| pé {m} |
:: letter: p |
| Pô {prop} {m} |
:: Po (Italian river) |
| PA {initialism} |
:: CV; 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 |
| Pañchatantra {prop} {m} |
:: Panchatantra (a collection of Sanskrit and Pali animal fables in verse and prose) |
| 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] |
:: friend, buddy |
| Padoue {prop} {f} |
:: Padua (province) |
| Padoue {prop} {f} |
:: Padua (town) |
| paella {f} [countable and uncountable] |
:: paella |
| païen {adj} |
:: pagan, heathen |
| païen {m} |
:: pagan, heathen |
| 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 |
| pagaïe {f} |
:: alternative spelling of pagaille |
| pagaie {f} |
:: paddle (two-handed, single-bladed oar) |
| 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 |
| péage {m} |
:: toll, payment |
| péage {m} |
:: toll booth |
| péage {m} |
:: paywall |
| page d'accueil {f} |
:: home page (of a Web site) |
| péager {m} |
:: A person who receives a toll or manages a toll booth |
| 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 |
| péagère {f} |
:: feminine singular of péager |
| paie {f} |
:: pay, salary |
| paiement {m} |
:: payment |
| paillard {adj} |
:: bawdy, lewd |
| paillardement {adv} |
:: bawdily |
| 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 |
| 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 au chocolat {m} |
:: A French snack consisting of a pastry, normally similar to a croissant, with chocolate inside |
| pain blanc {m} |
:: white bread |
| pain à cacheter {m} |
:: wafer (of sealing wax etc.) |
| pain crestou {m} |
:: A type of granary 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} |
:: minimal pair (pair of words) |
| paire torsadée {f} |
:: twisted pair |
| pairie {f} |
:: peerage |
| paisablement {adv} |
:: peacefully; quietly |
| paisible {adj} |
:: peaceful |
| paisiblement {adv} |
:: peacefully |
| paitre {v} |
:: alternative spelling of paître |
| paix {f} |
:: peace |
| pajot {m} [slang] |
:: bed, fleabag, pit |
| 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 |
| paléacé {adj} |
:: paleaceous |
| palace {m} |
:: luxury hotel |
| 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 |
| 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} {f} {p} |
:: Palau |
| palatal {adj} [anatomy, phonetics] |
:: palatal |
| palatalisation {f} |
:: 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) |
| palefrenier {m} |
:: ostler, groom |
| palefroi {m} |
:: palfrey |
| 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 |
| paletot {m} |
:: jacket |
| palette {f} |
:: palette |
| paélia {f} |
:: alternative spelling of paella |
| 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 |
| palissade {f} |
:: fence, palisade |
| palissade {f} |
:: stockade |
| palissandre {m} |
:: rosewood |
| paëlla {f} |
:: alternative spelling of paella |
| palladien {adj} |
:: Palladian |
| palladium {m} |
:: palladium |
| Pallas {prop} [Greek mythology] |
:: Pallas |
| Pallas {prop} [astronomy] |
:: Pallas, the second asteroid discovered |
| palliatif {adj} |
:: palliative |
| pallier {vt} |
:: palliate (to relieve the symptoms of) |
| pallisandre {m} |
:: pallisander |
| pallénis {m} |
:: Any plant of the genus Pallenis |
| palmé {adj} [of feet] |
:: webbed |
| palmé {adj} [botany] |
:: palmate |
| 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 |
| palmeraie {f} |
:: palm grove |
| palmier {m} |
:: palm, palm tree |
| palmier {m} |
:: palmier (biscuit) |
| palmier des Everglades {m} |
:: Everglades palm, Acoelorraphe wrightii |
| palmier à huile {m} |
:: oil palm |
| palmipède {m} |
:: palmiped |
| palmiste {m} |
:: oil palm (or several other related palm trees) |
| palmitique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: palmitic |
| Palmyre {prop} |
:: Palmyra |
| 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 |
| paléochrétien {adj} |
:: paleochristian |
| paléoclimat {m} |
:: paleoclimate |
| paléoclimatique {adj} |
:: paleoclimatic |
| paléoclimatologie {f} |
:: paleoclimatology |
| Paléocène {prop} {m} |
:: Paleocene period |
| paléoécologie {f} |
:: paleoecology |
| paléocoprologie {f} |
:: paleocoprology |
| paléoenvironnement {m} |
:: paleoenvironment |
| Paléogène {prop} {m} |
:: Paleogene period |
| paléogéographie {f} |
:: paleogeography |
| paléogéographique {adj} |
:: paleogeographic |
| paléographe {mf} |
:: paleographer |
| paléographie {f} |
:: paleography |
| palæographie {f} |
:: obsolete form of paléographie |
| palæographique {adj} |
:: obsolete form of paléographique |
| paléographique {adj} |
:: Paleographic; palaeographical; palaeographic; paleographical |
| paléoichnologie {f} |
:: paleoichnology |
| palois {adj} |
:: Of or from Pau |
| Palois {m} |
:: Native or inhabitant of Pau |
| Paloise {f} |
:: feminine singular of Palois |
| paléolithique {m} |
:: Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) |
| Paléolithique {prop} {f} [history] |
:: The Paleolithic or Old Stone Age |
| palæologie {f} |
:: obsolete form of paléologie (paleology) |
| paléologie {f} |
:: paleology |
| paléomagnétisme {m} |
:: paleomagnetism |
| palombe {f} |
:: wood pigeon |
| paléoneurologie {f} |
:: paleoneurology |
| paléontologie {f} |
:: paleontology (study of prehistoric forms of life) |
| paléontologique {adj} |
:: paleontological |
| paléontologue {mf} |
:: paleontologist |
| paléopathologie {f} |
:: paleopathology |
| paléopathologique {adj} |
:: paleopathological |
| paléoprotérozoïque {adj} |
:: Paleoproterozoic |
| Paléoprotérozoïque {m} |
:: Paleoproterozoic |
| paléosismologie {f} |
:: paleoseismology |
| paléotectonique {adj} [geology] |
:: paleotectonic |
| palourde {f} |
:: clam |
| paléozoologie {f} |
:: paleozoology |
| paléozoïque {adj} |
:: Paleozoic |
| palpable {adj} |
:: palpable |
| palpablement {adv} |
:: palpably |
| palpation {f} |
:: palpation |
| 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 |
| Palæstine {prop} {f} |
:: obsolete form of Palestine |
