prop} {m} | :: Pisa (province of Italy) |
| pisé {m} | :: adobe |
| Pisidie {prop} | :: Pisidia |
| pissaladière {f} | :: pissaladière (pizza-like pie from southern France) |
| pissant {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: funny |
| Pissarro {prop} | :: surname |
| pisse {f} [vulgar] | :: piss |
| pisse-froid {m} [figuratively, very colloquial] | :: a cold fish, a wet blanket |
| pissenlit {m} | :: dandelion |
| pisser {vit} [slang] | :: to piss |
| pisser {vt} | :: to pour with (some liquid) |
| pisseur {m} | :: pisser (one who pisses) |
| pisseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of pisseur |
| pisseuse {f} [colloquial, pejorative] | :: young girl |
| pisse-vinaigre {m} [figuratively] | :: a grouch, a crosspatch, a sourpuss |
| pissoir {m} [slang] | :: bog, john |
| pissotière {f} | :: public urinal |
| pistache {f} | :: pistachio (nut) |
| pistache {f} [Louisiana French, ] | :: peanut |
| pistachier {m} | :: pistachio (shrub) |
| pistage {m} | :: tracking |
| pistard {m} [cycling] | :: track cyclist |
| pistarde {f} | :: feminine noun of pistard |
| piste {f} | :: a track or trail left by an animal or person |
| piste {f} | :: a lead in a police investigation |
| piste {f} | :: a runway for aircraft |
| piste {f} | :: a track on a recording |
| piste {f} | :: a racecourse |
| piste {f} | :: a ring in a circus |
| piste {f} | :: the floor used for various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing |
| piste {f} | :: piste (for skiing) |
| piste courte {f} | :: short track (type of speed skating) |
| piste cyclable {f} [in town] | :: bicycle path, bike path, cycle lane, bikeway |
| piste cyclable {f} [in the countryside] | :: cycle track, bike trail |
| piste de danse {f} | :: dance floor |
| pister {vt} | :: to track (an animal) |
| pister {vt} | :: to track (a person) |
| pisteur {m} | :: tracker (one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game) |
| pistil {m} | :: pistil |
| pistil {m} | :: stamen |
| Pistoia {prop} | :: Pistoia (province) |
| Pistoia {prop} | :: Pistoia (town) |
| pistole {f} [historical] | :: pistole (coin) |
| pistolet {m} | :: gun, pistol |
| pistolet {m} | :: spray gun |
| pistolet {m} | :: weird person |
| pistolet à air {m} | :: air pistol |
| pistolet à impulsion électrique {m} | :: taser (electroshock stun gun) |
| pistolet-mitrailleur {m} | :: submachine gun |
| piston {m} | :: piston |
| piston {m} [colloquial] | :: contact, connection |
| pistonner {vt} [colloquial] | :: to put in a good word for somebody, to pull strings for somebody (apply influence) |
| pitance {f} | :: pittance |
| pitbull {m} | :: pitbull /pit bull/ (dog) |
| pitch {m} | :: pitch (sales patter, inclination) |
| pitchpin {m} | :: pitch pine |
| pitête {adv} [rare] | :: alternative spelling of peut-être |
| piteusement {adv} | :: piteously |
| piteusement {adv} | :: miserably |
| piteux {adj} | :: pitiful |
| piteux {adj} | :: rundown |
| piteux {adj} | :: piteous |
| pithécanthropique {adj} | :: pithecanthropic |
| pithécanthropiquement {adv} | :: pithecanthropically |
| pitié {f} | :: pity, mercy |
| pitit {m} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, ] | :: alternative spelling of petit, child |
| piton {m} | :: nail (metal object) |
| piton {m} | :: spike, pick (especially for mountaineering) |
| pitonner {v} | :: to piton |
| pitou {m} [babytalk, Quebec] | :: doggie |
| pitou {m} [endearment, Quebec] | :: puppy |
| pitoune {f} [Quebec, occasionally pejorative] | :: A pretty woman, a bimbo |
| pitoune {f} | :: A felled log ready to be floated to the mill |
| pitoyable {adj} | :: pitiful; pathetic, contemptible |
| pitoyablement {adv} | :: pitifully |
| pitoyablement {adv} | :: pathetically |
| pitre {m} | :: clown, buffoon |
| pitrerie {f} | :: tomfoolery |
| pittacale {m} [organic compound] | :: pittacal |
| pittoresque {adj} | :: picturesque |
| pittoresque {mf} | :: Someone or something that is picturesque |
| pittoresquement {adv} | :: picturesquely |
| pittospore {m} | :: pittosporum |
| pituitaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: pituitary |
| pituite {f} [historical] | :: phlegm |
| pituite {f} [medicine] | :: mucus |
| pivalique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pivalic |
| pive {f} [Switzerland] | :: conifer cone |
| pivert {m} | :: woodpecker, Picus viridis |
| pivoine {f} | :: peony |
| pivot {m} | :: pivot |
| pivot {m} | :: fulcrum |
| pivot {m} | :: lynchpin |
| pivot {m} [basketball] | :: center |
| pivotage {m} [maths] | :: pivot operation (in a simplex algorithm) |
| pivotant {adj} | :: swivel, pivoting |
| pivotant {adj} | :: pivotal |
| pivoter {vi} | :: to pivot, swivel, revolve |
| pivoter {vi} | :: to turn on one's heel |
| pixel {m} [computing] | :: pixel |
| pixellisation {f} | :: pixelation |
| pixelliser {v} | :: to pixelate |
| pizza {f} | :: pizza |
| pizza hawaïenne {f} | :: Hawaiian pizza |
| pizza margherita {f} | :: margherita pizza |
| pizza Margherita {f} | :: alternative case form of pizza margherita |
| pizza poutine {f} | :: poutine pizza (a pizza topped with poutine (gravy, french fries, cheese curds)) |
| pizza québécoise {f} [Quebec, cuisine] | :: Quebecoise pizza (with pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms) |
| pizzeria {f} | :: pizzeria |
| pizzéria {f} | :: pizzeria |
| pk {adv} [Internet slang, text messaging] | :: abbreviation of pourquoi, why |
| pkoi {adv} [Internet slang, texting] | :: alternative spelling of pourquoi |
| plaçable {adj} | :: placeable; that can be put or placed |
| placage {m} | :: veneer (thin covering of fine wood) |
| placage {m} [sports] | :: tackle |
| plaçage {m} | :: plaçage |
| placard {m} | :: a cupboard, cabinet or closet built against or into a wall |
| placard {m} | :: an ad that is felt to be injurious, seditious or in otherwise bad taste |
| placard {m} [dated] | :: a placard |
| placardage {m} | :: billposting (sticking of posters) |
| placarder {vt} | :: to post, put up |
| placarder {vt} | :: to plaster |
| placardiser {v} | :: To gradually remove the powers and responsibilities of an employee |
| place {f} | :: place, square, plaza, piazza |
| place {f} | :: place, space, room |
| place {f} | :: place, seat |
| placebo {m} | :: placebo |
| place d'armes {f} [military] | :: parade ground |
| place d'armes {f} | :: An assembly point for troops |
| place d'armes {f} | :: An arsenal |
| placement {m} | :: placement |
| placement de produit {m} [marketing] | :: product placement |
| placentaire {adj} | :: placental |
| placentaire {m} | :: placental |
| placer {v} | :: to place (to put in a specific location) |
| placer {v} | :: to seat (To put an object into a place where it will rest) |
| placer {vr} | :: to place (to earn a given spot in a competition) |
| placet {m} [historical] | :: petition, appeal |
| placidement {adv} | :: placidly |
| placidité {f} | :: placidity, placidness |
| placier {m} | :: canvasser |
| placier {m} | :: rep |
| placière {f} | :: feminine noun of placier |
| placoplâtre {m} | :: plasterboard |
| placoter {vi} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to chat, chatter |
| plafond {m} | :: ceiling |
| plafonnement {m} | :: cap, capping, setting an upper limit |
| plafonner {vt} | :: to cap (put an upper limit on) |
| plafonner {vi} | :: to reach one's upper limit |
| plafonnier {m} | :: light (ceiling light) |
| plage {f} | :: beach |
| plage {f} [mathematics] | :: range |
| plagiaire {mf} | :: plagiarist |
| plagiat {m} | :: plagiarism |
| plagier {v} | :: to plagiarize |
| plagiocéphale {adj} [anatomy] | :: plagiocephalic |
| plagiocéphalie {f} [anatomy] | :: plagiocephaly |
| plagiotropisme {m} [biology] | :: plagiotropism |
| plagiste {mf} | :: beachgoer (someone who goes to the beach) |
| plaider {v} | :: to plead |
| plaideur {m} | :: litigant |
| plaideuse {f} | :: litigant (female) |
| plaidoirie {f} | :: oral argument (court) |
| plaidoyer {m} [legal] | :: speech for the defence |
| plaidoyer {m} [figuratively] | :: plea |
| plaie {f} | :: open wound |
| plaie {f} | :: scourge |
| plaïe {f} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, ] | :: alternative form of plage, beach |