| paltoquet {m} [dated] |
:: A rude or uncouth person |
| paltoquet {m} |
:: A pretentious person |
| palétuvier {m} |
:: mangrove, mangle |
| 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 |
| Pamir {prop} {m} |
:: Pamir (mountain range in Central Asia) |
| 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} |
:: lap (of coat) |
| pan {m} |
:: patch, area, section, sector |
| pan {interj} |
:: bang! (sound of a gun) |
| pan {interj} |
:: bam! |
| pané {adj} |
:: breaded (covered in breadcrumbs) |
| péan {m} |
:: paean |
| panacée {f} |
:: panacea, cure-all |
| panaché {m} |
:: shandy (mix of beer and lemonade) |
| panaché {m} |
:: mixture |
| panaché {adj} |
:: mixed, variegated |
| panachage {m} |
:: blend, mix, mixture |
| panache {m} |
:: panache (all senses) |
| panache {m} |
:: (Canada) the bulk of antlers of deer and moose |
| panacher {v} |
:: to add a panache |
| panacher {v} |
:: to mix colours (as in a panache) |
| panacher {v} |
:: to mix |
| panache éruptif {m} |
:: eruption column |
| 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 |
| panamien {adj} |
:: Panamanian |
| panaméricain {adj} |
:: Pan-American |
| panaméricanisme {m} |
:: Pan-Americanism |
| 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) |
| pancrace {m} |
:: pankration (Ancient Greek martial art) |
| pancréas {m} [anatomy] |
:: the pancreas |
| pancréatique {adj} |
:: pancreatic |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| panégyrique {m} |
:: panegyric, eulogy |
| panégyriste {m} |
:: panegyrist |
| panhellénique {adj} |
:: Panhellenic |
| panic {m} [botany] |
:: Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass |
| 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) |
| panneau {m} |
:: sign; signpost |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pansu {adj} |
:: potbellied, paunchy |
| 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 |
| pantalonnade {f} |
:: slapstick |
| pantalonnade {f} |
:: farce |
| pantelant {adj} |
:: panting, gasping (for breath) |
| panthéisme {m} |
:: pantheism |
| panthéiste {adj} |
:: pantheistic |
| panthéiste {mf} |
:: pantheist |
| panthéon {m} |
:: pantheon |
| panthère {f} |
:: panther |
| pantin {m} |
:: puppet |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: stay-at-home; homebird [UK], homebody [US] |
| pantouflard {adj} [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) |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: 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 carbone {m} |
:: carbon paper (sheet of paper used to make carbon copies) |
| 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 à mouches {m} |
:: flypaper |
| 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
Alsacian woman wearing a black papillon.
|
| 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} |
:: foil wrapped around food during cooking |
| papillote {f} |
:: Meal cooked in a foil |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| paquebot {m} |
:: ship, liner |
| paquer {vt} |
:: to pack (fish) in a box for transportation |
| 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) |
| paqueté {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] |
:: drunk, wasted |
| paquetage {m} |
:: kit |
| paquetage {m} |
:: package |
| par {prep} |
:: through |
| par {prep} |
:: by (used to introduce a means) |
| 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 phrase) |
| par {prep} |
:: on, at, in (used to denote a time 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 {prep} |
:: by (used to introduce the agent in a passive construction) |
| par {m} [golf] |
:: par |
| paré {adj} |
:: ready, prepared, all set |
| par- {prefix} |
:: per- (all meanings) |
| para- {prefix} |
:: para- (all senses) |
| para- {prefix} |
:: para- |
| parabancaire {adj} |
:: banking-related |
| parabanique {adj} |
:: parabanic |
| parabase {f} |
:: parabasis |
| parabellum {m} |
:: parabellum (all senses) |
| parable {adj} |
:: preventable (able to be or fit to be prevented) |
| parabène {m} |
:: paraben |
| 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 |
| paracentrique {adj} |
:: paracentric |
| paracentèse {f} [surgery] |
:: paracentesis |
| paracerque {m} |
:: paracercus |
| parachevé {adj} |
:: completed, finalized |
| parachevable {adj} |
:: completable |
| 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 |
| parachutisme {m} |
:: parachuting |
| parachutiste {mf} |
:: parachutist |
| parachèvement {m} |
:: finalization |
| parachèvement {m} |
:: completion |
| parachèvement {m} |
:: perfection |
| paraclet {m} |
:: paraclete (an advocate, especially the Holy Spirit) |
| paraclimacique {adj} [ecology] |
:: paraclimactic |
| paraclimax {m} [ecology] |
:: paraclimax |
| paraclinique {adj} |
:: paraclinical |
| paraclétique {adj} |
:: paracletic |
| 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 |
| paracousie {f} |
:: paracusis |
| paracétamol {m} |
:: paracetamol, acetaminophen |
| 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 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 |
| parafe {m} |
:: alternative form of paraphe |
| parafer {vt} |
:: alternative form of parapher |
| paraffiné {adj} |
:: waxed |
| paraffinage {m} |
:: paraffining |
| 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 |
| paréage {m} |
:: A feudal treaty recognising joint sovereignty over a territory by two rulers |
| paragenèse {f} [geology] |
:: paragenesis |
| parageustie {f} |
:: parageusia |
| paraglosse {f} |
:: paraglossa |
| paragénèse {f} |
:: alternative form of paragenèse |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: parallel |
| parallèlement {adv} |
:: parallelly |
| 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 |
| parallélépipède {m} [geometry] |
:: parallelepiped |
| parallélépipédique {adj} |
:: parallelepipedic |
| parallélépipèdique {adj} |
:: parallelepipedic |
| paralogie {f} |
:: paralogy, paralogism |
| paralogique {adj} |
:: paralogical |
| paralogisme {m} |
:: paralogism |
| paralympien {m} [sport] |
:: Paralympian |
| paralympienne {f} |
:: Paralympian (female) |
| paralympique {adj} |
:: Paralympic |
| paralysant {adj} |
:: crippling |
| paralysant {adj} |
:: paralyzing |
| paralysateur {adj} |
:: paralyzing |
| paralysateur {adj} |
:: crippling |
| paralyser {v} |
:: to paralyse / paralyze |
| paralysie {f} |
:: paralysis |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| paramucique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: paramucic |
| paramutation {f} [genetics] |
:: paramutation |
| paranan {m} |
:: Paranan / Palanan |
| paranatellon {m} |
:: paranatellon |
| paranatellonique {adj} |
:: paranatellon (attributive) |
| 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 |
| paranéoptère {m} |
:: Any louse of the clade Paraneoptera |
| 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 |
| parapharmacie {f} |
:: pharmacy, chemist's (UK) / drugstore (US) |
| paraphe {m} |
:: paraph |
| paraphe {m} |
:: initials |
| 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 |
| paraphénylènediamine {f} [organic compound] |
:: paraphenylenediamine |
| 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 |
| paraphylie {f} [systematics] |
:: paraphyly |
| paraphylétique {adj} [systematics] |
:: paraphyletic (excluding some descendants of the most recent common ancestor) |
| paraphyse {f} |
:: paraphysis |
| parapleure {f} |
:: parapleura |
| paraplexie {f} |
:: synonym of paraplégie |
| paraplégie {f} [pathology] |
:: paraplegia (paralysed condition) |
| paraplégique {adj} |
:: paraplegic |
| paraplégique {mf} |
:: paraplegic |
| 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 |
| parapétrolier {adj} |
:: oil delivery / services (attributive) |
| parapublic {adj} [economics] |
:: Having capital in both the public and private sectors |
| parareligieux {adj} |
:: parareligious |
| pararthrème {m} |
:: subluxation |
| parasange {f} |
:: parasang |
| parascolaire {adj} |
:: extracurricular |
| parascève {f} |
:: Parasceve |
| parasexualité {f} |
:: parasexuality |
| parasexuel {adj} |
:: parasexual |
| parasismique {adj} |
:: paraseismic |
| parasité {adj} |
:: parasitized |
| parasitaire {adj} |
:: parasitic, parasitical |
| parasitairement {adv} |
:: parasitically |
| parasiter {v} |
:: To parasitize |
| parasitiforme {m} |
:: parasitiform |
| parasitique {adj} |
:: parasitic |
| parasitiquement {adv} |
:: parasitically |
| parasitisme {m} |
:: parasitism |
| parasitémie {f} [pathology] |
:: parasitemia |
| parasitoïde {m} |
:: parasitoid |
| parasitologie {f} |
:: parasitology |
| parasitologique {adj} |
:: parasitological |
| parasitologiste {mf} |
:: synonym of parasitologue |
| parasitologue {mf} |
:: parasitologist |
| parasitose {f} [pathology] |
:: parasitosis |
| paraskevidékatriaphobie {f} |
:: paraskavedekatriaphobia |
| paraski {m} |
:: paraskiing, kitesurfing |
| parasélène {mf} |
:: paraselene, moon dog |
| parasol {m} |
:: parasol |
| parasomnie {f} [pathology] |
:: parasomnia |
| parasportif {adj} |
:: parasport (attributive) |
| parassien {adj} |
:: Of or from Parassy |
| Parassy {prop} |
:: A commune in the Cher department of Centre |
| parastatal {adj} |
:: parastatal |
| 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 |
| paraétatique {adj} |
:: parastatal |
| parataxe {f} |
:: parataxis |
| paratexte {m} |
:: paratext |
| paratextualité {f} |
:: paratextuality |
| parathormone {f} |
:: parathyroid hormone |
| parathyroïde {f} |
:: parathyroid |
| parathyroïdie {f} [anatomy] |
:: parathyroid (gland) |
| parathyroïdien {adj} |
:: parathyroid (attributive) |
| paratélique {adj} |
:: paratelic |
| paratonnerre {m} |
:: lightning rod |
| paraître {v} |
:: to appear (become visible) |
| paraître {v} |
:: to be published |
| paraître {v} |
:: to appear, to seem |
| paraître {m} |
:: appearance |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| parcomètre {m} |
:: parking meter |
| par conséquent {adv} |
:: consequently; as a result |
| par conséquent {adv} |
:: thus, ergo |
| par conséquent {adv} |
:: accordingly |
| par contre {adv} [idiomatic] |
:: on the other hand (from another point of view) |
| par contumace {adv} |
:: in absentia (while not present) |
| par à-coups {adv} |
:: in fits and starts |
| 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 |
| parcouru {adj} |
:: browsed, skimmed |
| par cœur {adv} |
:: by heart, by rote |
| par-delà {prep} |
:: beyond, across |
| pardessus {m} |
:: overcoat (garment) |
| par-dessus {prep} |
:: over (the top of) |
| par-dessus bord {adv} |
:: overboard |
| par-dessus la jambe {adv} |
:: slipshodly, slapdash, rushedly |
| pardieu {interj} |
:: 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 |
| pare-balle {adj} |
:: bulletproof |
| pare-brise {m} |
:: windscreen (UK), windshield (US) |
| pare-chocs {m} |
:: bumper [UK], fender [US] |
| pare-feu {m} |
:: fireguard |
| pare-feu {m} |
:: (in forest) firebreak |
| pare-feu {m} [computing, Internet] |
:: firewall |
| pareil {adj} |
:: such |
| pareil {adj} |
:: Like, alike, same |
| pareillement {adv} |
:: likewise; in the same way; equally |
| pareillement {adv} |
:: too; also |
| parement {m} [construction, clothing] |
:: facing |
| parenchyme {m} |
:: parenchyma |
| parent {m} |
:: relative, relation, family member |
| parent {m} [in the plural] |
:: ancestors |
| parent {m} [in the plural] |
:: parent |
| parent {adj} |
:: related |
| parent {adj} |
:: similar |
| parenté {f} |
:: kinship |
| Parent {prop} |
:: surname |
| parental {adj} |
:: parental |
| parentalité {f} |
:: parenthood |
| parente {f} |
:: feminine noun of parent |
| parenthèse {f} |
:: parenthesis; bracket |
| parentèle {f} |
:: relative, relation |
| parentèle {f} |
:: (collectively) kin, relatives |
| parentèle {f} |
:: (biology, inheritance) parentela |
| parentéral {adj} |
:: parenteral |
| parentéralement {adv} |
:: parenterally |
| parer {v} |
:: to adorn; to bedeck |
| parer {v} |
:: to fend off |