| plaignant {m} [legal] | :: plaintiff; prosecutor |
| plaignant {adj} [legal] | :: prosecuting |
| plaigner {v} [nonstandard, colloquial] | :: alternative form of plaindre |
| plain {adj} [obsolete] | :: plane |
| plaindre {v} | :: to pity |
| plaindre {vr} | :: to complain |
| plaine {f} | :: plain |
| plainte {f} | :: complaint |
| plainte {f} | :: moan, groan |
| plainte {f} [legal] | :: (criminal) complaint |
| plaintif {adj} | :: plaintive, doleful |
| plaintivement {adv} | :: plaintively |
| plaire {vi} | :: (followed by à or preceded by an indirect object) to please (usually translated into English as like with exchange of the subject and object) |
| plaire {vr} | :: to enjoy (oneself) |
| plaisamment {adv} | :: pleasantly; pleasingly |
| plaisamment {adv} | :: jokingly, jestingly |
| Plaisance {prop} | :: surname |
| plaisancier {m} [nautical] | :: boater, amateur sailor |
| plaisancière {f} | :: feminine noun of plaisancier |
| plaisant {adj} | :: pleasing; pleasant |
| plaisanter {v} | :: to joke (make a joke) |
| plaisanterie {f} | :: joke |
| plaisanterie {f} | :: jest; fun |
| plaisanterie {f} | :: pleasantry; joking |
| plaisanterie {f} | :: jesting; kidding |
| plaisantin {m} | :: joker, wag |
| plaisantin {m} | :: wiseass, smart aleck |
| plaisir {m} | :: pleasure |
| Plaisir {prop} | :: Plaisir (town) |
| plan {m} | :: plan |
| plan {m} | :: map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.) |
| plan {m} | :: plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane) |
| plan {m} [cinema] | :: shot |
| plan {m} [slang, dated] | :: A small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search |
| plan {adj} | :: planar |
| planaire {adj} [mathematics] | :: planar |
| planant {adj} | :: hovering |
| planche {f} | :: board |
| planche {f} | :: spread (picture covering a whole page) |
| planche {f} | :: plank |
| planche {f} | :: woodcut |
| planche {f} | :: board (used for sport, e.g. skateboard or surfboard) |
| planche {f} [figuratively] | :: plank, beanpole (very thin person) |
| planche à beurre {f} | :: butter paddle |
| planche à laver {f} [musical instruments] | :: washboard |
| planche à pain {f} | :: breadboard |
| planche à repasser {f} | :: ironing board |
| planche à repasser {f} [figuratively, slightly offensive] | :: a woman without curves, flat as a pancake |
| planche à roulettes {f} | :: skateboard |
| plancher {m} | :: floor |
| plancher {m} | :: lower limit |
| plancher {m} [anatomy] | :: floor |
| plancher {vi} | :: to talk |
| Planchet {prop} [rare] | :: given name |
| planchette {f} | :: small plank |
| planchette à pince {f} | :: clipboard |
| planchiste {mf} | :: boarder |
| planchiste {mf} | :: snowboarder |
| planchiste {mf} | :: skateboarder |
| planckien {adj} [physics] | :: Planckian |
| plan comptable {m} | :: chart of accounts |
| plançon {m} | :: A medieval French infantry weapon, primarily used for smashing and thrusting |
| Plançon {prop} | :: surname |
| plancton {m} [biology] | :: plankton |
| planctonique {adj} | :: planktonic |
| plan cul {m} [vulgar] | :: fuck buddy (sexual relationship without further emotional attachment) |
| plan d'eau {m} | :: lake, pond, stretch of smooth water |
| plan de cuisson {m} [cooking] | :: hob, stovetop |
| plan de faille {m} [geology] | :: fault plane |
| plan de niveau {m} | :: floor plan |
| plan d'épargne {m} | :: savings plan |
| plan de travail {m} | :: work plan, schedule |
| plan de travail {m} | :: worksurface |
| plan de vol {m} | :: flight plan |
| plan directeur {m} | :: blueprint; master plan |
| plan directeur {m} [military] | :: map of the combat area |
| plan d'urgence {m} | :: contingency plan |
| planer {v} | :: to glide, to hover |
| planer {v} | :: to be entranced, to be mesmerized |
| planer {v} [slang, of a drug user] | :: to be high |
| planer {v} [slang] | :: to be going well; to run smoothly |
| planère {f} | :: A form of Siberian elm (Planera crenata) |
| planétaire {adj} | :: planetary |
| planétaire {m} [astronomy] | :: orrery |
| planétaire {m} [automobile] | :: epicyclic gear, planetary gear |
| planétarium {m} | :: planetarium |
| planète {f} | :: planet |
| planète naine {f} | :: dwarf planet |
| planétésimal {m} [astronomy] | :: planetesimal |
| planétoide {m} [astronomy] | :: A planetoid, an asteroid large enough to be seen as a small planet |
| planétoïde {m} | :: planetoid |
| planétologie {f} | :: planetology |
| planétologue {mf} | :: planetologist |
| planeur {m} | :: glider (aircraft) |
| planeur {m} | :: planer (tool) |
| plan fixe {m} [cinema] | :: static shot |
| planificateur {m} | :: planner |
| planificateur {adj} | :: planning |
| planification {f} | :: planning (act of making a plan) |
| planifier {v} | :: to plan ahead, to prepare oneself |
| plan incliné {m} | :: inclined plane |
| planisphère {m} | :: planisphere |
| planning {m} | :: schedule, work plan |
| planogamie {f} [biology] | :: planogamy |
| planquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to hide |
| planquer {v} [colloquial] | :: to spy, to snoop |
| plan rapproché {m} [photography, film] | :: close-up |
| plant {m} | :: seedling |
| plant {m} | :: young plant or plantation |
| plantage {m} | :: the action of planting |
| plantage {m} [computing] | :: crash |
| plantain {m} | :: plantain, any plant of genus Plantago |
| plantain {m} | :: plantain [fruit of the genus Musa] |
| plantaire {adj} [anatomy] | :: plantar |
| plantation {f} | :: planting |
| plantation {f} | :: plantation |
| plante {f} | :: sole of the foot |
| plante {f} | :: plant |
| plante d'intérieur {f} | :: houseplant |
| planter {vt} | :: to plant |
| planter {vt} | :: to drive in (a nail, stake etc.) |
| planter {vt} | :: to pitch (a tent) |
| planter {vit} [computing] | :: to crash |
| planter {vr} [colloquial, se planter] | :: to fall off |
| planter {vr} [colloquial, se planter] | :: to fail, to not succeed |
| planter {vr} [colloquial, se planter, a vehicle and etc] | :: to break down |
| planter {vt} [slang] | :: to stab with a knife |
| planteur {m} | :: planter |
| planteuse {f} | :: planter (for potatoes etc) |
| plantier {m} | :: vine (plant) |
| planton {m} | :: orderly |
| plantureusement {adv} | :: curvaceously |
| plantureusement {adv} | :: copiously, lavishly |
| plantureux {adj} | :: buxom, curvaceous |
| plantureux {adj} | :: copious, lavish |
| plantureux {adj} | :: fertile |
| plaquage {m} | :: plating (adding a plate to e.g. metal) |
| plaquage {m} [rugby] | :: tackle |
| plaque {f} | :: sheet, plate (of metal) |
| plaque {f} | :: slab (of marble) |
| plaque {f} | :: plaque (bacteria on teeth) |
| plaque {f} | :: plaque, slab (ornamental) |
| plaque {f} | :: (casino) chip |
| plaque {f} [electrics, photography] | :: plate |
| plaque {f} [geology] | :: plate (especially a tectonic plate) |
| plaque {f} | :: slab, bar (of e.g. chocolate) |
| plaque {f} [slang] | :: 10,000 francs |
| plaque {f} | :: (Cooking; gas, electric) burner (US), ring (Britain) |
| plaquebière {f} | :: cloudberry [plant] |
| plaquebière {f} | :: cloudberry, bakeapple [fruit] |
| plaque d'égout {f} | :: manhole |
| plaque d'immatriculation {f} | :: license plate |
| plaqueminier {m} | :: Asian persimmon, Diospyros kaki |
| plaquer {v} | :: to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material) |
| plaquer {v} [rugby] | :: To tackle |
| plaquer {v} [martial arts] | :: To grapple |
| plaquer {v} [colloquial] | :: To leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone |
| plaquettaire {adj} | :: platelet (attributive) |
| plaquette {f} | :: packet [of butter]; strip, blister pack [of pills] |
| plaquette {f} [hematology, cytology] | :: platelet |
| plaquette {f} [automobile, ~ de frein] | :: brake pad |
| plaquette de frein {f} | :: brake pad |
| plaquiste {m} | :: A builder who erects plasterboard (or similar) partitions |
| plasma {m} | :: plasma (all senses) |
| plasmateur {m} | :: a creator, fashioner |
| plasmatique {adj} | :: plasma (attributive), plasmatic |
| plasmide {m} | :: plasmid (circle of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes) |
| plasmidique {adj} [biology] | :: plasmidic |