| parer {v} [fencing] |
:: to parry |
| parer {vr} [se parer] |
:: to get dressed up (in one's finest clothes) |
| 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 ex. {abbr} |
:: par exemple |
| par excellence {adv} |
:: by or in virtue of excellence |
| par exemple {adv} |
:: for example, for instance |
| parfaire {v} |
:: 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) |
| 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 |
| paréidolie {f} |
:: pareidolia |
| paréidolien {adj} |
:: pareidolic |
| parier {v} |
:: to bet (make a guess about the outcome of an event) |
| parieur {m} |
:: gambler |
| parieuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of parieur |
| parigot {adj} [colloquial] |
:: Parisian |
| Parigot {m} [colloquial] |
:: Parisian |
| Parigote {f} |
:: feminine noun of Parigot |
| Paris {prop} {mf} {m} |
:: Paris (in France) |
| 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 |
| parité {f} |
:: equality, parity |
| paritaire {adj} |
:: parity, equality (attributive) |
| paritaire {adj} |
:: egalitarian |
| pariétaire {f} |
:: pellitory, lichwort (Parietaria officinalis) |
| pariétal {adj} |
:: parietal |
| parjure {m} |
:: perjury, oathbreach |
| parjure {m} |
:: betrayal |
| parjurer {v} |
:: to perjure; to commit perjury |
| parking {m} |
:: car park |
| parkour {m} |
:: Free running, parkour |
| par là {adv} |
:: over there |
| parlé {adj} |
:: colloquial |
| parlabilité {f} |
:: speakability |
| parlable {adj} [of a person] |
:: reasonable |
| parlant {adj} |
:: telling, eloquent |
| parlement {m} |
:: parliament |
| parlementaire {adj} |
:: parliamentary |
| 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 français comme une vache espagnole {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to speak French poorly |
| 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? |
| parélie {f} |
:: alternative form of parhélie |
| 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 |
| parmentier {m} |
:: mashed potato |
| parmesan {adj} |
:: Parmesan (from Parma) |
| par mégarde {adv} |
:: inadvertently; accidentally; by mistake |
| parmi {prep} |
:: among |
| parmi {prep} |
:: amidst |
| Parménas {prop} |
:: Parmenas |
| Parnasse {prop} {m} |
:: Parnassus (Greek mountain) |
| Parnasse {prop} {m} |
:: Parnassianism, 19th century literary movement |
| parænese {f} |
:: obsolete form of parénèse |
| parænetique {adj} |
:: obsolete form of parénétique |
| parénèse {f} [religion] |
:: Parenesis |
| parénétique {adj} |
:: parenetic, parenetical |
| parodie {f} |
:: parody |
| parodier {v} |
:: to parody |
| parodique {adj} |
:: parodic |
| parodiquement {adv} |
:: parodically |
| 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, plural, paroles] |
:: lyrics, words (of a song) |
| parole {f} |
:: promise, word |
| parole {f} |
:: floor; the right to speak in a legislative assembly |
| Parole {prop} |
:: Word |
| 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 |
| paroxysme {m} |
:: height |
| paroxysme {m} |
:: paroxysm |
| paroxystique {adj} |
:: paroxysmal |
| parpaing {m} |
:: through stone |
| parpaing {m} [metonymy] |
:: breeze-block (building block) |
| parpaing {adj} |
:: through (stone, ashlar) |
| 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 |
| parésie {f} |
:: paresis (partial paralysis) |
| 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) |
| 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} |
:: 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) |
| Parthie {prop} |
:: Parthia |
| parthénogenèse {f} [biology] |
:: parthenogenesis |
| parthénogénétique {adj} [biology] |
:: parthenogenetic |
| parthénogénétiquement {adv} |
:: parthenogenetically |
| parti {adj} [heraldry] |
:: Divided into two equal parts vertically, per pale; said of an escutcheon |
| parti {m} |
:: party (political) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Parti conservateur {prop} [politics] |
:: Conservative Party or Conservative party |
| particulaire {adj} |
:: particulate |
| particulaire {adj} [physics] |
:: particle (attributive) |
| 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 {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 du discours {f} |
:: part of speech |
| partiel {adj} |
:: partial (part, no full) |
| partiel {m} |
:: overtone (harmonic) |
| partiel {m} [France, colloquial] |
:: midterm exam |
| partiellement {adv} |
:: partially, in part |
| 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 {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 fumée {vi} [figuratively] |
:: to go up in smoke |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| parâtre {m} |
:: stepfather, father-in-law (especially an evil one) |
| 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 |
| 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] |
:: not |
| pascal {adj} |
:: paschal |
| pascal {m} |
:: pascal |
| Pascal {prop} |
:: given name of Latin origin |
| Pascal {prop} |
:: surname |
| Pascale {prop} |
:: given name, feminine form of Pascal |
| Pascaline {prop} |
:: given name, feminine diminutive form of Pascal |
| pasdaran {m} |
:: pasdaran |
| 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 nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles {proverb} |
:: no news is good news |
| pas de problème {interj} |
:: No problem! |
| pas de quoi {interj} |
:: you're welcome (after being thanked) |
| pas des masses {adv} |
:: not much, not many |
| 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 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 à pas {adv} |
:: step by step (gradually) |
| pas question {interj} |
:: no way (indicates rejection) |
| passé {m} |
:: past tense |
| passé {m} |
:: past (opposite of future) |
| 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 clouté {m} [European French] |
:: Pedestrian crossing |
| passage à l'acte {m} [psychology] |
:: Impulsive acting out |
| passage à niveau {m} |
:: Level 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 |