| plasmique {adj} | :: plasmic |
| plasmode {m} | :: plasmodium |
| plasmodesme {m} | :: plasmodesma |
| plasmogamie {f} [biology] | :: plasmogamy |
| plasmogamique {adj} [biology] | :: plasmogamic |
| plasmonique {adj} | :: plasmonic |
| plaste {m} | :: plastid; leucoplast |
| plastic {m} | :: plastic explosive |
| plasticage {m} | :: Action of blowing up something (using plastic explosive) |
| plasticien {m} | :: plastician (an artist involved with plastic arts) |
| plasticienne {f} | :: feminine noun of plasticien |
| plasticité {f} | :: plasticity |
| plastide {m} | :: plastid |
| -plastie {suffix} | :: -plasty |
| plastifiant {m} | :: plasticizer |
| plastifier {v} | :: to laminate |
| plastiquage {m} | :: bomb attack |
| plastique {adj} | :: plastic |
| plastique {m} | :: plastic |
| plastiquement {adv} | :: plastically |
| plastiquer {v} | :: to blow up (using plastic explosive) |
| plastiqueur {m} | :: terrorist (bomber who uses plastic explosive) |
| plastiqueuse {f} | :: feminine noun of plastiqueur |
| plastocyanine {f} [protein] | :: plastocyanin |
| plastron {m} | :: breastplate (piece of armour) |
| plastron {m} [fencing] | :: plastron |
| plastron {m} | :: chest pad; chest protection; chestguard |
| plastron {m} [zoology] | :: plastron (part of a turtle's shell) |
| plastron {m} | :: shirt front; the front of a shirt |
| plastron {m} | :: plastron (ornamental front part of a bodice) |
| plastron {m} [zoology] | :: breast (front part of certain birds) |
| plastronique {adj} | :: plastronic |
| plastronique {f} [physics] | :: plastronics |
| plastronner {v} | :: to swagger |
| plasturgie {f} | :: plastics engineering |
| plat {adj} | :: flat |
| plat {m} | :: a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle |
| plat {m} | :: dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant) |
| platane {m} | :: a sycamore or planetree (genus Platanus) |
| plat du jour {m} | :: plat du jour, daily special |
| plate {f} | :: Very small flat boat |
| plate {adj} [Canada, colloquial] | :: Annoyingly boring |
| plate {adj} [Canada, colloquial] | :: Troublesome |
| plateau {m} | :: flat area |
| plateau {m} | :: tray |
| plateau {m} [geography] | :: plateau |
| plateau {m} | :: stage (in theatre); set (of television broadcast) |
| plate-bande {f} | :: flower bed |
| plate-bande {f} [architecture] | :: platband |
| platée {f} | :: plateful |
| plate-forme {f} | :: platform |
| plateforme {f} | :: alternative form of plate-forme |
| plateforme de forage {f} | :: drilling rig, drilling platform (for oil) |
| plate-forme pétrolière {f} | :: oil rig |
| platelage {m} | :: decking, deck (horizontal surface) |
| platement {adv} | :: flatly |
| platinage {m} | :: platinization |
| platine {m} | :: platinum (metal) |
| platine {f} | :: platter |
| platine {f} | :: turntable |
| platine {f} | :: connector board |
| platine {f} [clockmaking, locksmithing] | :: plate |
| platine {f} [printing] | :: platen (printing plate) |
| platine {f} | :: stage (of a microscope) |
| platinectomie {f} [surgery] | :: platinectomy, platinotomy |
| platiner {v} | :: to platinize |
| platineux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: platinous |
| platinique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: platinic |
| platinoïde {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: platinoid |
| platinotypie {f} | :: platinotype |
| Platon {prop} {m} | :: Plato (Greek philosopher) |
| platonicien {adj} [philosophy, mathematics] | :: Platonic |
| platonique {adj} | :: Platonic |
| platonique {adj} | :: platonic |
| platoniquement {adv} | :: platonically |
| platoniser {v} | :: platonize |
| platonisme {m} | :: Platonism |
| plat principal {m} | :: main course |
| plâtrage {m} | :: plastering, pargeting |
| plâtras {m} | :: rubble |
| plâtre {m} | :: plaster, plaster of Paris (the building material) |
| plâtre {m} | :: plaster, cast (supportive and immobilising device) |
| plâtrer {vt} | :: to plaster |
| plâtrer {vt} | :: to render |
| plâtrier {m} | :: plasterer |
| plâtrière {f} | :: gypsum quarry (for the manufacture of plaster) |
| plâtrière {f} | :: feminine noun of plâtrier |
| platycnémie {f} [anatomy] | :: platycnemism |
| platycnémien {adj} [anatomy] | :: platycnemic |
| platycnémique {adj} [anatomy] | :: platycnemic |
| platykurticité {f} [maths] | :: platykurtosis, platykurticity |
| platykurtique {adj} [maths] | :: platykurtic |
| platyphylle {adj} | :: broadleaf |
| plausibilité {f} | :: plausibility |
| plausible {adj} | :: plausible |
| Plaute {prop} {m} | :: Plautus |
| playback {m} [music, singing] | :: lip-syncing |
| play-boy {m} | :: playboy (person) |
| playboy {m} | :: alternative spelling of play-boy |
| playlist {f} | :: playlist |
| PLC {initialism} [initialism] | :: [Canada, politics] Parti libéral du Canada - Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) |
| plèbe {f} | :: pleb |
| plèbe {f} | :: (in plural) people, mob |
| plébéien {adj} | :: plebeian |
| plébéien {m} [historical] | :: plebeian, commoner |
| plébéiennement {adv} | :: In a plebeian manner |
| plébiscitaire {adj} | :: plebiscitary |
| plébiscite {m} | :: plebiscite |
| plébisciter {vt} | :: to vote by plebiscite |
| plectre {m} | :: plectrum, pick (for strumming string instruments) |
| pléiade {f} | :: host (large group) |
| plein {adj} | :: full, full up |
| plein {adj} | :: plenty |
| plein {adj} | :: solid |
| plein {adj} | :: [of a moon] full |
| plein {adj} | :: [preceded by en] mid-; middle |
| plein {adj} | :: [of an animal] pregnant |
| plein {prep} [somewhat colloquial] | :: in; all over |
| plein à craquer {adj} [colloquial] | :: jam-packed, chock full, bursting at the seams |
| plein comme une huître {adj} [Europe, simile] | :: drunk as a skunk |
| plein comme un œuf {adj} [simile, colloquial] | :: Very drunk; pissed as a newt; drunk as a skunk |
| plein de soupe {m} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, St.Martin Parish] | :: a greedy man |
| pleine lune {f} | :: full moon |
| pleinement {adv} | :: completely, all over |
| plein-emploi {m} | :: full employment |
| pléiotrope {adj} [biology] | :: pleiotropic |
| pléiotropie {f} [biology] | :: pleiotropy |
| pléiotropique {adj} | :: pleiotropic |
| pléistocène {adj} | :: Pleistocene |
| Pléistocène {prop} {m} | :: Pleistocene period |
| plénier {adj} | :: complete, entire |
| plénier {adj} | :: plenary |
| plénièrement {adv} | :: completely, entirely |
| plénipotentiaire {adj} | :: plenipotentiary |
| plénipotentiaire {mf} | :: plenipotentiary (a person invested with supreme authority) |
| plénitude {f} | :: fullness, plenitude |
| pléomorphe {adj} [biology] | :: pleomorphic |
| pléonasme {m} [linguistics] | :: pleonasm, redundancy |
| pléonaste {m} [mineralogy] | :: pleonaste |
| pléonastique {adj} | :: pleonastic |
| plérôme {m} [gnosticism] | :: pleroma |
| plésiomorphie {f} [genetics] | :: plesiomorphy |
| plésiomorphique {adj} [biology] | :: plesiomorphic |
| plésiomorphisme {m} [biology] | :: plesiomorphism, plesiomorphy |
| plessimétrique {adj} | :: pleximetric |
| plessimétriquement {adv} | :: pleximetrically |
| pléthore {f} | :: plethora |
| pléthorique {adj} [medical] | :: plethoric |
| pléthorique {adj} | :: overloaded, overabundant |
| pléthoriquement {adv} | :: plethorically |
| pléthoriquement {adv} | :: overabundantly |
| pleur {m} | :: Cry (action of producing tears) |
| pleurard {m} | :: crybaby |
| pleurard {adj} | :: crying |
| pleurer {vi} | :: to cry, to weep |
| pleurer {vt} | :: to mourn |
| pleurer à chaudes larmes {v} | :: to cry one's eyes out, to weep buckets |
| pleurer comme une madeleine {v} [simile] | :: To bawl, especially exaggeratedly; to cry one's eyes out; to cry like a baby |
| pleurésie {f} [pathology] | :: pleurisy |
| pleurétique {adj} | :: pleuritic |
| pleureur {m} | :: crier; weeper one who cries or weeps |
| pleureur {m} | :: crybaby |
| pleureur {adj} | :: weeping |
| pleureuse {f} | :: professional mourner |
| pleurnichard {m} | :: crybaby |
| pleurnichard {m} | :: sniveller |
| pleurnichard {adj} | :: whingeing |
| pleurnicher {v} | :: to whine (to complain or protest in a childish manner or about trivial things) |