| passage à tabac {m} [idiomatic] |
:: a thorough beating |
| passage à vide {m} |
:: A funny turn, a bad patch, a slump, a dry spell |
| 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 |
| passé antérieur {m} [grammar] |
:: past anterior |
| passation {f} [legal] |
:: handover (of legal documents), transferal (of power or office) |
| passation de pouvoir {f} |
:: handover of power or office |
| passé composé {m} |
:: A past tense in French grammar, to express a completed ('perfect') action |
| passe {f} |
:: pass (the act of passing) |
| passe {f} |
:: pass (passageway) |
| passe {f} [sports] |
:: pass |
| passe {f} |
:: pass (document allowing entry) |
| passe décisive {f} [soccer] |
:: assist |
| passe-droit {m} |
:: (unwarranted) favour, favouritism |
| passe-droit {m} |
:: permission |
| passe en avant {f} [rugby] |
:: forward pass |
| 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 skip a go |
| passer {v} |
:: to cross (a border) |
| passer {v} [legal] |
:: to pass |
| 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 {v} |
:: to spend (time) |
| 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 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 |
| passerage {f} |
:: cress (of genus Lepidium) |
| passer au crible {vt} |
:: 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 de vie à trépas {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to pass away, to die |
| passereau {m} |
:: sparrow |
| passereau {m} |
:: passerine |
| passerelle {f} |
:: footbridge |
| passerelle {f} [nautical] |
:: bridge |
| passerelle {f} [aviation, nautical] |
:: gangway, bridge |
| passerelle {f} [computing] |
:: gateway |
| 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 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 l'arme à gauche {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to die, to kick the bucket |
| passer le Rubicon {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to cross the Rubicon |
| passer les bornes {v} |
:: to go too far |
| passer outre {v} |
:: to overlook |
| passer outre {v} |
:: to ignore |
| passer outre {v} |
:: to carry on regardless |
| passer par les armes {v} |
:: To execute by firing squad |
| passer par les mains {v} |
:: to pass through the hands (of) |
| 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 à tabac {v} |
:: to beat thoroughly |
| passer un savon {v} [followed by the preposition à] |
:: to tell off, to haul someone over the coals |
| passe-temps {m} |
:: hobby; pastime |
| passette {f} |
:: strainer |
| passeur {m} [sports] |
:: passer |
| passeur {m} |
:: ferryman |
| passeur {m} |
:: smuggler; (drugs) courier |
| passeuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of passeur |
| 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 |
| passionné {adj} |
:: passionate, impassioned |
| passionnant {adj} |
:: evoking passion or enthusiasm |
| passionnel {adj} |
:: passionate |
| passionnel {adj} |
:: passion (attributive) |
| passionnellement {adv} |
:: passionately |
| passionner {v} |
:: to impassionate, to motivate |
| passionnément {adv} |
:: passionately |
| passéisme {m} |
:: passeism (nostalgia for the past) |
| passéiste {adj} |
:: passéist, backward-looking |
| 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 |
| passé simple {m} |
:: past historic |
| passé surcomposé {m} [grammar] |
:: A past tense using two auxiliary verbs to conjugate |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pastis {m} |
:: pastis |
| pastis {m} [South East of France] |
:: mess, difficult situation |
| pastophore {m} [historical] |
:: pastophorus |
| pastoral {adj} |
:: pastoral |
| pastoralisme {m} |
:: pastoralism |
| pastoraliste {adj} |
:: pastoralist |
| pastourelle {f} |
:: feminine noun of pastoureau |
| pastèque {f} |
:: watermelon (plant) |
| pastèque {f} |
:: watermelon (fruit) |
| pastrami {m} |
:: pastrami |
| pat {m} [chess] |
:: stalemate |
| PAT {abbr} [Quebec] |
:: PAT ; Pointe-aux-Trembles - a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada |
| patache {f} |
:: patache (carriage) |
| patachon {m} [historical] |
:: coachdriver (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 town in Lycia) |
| patate {f} [chiefly Canada, Louisiana French] |
:: potato |
| patates pilées {fp} |
:: mashed potatoes |
| 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) |
| patchouli {m} |
:: patchouli (plant) |
| patchouli {m} |
:: patchouli (oil) |
| patchwork {m} |
:: patchwork |
| patelin {m} |
:: backwater |
| patelin {m} |
:: one-horse town |
| patelin {adj} |
:: fawning; unctuous |
| patelle {f} |
:: limpet |
| patemment {adv} |
:: patently |
| Patenaude {prop} |
:: surname |
| patenté {adj} |
:: patented |
| patenté {adj} |
:: licensed |
| patenôtre {f} [obsolete, religion] |
:: the Lord's prayer |
| paternalisme {m} |
:: A paternalism |
| paternaliste {adj} |
:: paternalist |
| paternel {adj} |
:: paternal |
| paternellement {adv} |
:: paternally |
| paternité {f} |
:: fatherhood |
| paternité {f} |
:: authorship |
| pateter {v} [Switzerland] |
:: to dawdle |
| -pathe {suffix} |
:: -path |
| -pathie {suffix} |
:: -pathy |
| pathogène {adj} |
:: pathogenic |
| pathogénie {f} |
:: pathogeny |
| pathogénique {adj} [medicine] |
:: pathogenic |
| pathogénèse {f} |
:: pathogenesis |
| pathologie {f} |
:: pathology |
| pathologique {adj} |
:: pathological; pathologic |
| pathologiquement {adv} |
:: pathologically |
| pathologiste {mf} |
:: pathologist (expert in pathology) |
| pathétique {adj} |
:: pathetic (all meanings) |
| pathétiquement {adv} |
:: pathetically |
| 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 |
| patienter {v} |
:: to be patient |
| patienter {v} |
:: to wait patiently |
| patientèle {f} [neologism] |
:: all the patients of a medical practitioner; patient base, body of patients |
| 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 artistique {m} |
:: figure skating |
| patinage de vitesse {m} |
:: speed skating (the sport of racing around an oval course on ice skates) |
| patinage à glace {m} |
:: ice skating |
| patinage à roues alignées {m} |
:: in-line skating |
| patinage à roulettes {m} |
:: rollerskating |
| patinage synchronisé {m} |
:: synchronized skating [US] / synchronised skating [UK] |
| patine {f} |
:: patina, an oxidation like on bronze or similar effect |
| patiner {v} |
:: to ice-skate |
| patiner {v} [figurative] |
:: to falter |
| patineur {m} |
:: skater |
| patineuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of patineur |
| patin à glace {m} [uncountable] |
:: ice skating |
| patin à glace {m} [countable] |
:: ice skate |
| patinoire {f} |
:: skating rink |
| 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 |
| patio {m} |
:: patio |
| patisserie {f} [Canada] |
:: cake shop |
| patisserie {f} [Canada] |
:: the pastries produced by a patissier |
| patissoie {f} |
:: Variant of pâtissoie |
| Patmos {prop} |
:: Patmos (island of Greece) |
| patène {f} |
:: paten, diskos |
| patois {m} |
:: patois (French dialect) |
| patois {m} |
:: patois (any regional dialect) |
| 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 |
| patou {m} |
:: Pyrenean mountain dog |
| patraque {adj} |
:: out of sorts, under the weather |
| paître {vi} |
:: to graze |
| patère {f} [archaeology] |
:: patera |
| patère {f} |
:: peg (a protrusion used to hang things on) |
| patriarcal {adj} |
:: patriarchal |
| patriarcalement {adv} |
:: patriarchally |
| patriarcat {m} |
:: patriarchate |
| patriarche {m} |
:: patriarch |
| patrice {m} [antiquity] |
:: patrician |
| Patrice {prop} {m} |
:: given name, French form of Patrick |
| Patricia {prop} |
:: given name, feminine noun of Patrice |
| 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, country of origin |
| 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 |
| 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 {f} |
:: paw [of animal] |
| patte {f} |
:: leg [of animal] |
| patte {f} [anatomy, colloquial] |
:: leg [of human] |
| 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 |
| paturon {m} |
:: pastern |
| 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 |
| paumé {adj} |
:: lost |
| paumé {adj} |
:: out of one's depth |
| paumé {adj} |
:: godforsaken |
| paume {f} |
:: palm (of hand) |
| paumer {v} [obsolete] |
:: to strike, hit |
| paumer {v} [colloquial] |
:: to lose |
| paupiette {f} |
:: paupiette, (veal) olive |
| paupière {f} |
:: eyelid |
| paupérisation {f} |
:: pauperization |
| paupériser {vt} |
:: to pauperize |
| paupérisme {m} |
:: pauperism |
| paurométabole {m} |
:: paurometabole |
| paurométabole {adj} |
:: paurometabolous |
| pause {f} |
:: pause, break |
| pause {f} [music] |
:: rest |
| -pause {suffix} |
:: -pause |
| 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 {mf} |
:: poor person; pauper |
| pauvre comme Job {adj} [simile] |
:: extremely poor; poor as a snail |
| pauvrement {adv} |
:: poorly |
| pauvreté {f} |
:: poverty |
| pauvret {m} |
:: Poor little thing (term of commiseration) |
| pauvrette {f} |
:: Poor little thing (term of commiseration) |
| pauvrissime {adj} |
:: Very poor |
| pavé {m} |
:: cobblestone |
| pavé {m} |
:: cobblestone street |
| pavé {m} [geometry] |
:: parallelepiped |
| pavé {m} |
:: pavé (rectangular food) |
| pavé {m} [colloquial] |
:: a thick book |
| pavage {m} |
:: paving (paved surface, art of constructing such a surface) |
| pavane {mf} |
:: pavane |
| pavaner {vr} |
:: to strut one's stuff |
| pavement {m} |
:: paving |
| pavement {m} |
:: tiled floor |
| paver {v} |
:: to cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something similar |
| paver {v} |
:: (Canadian) 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| pavé tactile {m} |
:: touchpad (flat surface which is sensitive to touch) |
| pawnee {m} |
:: the Pawnee language |
| paxon {m} |
:: alternative form of pacson |
| payant {adj} |
:: paying, which pays |
| payant {adj} |
:: not free, that charges money |
| 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 |
| payer les pots cassés {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to pick up the pieces |
| 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} {f} {p} |
:: Pays de la Loire (region of France) |
| pays d'état {m} [historical] |
:: pays d'état |
| 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 |
| pb {abbr} [colloquial] |
:: Problem |
| pébioctet {m} |
:: pebibyte |
| pébrine {f} |
:: pébrine |
| pébroc {m} [colloquial, France] |
:: umbrella |
| pébroque {m} [colloquial, France] |
:: umbrella |
| PC {abbr} [journalism, in Canada] |
:: CP initialism of Presse canadienne (Canadian Press) |
| pécari {m} |
:: peccary (a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos) |
| PCC {initialism} [initialism] |
:: [Canada, politics] Parti conservateur du Canada - Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) |
| péché {m} [religion] |
:: sin |
| péché {m} |
:: sin |
| péché capital {m} |
:: deadly sin (any of the seven deadly sins) |
| pêche {f} [countable] |
:: peach |
| pêche {f} [uncountable] |
:: fishing, angling |
| pêche blanche {f} |
:: ice fishing |
| pêche à la mouche {f} |
:: fly fishing (form of angling) |
| pêcher {v} |
:: to fish |
| pêcher {m} |
:: peach tree |
| pécher {v} |
:: to sin |
| pécheresse {f} |
:: feminine noun of pécheur; sinner |
| pêcherie {f} |
:: fishery |
| pêche sous la glace {f} |
:: ice fishing |
| pêche sur glace {f} |
:: ice fishing |
| pécheur {adj} |
:: sinning; sinful |
| pécheur {m} |
:: sinner |
| pêcheur {m} |
:: fisher |
| pêcheuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of pêcheur |
| pécho {v} [slang] |
:: to nab, catch |
| pécho {v} [slang] |
:: to hook up with, get off with |
| 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) |
| pôchouse {f} |
:: alternative form of pauchouse |
| péché philosophique {m} |
:: sexual deviancy; sodomy |
| pécore {f} |
:: a small farm animal (not necessarily a sheep) |
| pécore {mf} |