| pleurnicherie {f} | :: whine |
| pleurnicheur {m} [colloquial] | :: sniveller |
| pleurnicheuse {f} | :: feminine noun of pleurnicheur |
| pleurote {m} | :: oyster mushroom |
| pleutre {m} | :: coward |
| pleutre {adj} | :: cowardly |
| pleutre {v} | :: to be cowardly |
| pleutrement {adv} | :: cowardly |
| pleuviner {v} | :: to drizzle |
| pleuvioter {v} | :: to drizzle |
| pleuvoir {v} | :: to rain |
| pleuvoir à boire debout {v} | :: rain cats and dogs (to rain very heavily) |
| pleuvoir à verse {v} [idiomatic] | :: to rain heavily |
| pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse {v} [simile, vulgar] | :: to piss it down (to rain cats and dogs) |
| pleuvoir des cordes {v} [idiomatic] | :: to rain heavily; to rain cats and dogs |
| pleuvoir des hallebardes {v} | :: to rain heavily; to rain cats and dogs |
| plèvre {f} [anatomy] | :: pleura |
| plexiglas {m} | :: Plexiglas |
| plexus {m} | :: plexus |
| pli {m} | :: fold |
| pli {m} | :: pleat |
| pli {m} | :: letter |
| pli {m} [card games] | :: trick |
| pliable {adj} | :: pliable |
| pliage {m} | :: folding (the act of folding something) |
| pliant {adj} | :: pliant |
| plié {adj} | :: in stitches |
| plier {vt} | :: to fold (bend (something) over; arrange by folding) |
| plier {v} | :: to fold up |
| plier {v} | :: to bend |
| plier {v} | :: to mess up; to do in; to damage |
| plier {v} [figuratively] | :: to kill, kill off (a game) |
| plier bagage {v} | :: to leave, to move, go away |
| Pline {prop} {m} | :: Pliny |
| plinien {adj} | :: Plinian |
| plinthe {f} | :: plinth |
| plinthe {f} | :: skirting board; baseboard (panel between floor and interior wall) |
| pliocène {adj} | :: Pliocene |
| Pliocène {prop} {m} | :: Pliocene period |
| plissé {adj} | :: pleated |
| plissement {m} | :: folding |
| plissement {m} [geology] | :: fold |
| plisser {vt} | :: to fold over, pleat |
| plisser {vt} | :: to wrinkle, crease, pucker, screw up |
| plisser {vi} | :: to be creased (of clothes etc.), wrinkled (stockings etc.) |
| plisser {vr} | :: to crease, wrinkle |
| pliure {f} | :: a folding |
| plomb {m} | :: lead (metal) |
| plomb {m} | :: fuse |
| plomb {m} | :: sinker (fishing weight) |
| plombage {m} | :: weighting (with lead); filling, stopping |
| plombage {m} [dentistry] | :: filling |
| plombagine {m} [mineralogy] | :: graphite |
| plombate {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: plumbate |
| plombe {f} [slang] | :: ages, a long time |
| plombémie {f} [pathology] | :: The presence of lead in the blood |
| plomber {v} | :: to fill with lead, to weigh down with lead |
| plomber {v} [figuratively] | :: to become a burden, to weigh down |
| plomberie {f} | :: plumbing; plumbery |
| plombeux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: plumbous |
| plombier {m} | :: plumber (profession) |
| plombière {f} | :: feminine singular of plombier |
| plombique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: plumbic |
| plombite {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: plumbite |
| plomburie {f} | :: lead poisoning |
| plonge {f} [France, colloquial] | :: the work of washing dishes |
| plongeant {adj} | :: plunging (neckline etc) |
| plongée {f} | :: dive |
| plongée {f} | :: The forward tilt of an automobile when braking |
| plongeoir {m} | :: diving board |
| plongeon {m} | :: dive (act of diving into water) |
| plongeon {m} [sports] | :: diving |
| plongeon {m} | :: loon (the bird) |
| plongeon synchronisé {m} | :: synchronized diving |
| plonger {v} | :: to dive |
| plonger {v} | :: to plunge |
| plongeur {adj} [chiefly of an animal] | :: diving (that or who dives) |
| plongeur {m} | :: diver (one who dives for pearls, coral, sponges, sunken items, and so on) |
| plongeur {m} | :: diver (one who practices the sport of diving) |
| plongeur {m} | :: dishwasher (a person who washes dishes in a restaurant or similar establishment) |
| plongeuse {f} | :: feminine noun of plongeur |
| plosif {adj} | :: plosive |
| plosion {f} [phonetics] | :: plosion |
| plosive {f} | :: plosive |
| ploter {v} [maths] | :: To plot or trace (a curve) |
| ploter {v} | :: alternative form of peloter |
| plotte {f} [Quebec, vulgar, slang] | :: a vulva, a vagina |
| plotte {f} [Louisiana French, Cajun French, ] | :: a ball; a football |
| plotter {v} [obsolete] | :: alternative form of peloter |
| plouc {m} | :: hick, country bumpkin, yokel |
| plouf {m} | :: splash |
| ploussard {m} | :: A black grape variety form Jura |
| ploutocrate {mf} | :: plutocrat |
| ploutocratie {f} | :: plutocracy |
| ploutocratique {adj} | :: plutocratic |
| ployer {vi} [literary] | :: to bend, fold |
| P. L. Q. {abbr} | :: alternative form of PLQ |
| P.L.Q. {abbr} | :: alternative form of PLQ |
| PLQ {initialism} [Canada, politics] | :: initialism of Parti libéral du Québec - Liberal Party of Quebec (LPQ) |
| PLS {f} | :: initialism of position latérale de sécurité: recovery position |
| plucher {v} | :: to fluff up, to become fluffy |
| plug {m} | :: butt-plug |
| plugiciel {m} | :: plug-in (computer program addon) |
| plugiciel {adj} | :: plug-in |
| pluie {f} | :: rain |
| pluie verglaçante {f} [meteorology] | :: freezing rain |
| plumage {m} [ornithologie, nom collectif] | :: plumage (a bird's feathers, collectively speaking) |
| plumbago {m} [botany] | :: plumbago |
| plume {f} | :: feather |
| plume {f} | :: quill |
| plume {f} | :: nib, the writing end of a fountain pen or a dip pen |
| plumeau {m} | :: feather duster |
| plumer {v} | :: to pluck the feathers off |
| plumer {v} [colloquial] | :: To swindle or cheat out of |
| plumer {v} [colloquial] | :: To desquamate; to have the skin peel off |
| plumet {m} | :: An ostrich feather placed in a hat |
| plumet {m} | :: A bouquet of feathers used to decorate military headgear |
| plumet {m} | :: A bouquet of feathers used to decorate a dais, a bed, or a hearse |
| plumet {m} | :: Feather grass (Stipa pennata) |
| plumet {m} | :: A bundle of feathers attached to a piece of cork which is allowed to float in order to determine the direction of the wind |
| plumetis {m} | :: satin stitch |
| plumets {mp} | :: Plural of plumet |
| plumeux {adj} | :: feathery |
| plumier {m} | :: pencil box |
| plumitif {m} | :: penpusher |
| plupart {f} | :: main part, majority |
| plupart {f} | :: most of |
| plural {adj} | :: plural, large |
| pluralisme {m} | :: pluralism |
| pluraliste {mf} | :: pluralist |
| pluralité {f} | :: plurality |
| pluri- {prefix} | :: pluri- |
| pluriannuel {adj} | :: long-term |
| pluriannuel {adj} | :: pluriennial |
| pluricellulaire {adj} | :: multicellular, pluricellular |
| pluridimensionnel {adj} | :: pluridimensional, multidimensional |
| pluridirectionnel {adj} | :: pluridirectional |
| pluridisciplinaire {adj} | :: multidisciplinary |
| pluridisciplinairement {adv} | :: multidisciplinarily; in a multidisciplinary way |
| pluridisciplinarité {f} | :: multidisciplinarity |
| pluriel {m} | :: plural |
| pluriel {adj} | :: plural |
| pluriel brisé {m} [grammar, linguistics] | :: broken plural |
| pluriellement {adv} | :: plurally; in the plural |
| pluriethnique {adj} | :: multiethnic |
| plurilingue {adj} | :: multilingual, plurilingual |
| plurilinguisme {m} | :: multilingualism |
| pluriloculaire {adj} [biology] | :: plurilocular |
| pluripartisme {m} | :: multipartyism |
| pluripartiste {adj} | :: multiparty |
| pluripotence {f} [biology] | :: pluripotency |
| pluripotent {adj} [biology] | :: pluripotent |
| pluriquotidien {adj} | :: several times each day |
| pluriquotidiennement {adv} | :: several times each day |
| pluriséculaire {adj} | :: Over several centuries |
| pluriséculaire {adj} | :: Centuries-old |
| plus {adv} | :: more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives) |
| plus {adv} | :: more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs) |
| plus {adv} [after a verb] | :: more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity) |
| plus {adv} [before a noun] | :: more (indicating a greater quantity; followed by de) |
| plus {adv} | :: more (supplementary, preceded by de) |
| plus {adv} [preceded by a definite article] | :: the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs) |
| plus {adv} [usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below] | :: no longer, not ... any more |
| plus {m} | :: plus, the symbol + |
| plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose {proverb} | :: the more things change, the more they stay the same |
| plus facile à dire qu'à faire {adj} | :: easier said than done (easy to propose, but difficult to accomplish) |
| plus grand commun dénominateur {m} [mathematics] | :: synonym of plus grand commun diviseur |
| plus grand commun diviseur {m} [mathematics] | :: greatest common divisor |
| plusieurs {adj} | :: several, many, a lot |
| plus on est de fous, plus on rit {proverb} | :: the more the merrier |
| plus ou moins {adv} | :: more or less (approximately) |
| plus petit commun multiple {m} [mathematics] | :: least common multiple |
| plus que jamais {adv} | :: more than ever |
| plus-que-parfait {m} | :: pluperfect tense |
| plus-value {f} | :: capital gain |
| plus vieux métier du monde {m} [euphemistic] | :: the world's oldest profession |
| Plutarque {prop} {m} | :: Plutarch (Greek historian) |
| Pluton {prop} {m} | :: Pluto (dwarf planet) |
| Pluton {prop} {m} | :: Pluto (god) |
| plutoneux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] | :: plutonous |
| plutonien {adj} | :: Plutonian |
| plutonique {adj} [geology, inorganic chemistry] | :: plutonic |
| plutonium {m} | :: plutonium |
| plutôt {adv} [obsolete] | :: earlier, sooner |
| plutôt {adv} | :: rather, instead |
| plutôt {adv} | :: rather, pretty, kind of |
| pluvier {m} | :: plover |
| pluvieux {adj} | :: rainy |
| pluviomètre {m} | :: pluviometer |
| pluviométrie {f} | :: pluviometry |
| pluviométrique {adj} | :: pluviometric |
| pluviôse {m} [historical] | :: Pluviôse (the fifth month of the French Republican Calendar) |
| pluviosité {f} | :: (amount of) rainfall |
| P.M. {abbr} | :: post meridiem |
| PM {abbr} | :: post meridiem |
| PMA {m} | :: abbreviation of pays les moins avancés; LDC (least developed countries) |
| PME {f} | :: abbreviation of Petites et Moyennes Entreprises; SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) |
| PMU {m} | :: abbreviation of Pari mutuel urbain |
| PMU {m} [by extension, France] | :: a place where one can bet on horse races, usually a café or tabac |
| PNC {mf} | :: Flight attendant, cabin crew |
| pneu {m} | :: tyre, tire |
| pneu de secours {m} | :: spare tyre |
| pneumatique {adj} | :: pneumatic |
| pneumatique {m} [rare] | :: tyre (wheel covering) |
| pneumique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: pneumic |
| pneumocoque {m} | :: pneumococcus |
| pneumogastrique {adj} [anatomy] | :: pneumogastric |
| pneumogastrique {m} [anatomy] | :: pneumogastric |
| pneumographie {f} | :: pneumography |
| pneumologie {f} | :: pulmonology |
| pneumologue {mf} | :: pneumologist |
| pneumonie {f} [pathology] | :: pneumonia |
| pneumonique {adj} | :: pneumonic |
| pneumopathie {f} | :: pneumonia |
| pnictogène {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pnictogen |
| pnicture {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: pnictide |
| Pô {prop} {m} | :: Po (Italian river) |
| poa {m} | :: poa, grass |
| pochade {f} | :: pochade |
| pochard {m} [colloquial] | :: drunk, drunkard |
| pocharde {f} | :: feminine noun of pochard |
| poche {f} | :: pocket (part of the clothing) |
| poche {f} | :: pouch (small bag, or part of small bag) |
| poche {f} | :: pouch (of a marsupial) |
| poche {f} | :: pocket (cavity) |
| poche {f} | :: poach (act of cooking by poaching) |
| poche {f} | :: the rendering or the act of rendering the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black |
| poche {f} | :: ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal) |
| poche {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: lame, boring, dull |
| poche {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: bad, untalented, sucky |
| poche des eaux {f} | :: amniotic sac |
| pocher {v} | :: to poach; to cook by poaching |
| pocher {v} | :: to sketch; to make a sketch of |
| pochetron {m} [slang, pejorative] | :: someone who drinks copiously, a drunkard |
| pochetronne {f} | :: feminine noun of pochetron |
| pochette {f} | :: (small) pocket |
| pochette {f} | :: sleeve (of e.g. a CD) |
| pochette {f} | :: clutch bag |
| pochoir {m} | :: stencil (utensil consisting of a perforated sheet) |
| pôchouse {f} | :: alternative form of pauchouse |
| pochtron {m} [slang, pejorative] | :: alternative form of pochetron |
| pochtronne {f} | :: feminine noun of pochtron |
| pococurante {mf} | :: one who is apathetic |
| podaire {f} [geometry] | :: pedal curve |
| podcast {m} [Internet, neologism] | :: podcast |
| podcaster {v} | :: to podcast |
| podcasting {m} | :: podcasting |
| podium {m} | :: podium |
| Podolie {prop} {f} | :: Podolia |
| podologue {m} | :: chiropodist, podiatrist |
| podomètre {m} | :: pedometer |
| podophylle {m} [botany] | :: podophyllum |
| podophylleux {adj} [biology] | :: podophyllous |
| podorythmie {f} [Canada] | :: The tapping of one's feet in time to music |
| podotactile {adj} | :: pedotactile |
| poecilitique {adj} [geology] | :: poikilitic |
| poêle {m} | :: stove |
| poêle {f} | :: frying pan, pan |
| poêle {f} [colloquial] | :: metal detector |
| poêle {m} [religion] | :: pall |
| poêlé {adj} | :: pan-fried |
| poêle à frire {f} | :: frying pan |
| poêlée {f} | :: pan fry |
| poêler {v} [cooking] | :: to fry in a frying pan |
| poêlon {m} | :: Type of casserole (cooking pot) |
| poème {m} | :: poem (literary piece written in verse) |
| poëme {m} [archaic] | :: alternative spelling of poème |
| pœnal {adj} | :: obsolete form of pénal |
| poésie {f} | :: poetry |
| poète {m} | :: poet |
| poétereau {m} | :: mediocre poet |
| poétesse {f} | :: poetess (female poet) |
| poétique {adj} | :: poetic, poetical |
| poétiquement {adv} | :: poetically (in a poetic way) |
| poétiser {vi} | :: To versify |
| poétiser {vt} | :: To poetize or poeticize |
| Pœuilly {prop} | :: Pœuilly |
| Pogba {prop} | :: surname |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec, Louisiana French] | :: to catch |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec, Louisiana French] | :: to grab, to grasp |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, Louisiana French, slang, figuratively] | :: to seize |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, figuratively, impersonal verb] | :: to be arrested or frozen (by a notion or emotion) |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec, slang] | :: to surprise, to run into, to find out (someone in the act of wrongdoing, someone in hiding) |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec] | :: to collide, to hit |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec, slang] | :: to receive |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec, slang] | :: to understand, [figuratively] to get (a joke) |
| pogner {vi} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to catch on or become popular, to succeed |
| pogner {vi} [Quebec, slang, idiomatic] | :: to seduce, to have success in interpersonal relationships |
| pogner {vr} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to take or acquire something (for oneself) |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, colloquial] | :: to become stuck or jammed (of one object in another, used reflexively) |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, slang] | :: to argue, to quarrel (with someone), to butt heads (used either reflexively or with subject) |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, slang] | :: to make out, or to make love or have sex (used reflexively) |
| pogner {vt} [Louisiana French, slang] | :: to fool |
| pognon {m} [colloquial] | :: dough, dosh, bread (money) |
| pogo {m} [Canada, food, colloquial] | :: pogo (corndog on a stick) |
| pogoter {v} | :: To dance the pogo |
| pogrom {m} | :: pogrom |
| poichichade {f} | :: A traditional Provençal spreadable dish consisting of chickpeas, garlic and olive oil |
| poids {m} | :: weight |