:: blockhead (stupid person) |
| pécore {mf} |
:: peasant |
| péculat {m} |
:: peculation |
| péculativement {adv} |
:: peculatively |
| pécule {m} |
:: savings, nest egg |
| pécuniaire {adj} |
:: pecuniary, financial |
| pécuniairement {adv} |
:: financially, pecuniarily |
| PCV {initialism} |
:: (paiement contre vérification) reverse charge call (UK), collect call (US) |
| pédé {m} [vulgar, offensive] |
:: fag; queer (male homosexual) |
| PD {m} [vulgar, offensive] |
:: fag; queer (male homosexual) |
| pédagogie {f} |
:: pedagogy; education |
| pédagogie {f} |
:: learning |
| pédagogique {adj} |
:: pedagogic, pedagogical |
| pédagogique {adj} |
:: educational |
| pédagogique {adj} |
:: instructional |
| pædagogique {adj} |
:: obsolete form of pédagogique |
| pédagogiquement {adv} |
:: pedagogically |
| pædagogue {mf} |
:: obsolete form of pédagogue |
| pédagogue {mf} |
:: pedagogue; educator |
| pédagogue {mf} |
:: teacher |
| 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 |
| pédanterie {f} |
:: pedantry |
| pédantesque {adj} |
:: pedantic |
| pédantesquement {adv} |
:: pedantically |
| pédantisme {m} |
:: pedantry |
| pédantisme {m} |
:: pretentiousness |
| pæderastie {f} |
:: obsolete form of pédérastie |
| 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 |
| 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} |
| pédiatre {mf} |
:: pediatrician (physician who specialises in pediatrics) |
| pédiatrie {f} |
:: pediatrics |
| pædiatrie {f} |
:: obsolete form of pédiatrie |
| pédiatrique {adj} |
:: pediatric |
| pédicelle {f} |
:: pedicel |
| pédiculose {f} [pathology] |
:: pediculosis |
| pédicure {mf} |
:: chiropodist, podiatrist |
| 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) |
| pédogéochimique {adj} |
:: pedogeochemical |
| pédogéologique {adj} [geology] |
:: pedogeological |
| pédologie {f} |
:: pedology |
| pédologique {adj} |
:: pedologic, pedological |
| pédologiquement {adv} |
:: pedologically |
| pédonculé {adj} |
:: pedunculate |
| pédoncule {m} [anatomy, zoology] |
:: peduncle |
| pédoncule caudal {m} |
:: caudal peduncle |
| pédophile {adj} |
:: pedophiliac |
| pédophile {mf} |
:: pedophile, paedophile |
| pédophilie {f} |
:: pedophilia |
| pédopornographie {f} |
:: child pornography |
| pédopsychiatre {mf} |
:: child psychiatrist |
| 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 |
| pédéraste {m} |
:: pederast |
| pédéraste {m} [archaic] |
:: homosexual |
| pédérastie {f} |
:: pederasty |
| pédérastique {adj} |
:: pederastic |
| PDT {f} |
:: abbreviation of pomme de terre |
| peacekeeper {m} [Canada, law enforcement] |
:: peacekeeper [peace officer from an aboriginal Canadian community] |
| pearcéite {m} [mineralogy] |
:: 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 |
| 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 |
| peccadille {f} |
:: peccadillo (small sin or error) |
| Pecheur {prop} |
:: surname |
| pectique {adj} |
:: pectic |
| pectocellulosique {adj} |
:: pectocellulosic |
| pectolytique {adj} [biochemistry] |
:: pectolytic |
| pedante {f} |
:: obsolete spelling of pédante |
| pedzouille {m} |
:: A peasant, bumpkin, yokel |
| Peggy {prop} |
:: given name borrowed from English, popular in the 1970s |
| pegmatitique {adj} [mineralogy] |
:: pegmatitic |
| peignage {m} |
:: combing (of wool or other fibre) |
| peigne {m} |
:: comb (toothed implement) |
| 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 capitale {f} |
:: capital punishment (punishment by death) |
| peine de mort {f} |
:: capital punishment, death penalty |
| 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, color |
| peinturer {v} [Canada] |
:: to paint |
| peinturer {v} [France] |
:: to paint like a child, in a way lacking grace and dexterity |
| peinturlurer {v} |
:: to daub |
| pelé {adj} |
:: bare; (of animal) mangy |
| pelade {f} [pathology] |
:: alopecia |
| pelage {m} |
:: fur |
| peler {v} |
:: to peel |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| penaille {f} |
:: an assembly of monks |
| penaille {f} |
:: rags, tatters |
| penalty {m} [sports] |
:: penalty, penalty kick |
| 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, as |
| pendard {m} |
:: 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 |
| Penha {prop} {m} |
:: Penha (placename) |
| Penha {prop} {m} |
:: Penha (São Paulo, Brazil) |
| penné {adj} [botany] |
:: pinnate |
| penne {f} |
:: large feather |
| penne {f} |
:: penne (pasta) |
| pennine {m} [mineralogy] |
:: penninite (A double silicate of aluminium and magnesium) |
| pennon {m} |
:: pennon (triangular flag) |
| pennon {m} [nautical] |
:: pennant |
| pennon {m} |
:: A local urban milita 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 |
| pensable {adj} |
:: thinkable; considerable (worthy of being considered) |
| pensant {adj} |
:: thinking |
| pensée {f} |
:: thought |
| pensée {f} |
:: worldview |
| pensée {f} |
:: a pansy (plant) |
| pense-bête {m} [colloquial] |
:: reminder |
| penser {v} |
:: to think |
| 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) |
| pensionné {mf} |
:: pensioner |
| pensionnaire {mf} |
:: boarder; lodger |
| pensionnaire {mf} |
:: pensioner |
| pensionnaire {mf} |
:: boarder (someone in a boarding school) |
| pensionnat {m} |
:: boarding school |
| pensivement {adv} |
:: pensively, thoughtfully |
| pensum {m} [archaic] |
:: punishment (at school); lines (UK) |
| pensum {m} |
:: chore |
| pentacle {m} |
:: pentacle (star-shaped symbol) |
| pentacène {m} [organic compound] |
:: pentacene |
| pentadécane {m} [organic compound] |
:: pentadecane |
| pentadécanoïque {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: pentadecanoic |
| pentadécylique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: pentadecylic |
| pentaèdre {m} |
:: pentahedron |
| 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 |
| pentaène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: pentaene |
| pentanoïque {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: pentanoic |