| poids léger {m} | :: lightweight (sports category) |
| poids lourd {m} | :: HGV; heavy goods vehicle |
| poids lourd {m} | :: heavyweight (sports category) |
| poids moyen {m} | :: middleweight (sports category) |
| poignamment {adv} | :: poignantly |
| poignant {adj} | :: poignant |
| poignard {m} | :: dagger |
| poignardage {m} [rare] | :: stabbing |
| poignarder {v} | :: to stab; to knife |
| poigne {f} | :: grip |
| poignée {f} | :: handful (amount held in hand) |
| poignée {f} | :: handful (a small number) |
| poignée {f} | :: (also poignée de main) handshake |
| poignée {f} | :: grip (part of an object someone grips) |
| poignée {f} | :: handle |
| poignée de main {f} | :: handshake |
| poignet {m} | :: wrist |
| poignet {m} | :: carpus |
| poil {m} | :: hair (on the body) |
| poil {m} | :: bristle (on a brush) |
| poil à gratter {m} [practical joke] | :: itching powder |
| poiler {vp} [colloquial] | :: to laugh hard |
| poilu {adj} [colloquial] | :: hairy |
| poilu {adj} [dated, figurative] | :: brave, courageous; energetic |
| poilu {m} [historical] | :: poilu (French soldier during World War I) |
| poincarisme {m} | :: The politics of Raymond Poincaré |
| poincariste {mf} | :: An adherent of poincarisme |
| poinçon {m} | :: stamp (device) |
| poinçon {m} | :: a pointed tool, such as a punch, chisel, bodkin or awl |
| poinçon {m} | :: hallmark (an official marking) |
| poinçonner {vt} | :: to stamp, punch |
| poinçonner {vt} | :: to hallmark |
| poinçonneuse {f} | :: punch (machine) |
| poindre {vt} [obsolete] | :: to prick, sting |
| poindre {vt} [literary] | :: to sting, afflict (of pain, love etc.) |
| poindre {vi} | :: to come up (of a plant), peep through |
| poindre {vi} [literary] | :: to break, dawn (of day); to break (of dawn) |
| poindre {vi} [figurative] | :: to appear, spring up |
| poing {m} | :: fist |
| poing américain {m} | :: brass knuckles |
| poing-à-poing {m} | :: fist bump |
| point {m} | :: point (small mark) |
| point {m} [sports, games] | :: point |
| point {m} | :: full stop, period (punctuation mark) |
| point {adv} [literary, dialectal, usually with "ne"] | :: not |
| pointage {m} | :: ticking off |
| pointage {m} | :: checking in |
| pointage {m} | :: scrutiny |
| point aveugle {m} | :: blind spot (place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina) |
| point barre {interj} | :: period; full stop |
| point cardinal {m} | :: cardinal point |
| point chaud {m} [geology] | :: hot spot |
| point commun {m} | :: common feature, shared trait, thing in common, similarity |
| point d'Angleterre {m} | :: Brussels lace |
| point de côté {m} | :: stitch (pain in one's side) |
| point de non-retour {m} [aviation] | :: point of no return |
| point de non-retour {m} [figuratively] | :: point of no return (moment when a process becomes irreversible) |
| point de non-retour {m} [figuratively] | :: orgasm, climax |
| point d'entrée {m} | :: entry point |
| point de repère {m} | :: point of reference, landmark |
| point de suture {m} | :: stitch (of surgical suture) |
| point de vue {m} | :: point of view |
| point d'exclamation {m} | :: exclamation mark, exclamation point |
| point d'expérience {m} [RPG] | :: experience point |
| point d'inflexion {m} | :: point of inflection (a change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave) |
| point d'interrogation {m} | :: question mark (punctuation) |
| point diplomatique {m} | :: the punctuation ⟨ [[./.]] ⟩, a full stop followed by a slash followed by another full stop, used in French-language diplomatic texts to indicate the end of a message |
| point diplomatique {m} | :: See: point diplomatique |
| point d'orgue {m} [music] | :: pause, fermata |
| point d'orgue {m} [figuratively] | :: climax, culmination, capstone |
| pointe {f} | :: point |
| pointeau {m} | :: punch, centrepunch |
| pointe aux âmes {f} [musical instruments, lutherie] | :: soundpost setter, soundpost setting tool |
| pointe de vin {f} | :: merriment caused by mild intoxication |
| pointer {v} | :: to point to/at |
| pointer {v} [by extension] | :: to indicate, to show, to point out |
| pointer {v} | :: to punch in, to clock in |
| pointer {vp} [colloquial] | :: to show up, turn up |
| pointer {m} | :: pointer (dog) |
| pointeur {m} [military] | :: One who points a cannon at its target |
| pointeur {m} | :: One who maintains a register of people present and absent |
| pointeur {m} [computing, programming] | :: A pointer |
| point faible {m} | :: weakness, weak spot |
| point final {m} | :: period [US usage]; full stop [UK usage] |
| point final {interj} | :: period, full stop |
| point fort {m} | :: strength, strong suit |
| point G {m} | :: G-spot |
| pointillé {m} | :: dotted line |
| pointillé {m} | :: perforation |
| pointillé {m} [art] | :: stippling |
| pointilleusement {adv} | :: punctiliously |
| pointilleux {adj} | :: punctilious, finicky, pernickety |
| point mort {m} [physics] | :: dead centre |
| point mort {m} [in vehicles] | :: neutral (the position of a set of gears) |
| point mort {m} [figuratively] | :: standstill, deadlock |
| points de suspension {mp} | :: ellipsis (mark used in printing to indicate an omission) |
| pointu {adj} | :: sharp |
| pointu {adj} [figuratively] | :: specialised, technical, pointed |
| pointure {f} | :: shoe size |
| pointure {f} [colloquial] | :: a master, a person very skilled at doing something; a big name |
| point virgule {m} | :: semicolon |
| point-virgule {m} | :: semicolon (punctuation mark) |
| poire {f} | :: pear |
| poire {f} [colloquial] | :: mug, sucker, soft touch |
| poire {f} [colloquial] | :: mush, face |
| poire {f} | :: A bulb, usually pear-shaped, used to collect gases or liquids, such as that of a dropper |
| poire {f} | :: pear brandy |
| poire {f} | :: A pear-shaped switch |
| poire {f} [butchery] | :: A beef cut |
| poiré {m} | :: perry (pear cider) |
| poire à lavement {f} | :: bulb syringe, enema syringe, douche |
| poire-alligator {f} | :: alligator pear (avocado fruit) |
| poireau {m} | :: leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum) |
| poireau {m} [slang] | :: cock, dick |
| poireauter {v} [colloquial] | :: to hang around, to hang |
| poire belle Hélène {f} | :: A dessert made from pears poached in sugar syrup and served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and crystallized violets (or, in simpler variations, sliced almonds) |
| poire d'avocat {f} | :: avocado pear (avocado fruit) |
| poiré de glace {m} | :: ice perry |
| poiré mousseux {m} | :: sparkling perry (pear champagne) |
| poirer {v} [slang] | :: to nab, take by surprise |
| poirier {m} | :: pear tree |
| poirier {m} | :: headstand |
| Poirier {prop} | :: surname |
| pois {m} | :: pea |
| pois chiche {m} | :: chick pea |
| pois de senteur {m} | :: sweet pea |
| poison {m} | :: poison |
| poissard {adj} | :: (of language) coarse, common, vulgar |
| poissard {adj} | :: unlucky |
| poisse {f} | :: chronic bad luck |
| poisser {vt} | :: to make sticky |
| poisser {vt} | :: to nab (apprehend) |
| poisseux {adj} | :: sticky |
| poisson {m} | :: fish (marine animal) |
| Poisson {prop} | :: surname |
| poisson-chat {m} | :: catfish |
| poisson-chien {m} [Africa] | :: The tigerfish, in the genus Hydrocynus |
| poisson-chien {m} [rare] | :: The European mudminnow, Umbra krameri |
| poisson-chirurgien {m} | :: surgeonfish |
| poisson d'avril {m} | :: April fool (an April Fool's Day joke) |
| poisson-football {m} | :: footballfish |
| poissonier {m} | :: fish cook |
| poissonière {f} | :: feminine noun of poissonier |
| poisson-lait {m} | :: milkfish |
| poissonnerie {f} | :: fishmonger's (shop which sells fish) |
| poissonneux {adj} | :: Full of fish; abundant in fish |
| poissonnier {m} | :: fishmonger (someone who sells fish) |
| poissonnière {f} | :: feminine noun of poissonnier |
| poisson plat {m} | :: flatfish |
| poisson rouge {m} | :: goldfish |
| Poissons {prop} {mp} [astronomy] | :: The constellation Pisces 'the Fishes' |
| Poissons {prop} {mp} [astrology] | :: The zodiac sign Pisces, after the above |
| Poissons {prop} {mp} [geography] | :: A municipality in the northern French Champage region |
| Poissons {prop} {mp} [geography] | :: A canton in the Haute-Marne département, named after the above town, its capital |
| poisson-tigre {m} | :: The tigerfish, in the genus Hydrocynus. |
| poisson-vipère {m} | :: viperfish |
| poisson volant {m} | :: flying fish (a tropical marine fish) |
| poitevin {adj} | :: Poitevin |
| Poitiers {prop} | :: Poitiers |
| Poitou-Charentes {prop} | :: Poitou-Charentes, former region of France |
| poitrail {m} | :: chest (of horse); breast (of bird etc.) |
| poitrail {m} [jocular] | :: chest (of human) |
| poitrail de puzzle {m} [medicine, putative] | :: jigsaw breast/chest |
| poitrinaire {adj} [archaic] | :: consumptive, tubercular, phthistic |
| poitrine {f} | :: chest (of body) |
| poitrine {f} | :: breast (of body) |
| poitrine {f} | :: breast (of poultry, as meat) |
| poivrade {f} | :: poivrade |
| poivre {m} | :: pepper (spice) |
| poivre blanc {m} | :: white pepper (spice) |
| poivre du moulin {m} | :: freshly ground pepper |
| poivre et sel {adj} | :: salt-and-pepper |
| poivre noir {m} | :: black pepper (spice) |
| poivrer {v} | :: to pepper (to season with pepper) |
| poivrier {m} | :: pepper (plant) |
| poivrière {f} | :: pepper pot |
| poivron {m} | :: bell pepper (Capsicum annuum) |
| poivronnade {f} | :: A traditional French dish consisting of peppers (the vegetable) and various herbs and spices, or other vegetables |
| poivrot {m} | :: drunkard |
| poivrote {f} | :: drunkard (female) |
| poix {f} | :: pitch |
| poker {m} [card games] | :: poker |
| polaire {adj} | :: polar |
| Polandball {m} | :: Polandball |
| polar {m} [colloquial] | :: detective novel |
| polarimètre {m} | :: polarimeter |
| polarimétrie {f} | :: polarimetry |
| polarisabilité {f} | :: polarizability |
| polarisation {f} | :: polarization |
| polarisé {adj} | :: polarized |
| polariser {v} | :: to polarize |
| polariseur {m} | :: polarizer |
| polarité {f} | :: polarity |
| polarographie {f} [chemistry, physics] | :: polarography |
| polaroïd {m} | :: Polaroid picture |
| polder {m} [geography] | :: polder |
| -pole {suffix} | :: -polis |
| -pole {suffix} | :: -poly, related to market or economy |
| pôle {m} [geography, astronomy, science] | :: pole |
| pôle {m} [figuratively] | :: centre, hub |
| polémarque {m} [historical, Ancient Greece] | :: polemarch |
| polémique {f} | :: polemic, controversy |
| polémique {adj} | :: polemic |
| polémiquer {vi} | :: to be involved in a controversy |
| polémiste {mf} | :: polemicist |
| polémochorie {f} [biology] | :: polemochory |
| pôle nord {m} | :: north pole (of a magnet) |
| pôle Nord {m} | :: north pole (northernmost point on celestial bodies) |
| pôle Nord {m} | :: North Pole (of Earth) |
| polenta {f} | :: polenta |
| pôle sud {m} | :: south pole (of a magnet) |
| pôle Sud {m} | :: south pole (the southernmost point on a celestial body) |
| polhodie {f} | :: polhode |
| poli {adj} | :: polite |
| poli {adj} | :: polished |
| poli {m} | :: lustre, polish |
| police {f} | :: police |
| police {f} [typography] | :: fount, font |
| police {f} [Quebec] | :: cop (police officer) |
| police de l'air et des frontières {f} | :: border police |
| police judiciaire {f} | :: The detective / investigation division of the French police |
| policeman {m} | :: policeman (in Anglophone countries) |
| policer {v} | :: to police |
| polichinelle {m} | :: Punchinello doll |
| polichinelle {m} | :: buffoon |
| Polichinelle {prop} | :: Punchinello |
| policier {adj} | :: police (attributive) |
| policier {m} | :: policeman, police officer |
| policier {m} | :: police movie |
| policière {f} | :: policewoman, female police officer |
| policlinique {f} | :: polyclinic |
| policlinique {f} | :: outpatients (department of hospital) |
| poliment {adv} | :: politely |
| poliomyélite {f} [pathology] | :: poliomyelitis |
| poliomyélitique {adj} | :: polio (attributive) |
| poliorcétique {adj} | :: relative to siegecraft |
| poliorcétique {f} | :: the science of laying siege, siegecraft |
| polir {v} | :: to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding (often polish up) |
| polir {v} | :: to refine; remove imperfections |
| polissage {m} | :: polishing |
| polissage {m} | :: refining |
| polisseur {m} | :: polisher (person) (machine, masculine only) |
| polisseuse {f} | :: feminine noun of polisseur |
| polissoir {m} | :: a polissoir |
| polisson {m} | :: naughty child, scamp |
| polisson {adj} | :: mischievous |
| polisson {adj} | :: licentious, shameless |
| polissonner {v} [archaic] | :: to be naughty |
| polissonnerie {f} | :: mischief |
| polissonnerie {f} | :: licentiousness |
| politesse {f} | :: politeness, courtesy |
| politesse {f} | :: polite remark/action |
| politicard {adj} [pejorative] | :: politico (attributive) |
| politicard {m} [pejorative] | :: politico |
| politicien {m} | :: politician |
| politicienne {f} | :: feminine noun of politicien |
| politique {adj} | :: political |
| politique {f} [uncountable] | :: politics |
| politique {f} | :: policy |
| politique de l'autruche {f} | :: ostrich politics, ostrich policy |
| politique du saucissonnage {f} | :: salami technique (reach a goal using small steps) |
| politiquement {adv} | :: politically |
| politiquement correct {adj} | :: politically correct ((of language) not objectionable) |
| politiquement correct {m} [France] | :: political correctness |
| politisation {f} | :: politicization |
| politisé {adj} | :: politicised |
| politiser {vt} | :: to politicize |
| politiste {mf} | :: synonym of politologue |
| politologue {mf} | :: political scientist |
| polka {f} | :: polka (dance and music) |
| pollakiurie {f} [pathology] | :: pollakiuria |
| pollen {m} | :: pollen |
| pollénine {f} | :: pollenin |
| Pollestres {prop} {mf} | :: A town of the Roussillon district in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France |
| pollinifère {adj} | :: polliniferous |
| pollinique {adj} [attributive] | :: pollen |
| pollinisateur {adj} [of an insect] | :: pollenising |
| pollinisateur {m} [botany] | :: pollinator |
| pollinisation {f} | :: pollination |
| polliniser {v} | :: to pollinate |
| polluant {adj} | :: polluting, which pollutes |
| polluant {m} | :: pollutant, a substance which pollutes |
| polluer {v} | :: to pollute (create pollution) |
| polluer {v} | :: to soil, to pollute (to defame) |
| pollueur {m} | :: polluter |
| pollueuse {f} | :: feminine noun of pollueur |
| pollupostage {m} [Internet] | :: spam |
| pollutaxe {f} | :: pollution tax |
| pollution {f} | :: pollution |
| Pollux {prop} [Greek god] | :: Pollux |
| Pollux {prop} [star] | :: Pollux |
| Pologne {prop} {f} | :: Poland |
| poloïdal {adj} [physics] | :: poloidal |
| polonais {m} | :: Polish, the Polish language |
| polonais {adj} | :: Polish |
| Polonais {m} | :: Pole, someone from Poland |
| Polonaise {f} | :: feminine noun of Polonais |
| poloniser {v} | :: To Polonize |
| polonium {m} | :: polonium |
| poloniure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: polonide |
| poltron {mf} [pejorative] | :: coward |
| poltron {adj} [pejorative] | :: cowardly |
| poltronnement {adv} | :: cowardly |
| poltronnerie {f} | :: cowardice |
| poly- {prefix} | :: poly- (many) |
| poly. {abbr} | :: alternative form of poly |
| poly {adj} [slang] | :: clipping of polytechnique |
| poly {adj} [slang] | :: clipping of polyvalent |
| poly {mf} [slang] | :: clipping of polytechnique (this is itself an clipping of institut polytechnique or école polytechnique) |
| poly {mf} [slang] | :: clipping of polyvalente (this is itself an clipping of institut polyvalent or école polyvalente) |
| polyacide {m} [chemistry] | :: polyacid |
| polyacrylique {adj} | :: polyacrylic |
| polyacrylique {m} | :: polyacrylic |
| polyade {m} [maths] | :: polyad |
| polyadelphe {adj} [botany] | :: polyadelphous |
| polyadelphie {f} [botany] | :: polyadelphy |
| polyadelphine {f} [mineral] | :: polyadelphite |
| polyadène {adj} [botany] | :: polyadenous (having many glands or nodules) |
| polyadique {adj} [maths] | :: polyadic |
| polyakène {m} [botany] | :: polyachene |
| polyalcool {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyalcohol |
| polyallélisme {m} [genetics] | :: polyallelism |
| polyamour {m} | :: polyamory (practices involving relationships with multiple partners) |
| polyamoureux {adj} | :: polyamorous |
| polyandre {adj} | :: polyandrous |
| polyandrie {f} | :: polyandry |
| polyandrique {adj} | :: polyandrous |
| polyandrisme {m} | :: polyandrism |
| polyanthe {adj} | :: polyanthous |
| polyanthropie {f} | :: polyanthropy |
| polyarchie {f} | :: polyarchy |
| polyarène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyarene |
| polyarthrite {f} | :: polyarthritis |
| polyarthrite rhumatoïde {f} | :: rhumatoid polyarthritis |
| polyarticulaire {adj} | :: polyarticular |
| polyatomique {adj} [chemistry] | :: polyatomic |
| polyazole {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyazole |
| polybasique {adj} [chemistry] | :: polybasic |
| Polybe {prop} {m} | :: Polybius |
| polybutadiène {m} | :: polybutadiene |
| polycalique {adj} | :: polycalic |
| polycamératique {adj} | :: polycameratic |
| polycarboxylate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polycarboxylate |
| polycarburant {adj} | :: multifuel |
| polycarpellé {adj} [botany] | :: polycarpic (having multiple carpels in a fruit) |
| polycarpien {adj} [botany] | :: polycarpic (bearing fruit repeatedly) |
| polycarpien {adj} | :: Of or from Saint-Polycarpe (in Quebec) |
| polycarpique {adj} [botany] | :: polycarpic (all senses) |
| polycentrique {adj} | :: polycentric |
| polycentrisme {m} | :: polycentrism |
| polycéphale {adj} | :: polycephalic |
| polycétide {m} [biochemistry] | :: polyketide |
| polycétone {f} [organic chemistry] | :: polyketone |
| polychète {f} [zoology] | :: polychete |
| polychimiothérapie {f} [medicine] | :: polychemotherapy |
| polychlorure {m} [inorganic chemistry] | :: polychloride |
| polycholie {f} [pathology] | :: polycholia |
| polychore {m} [geometry] | :: polychoron |
| polychorique {adj} [statistics] | :: polychoric |
| polychreste {m} | :: polychrest |
| polychroïsme {m} [physics] | :: polychroism |
| polychroïte {f} | :: polychroite |
| polychromatique {adj} | :: polychromatic (all senses) |
| polychrome {adj} | :: polychrome |
| polychrome {adj} | :: multicoloured |
| polychromer {v} [art] | :: To paint (especially a statue) in many colours |
| polychromie {f} | :: polychromy |
| polychromiser {v} | :: To paint (typically a statue) using polychrome |
| polychrone {adj} | :: polychrone (attributive) |
| polychrone {adj} [physics] | :: polychronous |
| polycistronique {adj} [genetics] | :: polycistronic |
| polyclade {adj} [zoology, botany] | :: polycladose, polycladous |
| polycladie {f} [botany] | :: polyclady |
| polyclinique {f} | :: private hospital |
| polycombustible {adj} | :: synonym of multicombustible |
| polycondensat {m} [chemistry] | :: polycondensate |
| polycondensé {adj} | :: polycondensed |
| polyconique {adj} | :: polyconic |
| polycopiage {m} | :: duplication (of documents) |
| polycopie {f} | :: duplicating (of documents) |
| polycopie {f} | :: duplicate (document) |
| polycopié {adj} | :: duplicated |
| polycopier {vt} | :: to duplicate [documents] |
| polycopieuse {f} | :: duplicator (duplicating machine) |
| polycorde {m} [music] | :: polychord |
| polycorde {adj} [music] | :: polychordal |
| polycotylaire {adj} [botany] | :: polycotyledonous |
| polycratie {f} | :: polycracy |
| polycristallin {adj} | :: polycrystalline |
| polyculturalisme {m} | :: synonym of multiculturalisme |
| polycyclique {adj} | :: polycyclic |
| polycylindrique {adj} | :: multi-cylinder (of an engine) |
| polydactyle {adj} | :: polydactylous |
| polydactylie {f} | :: polydactyly |
| polydactylisme {m} | :: polydactylism |
| polydenté {adj} | :: polydentate |
| polydiméthylsiloxane {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polydimethylsiloxane |
| polydipsie {f} | :: polydipsia |
| polydispersé {adj} | :: polydisperse |
| polydispersité {f} | :: polydispersity |
| polyèdre {m} | :: polyhedron (geometry: solid figure) |
| polyedrique {adj} | :: alternative form of polyédrique |
| polyédrique {adj} | :: polyhedral |
| polyembryonie {f} [botany] | :: polyembryony |
| polyène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyene |
| polyépoxyde {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyepoxide, epoxy (resin) |
| polyergue {f} | :: Amazon ant (of the genus Polyergus) |
| polyestérifier {v} | :: To polyesterify |
| polyéthylène {m} | :: polyethylene |
| polyextrêmophile {mf} [biology] | :: polyextremophile |
| polyfonctionnel {adj} | :: Polyfunctional |
| polygalactie {f} | :: polygalactia |
| polygale {m} | :: milkwort |
| polygaline {f} [obsolete, chemistry] | :: polygalin |
| polygalique {adj} | :: polygalic |
| polygame {adj} | :: polygamous |
| polygame {mf} | :: polygamist |
| polygamie {f} | :: polygamy |
| polygamique {adj} | :: polygamic |
| polygamite {m} | :: polygamist |
| polygastrique {adj} | :: polygastric |
| polygenèse {adj} | :: polygenetic |
| polygenèse {f} | :: polygenesis |
| polygénèse {adj} | :: alternative form of polygenèse |
| polygénèse {mf} | :: alternative form of polygenèse |
| polygénétique {adj} | :: polygenetic |
| polygénique {adj} | :: polygenic |
| polygénisme {m} | :: polygenism |
| polygéniste {adj} | :: polygenist |
| polygéniste {mf} | :: polygenist |
| polyglotte {adj} | :: polyglot |
| polyglotte {mf} | :: a polyglot |
| polyglottement {adv} | :: polyglottically |
| polyglottement {adv} | :: multilingually |
| polyglotter {v} | :: To speak several languages |
| polyglottisme {m} | :: polyglotism |
| polygonacée {f} | :: knotweed (of family Polygonaceae) |
| polygonal {adj} | :: polygonal |
| polygonation {f} | :: polygonation |
| polygone {m} | :: polygon |
| polygoniser {v} | :: To polygonize |
| polygonométrie {f} [maths] | :: polygonometry |
| polygramme {m} [linguistics] | :: polygraph |
| polygraphe {m} | :: polygraph (device to discern if a subject is lying) |
| polygraphe {m} | :: polygraph (all other senses) |
| polygraphie {f} | :: polygraphy |
| polygraphique {adj} | :: polygraphic |
| polygraphiste {mf} | :: polygraphist |
| polygynandrie {f} [biology] | :: polygynandry |
| polygyne {adj} | :: polygynous |
| polygynique {adj} | :: polygynous |
| polyhandicap {m} | :: polyhandicap |
| polyhandicapé {adj} | :: Having a polyhandicap |
| polyholoside {m} [carbohydrate] | :: polysaccharide |
| polyhydrite {f} [mineral] | :: polyhydrite |
| polyhydroxyalcanoate {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| polyinsaturé {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: polyunsaturated |
| polyiodure {m} [chemistry] | :: polyiodide |
| polyisoprène {m} [organic chemistry] | :: polyisoprene |
| polykétide {m} | :: alternative form of polycétide |
| polykystique {adj} [medicine] | :: polycystic |
| polylactique {adj} [organic chemistry] | :: polylactic |
| polylobé {adj} | :: polylobate |
| polymaste {adj} | :: polymastic |
| polymastie {f} | :: polymastia |
| polymathe {mf} | :: polymath |
| polymathie {f} | :: polymathy |
| polymathique {adj} | :: polymathic |
| polymathisme {m} | :: polymathy |
| polymédicamenté {adj} | :: Requiring several different medications |
| polymélie {m} [pathology] | :: polymelia |
| polyménorrhée {f} | :: polymenorrhea |
| polymérase {f} | :: polymerase |
| polymère {m} | :: polymer |
| polymérique {adj} [chemistry] | :: polymeric |
| polymèrique {adj} [chemistry] | :: polymeric |
| polymérisable {adj} | :: polymerizable |
| polymérisation {f} | :: polymerization |
| polymérisé {adj} | :: polymerized |
| polymériser {vt} [chemistry] | :: to polymerize |
| polymérisme {m} [chemistry] | :: polymerism |
| polymétallique {adj} | :: polymetallic |
| polymicrogyrie {f} [pathology] | :: polymicrogyria |
| polymorphe {adj} | :: polymorphic |
| polymorphe {adj} | :: polymorphous |
| polymorphie {m} | :: polymorphia, polymorphism |
| polymorphique {adj} | :: polymorphic |
| polymorphisme {m} | :: polymorphism |
| polymorphisme {m} [object-oriented programming] | :: polymorphism |
| polymyosite {f} [pathology] | :: polymyositis, dermatomyositis |
| polymythie {f} | :: polymythy |
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