| pentaoxyde {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: pentoxide |
| pentaquark {m} [physics] |
:: pentaquark |
| pentaérythritol {m} [organic compound] |
:: pentaerythritol |
| pentathlon {m} |
:: pentathlon (discipline made up of five events) |
| pentathlon des neiges {m} |
:: snow pentathlon (a five-leg five-sport race involving vélo, course, ski de fond, patin, raquette.) |
| 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 |
| people {m} [countable] |
:: A celebrity, a famous person |
| peps {m} |
:: pep (energy and enthusiasm) |
| pepsine {f} |
:: pepsin |
| pepsinogène {m} [biochemistry] |
:: pepsinogen |
| peptide {m} [biochemistry] |
:: peptide |
| peptidique {adj} |
:: peptidic |
| peptidoglycane {m} [biochemistry] |
:: peptidoglycan |
| peracétique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: peracetic |
| perçage {m} |
:: drilling |
| perçant {adj} |
:: piercing, shrill |
| perçant {adj} |
:: sharp (vision etc) |
| percale {f} |
:: percale |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 du temps {v} |
:: to waste time |
| 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 {phrase} |
:: lose one's head |
| perdre son latin {v} [idiomatic] |
:: 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) |
| perdu {adj} |
:: lost |
| perdurer {v} |
:: to continue to exist, to last, to endure |
| perestroïka {f} |
:: perestroika |
| 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 |
| perforé {adj} |
:: perforated, pierced, punched |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| perfusion {f} [medicine] |
:: perfusion, drip, intravenous injection |
| Pergé {prop} |
:: Perga (town in Turkey) |
| Pergame {prop} |
:: Pergamon |
| pergélisol {m} |
:: permafrost (permanently frozen ground) |
| perinæe {m} |
:: obsolete form of périnée |
| periodique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: periodic |
| perlé {adj} |
:: beaded |
| perlé {adj} |
:: pearl (attributive) |
| perlant {adj} |
:: slightly effervescent (especially of wine) |
| perlatif {m} [grammar] |
:: the perlative case |
| perlèche {f} |
:: angular cheilitis |
| perle {f} |
:: pearl |
| perler {vi} |
:: to bead (form into beads) |
| perlier {adj} |
:: pearl (attributive) |
| perlot {m} [colloquial, archaic] |
:: snout, baccy, tobacco |
| perluète {f} |
:: ampersand |
| perméabilité {f} |
:: permeability |
| perméable {adj} |
:: permeable |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: driving licence |
| permissif {adj} |
:: permissive, lenient |
| permission {f} |
:: permission |
| permissionnaire {mf} |
:: a soldier on leave |
| permittivité {f} [physics] |
:: permittivity |
| 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 |
| peroxyacétique {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: peroxyacetic |
| peroxydase {f} [enzyme] |
:: peroxidase |
| peroxyde {m} [chemistry] |
:: peroxide |
| perpendiculaire {adj} |
:: perpendicular (at or forming a right angle to) |
| perpendiculairement {adv} |
:: perpendicularly |
| 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 |
| perplexité {f} |
:: perplexity |
| perpète {f} |
:: life (prison 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 |
| perquisition {f} [legal] |
:: act of searching for someone or something |
| perquisitionner {vi} [legal] |
:: to carry out a search |
| Perrault {prop} |
:: surname |
| Perret {prop} |
:: surname |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| persécuter {v} |
:: to persecute |
| persécuter {v} [by extension] |
:: to annoy, to irritate |
| persécuteur {m} |
:: persecutor |
| persécution {f} |
:: persecution |
| persécutrice {f} |
:: persecutor (female) |
| Perse {prop} {f} |
:: Persia |
| Perse {mf} |
:: Persian person |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Perséphone {prop} {f} [Greek mythology] |
:: Persephone |
| perspicace {adj} |
:: perspicacious (showing keen insight) |
| perspicacité {f} |
:: insight, acumen, perspicacity |
| Persépolis {prop} |
:: Persepolis |
| persuader {v} |
:: to persuade |
| persuasif {adj} |
:: persuasive |
| persuasion {f} |
:: persuasion |
| persulfurique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: persulfuric / persulphuric |
| 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 |
| perte {f} |
:: loss |
| perte {f} |
:: ruin |
| pertechnétate {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: pertechnetate |
| 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 |
| pervenche {f} |
:: periwinkle |
| pervenche {f} |
:: (female) traffic warden, meter maid [US] |
| pervers {adj} |
:: perverse |
| perversement {adv} |
:: perversely; in a perverted fashion |
| perversité {f} |
:: perversity |
| perversité {f} |
:: depravity |
| pervertir {v} |
:: to worsen; to corrupt |
| perxénate {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: perxenate |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: brat |
| peste {f} |
:: pest |
| pester {v} |
:: to rant, curse, fulminate |
| pesticide {m} |
:: pesticide |
| pestiféré {adj} |
:: pestiferous |
| pestiféré {mf} |
:: plague victim |
| pestilentiel {adj} |
:: pestilent, foul |
| pet {m} [colloquial] |
:: fart |
| peta- {prefix} |
:: peta- |
| 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 |
| Petersbach {prop} |
:: A commune in the Bas-Rhin département, Alsace, France |
| petit {adj} |
:: small |
| petit {adj} |
:: little |
| 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 {prop} |
:: surname |
| petit ami {m} |
:: boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment) |
| Petit Chaperon rouge {prop} |
:: Little Red Riding Hood |
| petit coin {m} |
:: loo (toilet) |
| petit écran {m} |
:: small screen |
| petit déjeuner {m} |
:: breakfast (morning meal) |
| petite amie {f} |
:: girlfriend (girl/woman to whom one has a romantic attachment) |
| petite annonce {f} |
:: a single classified advertisement |
| 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 |
| petite culotte {f} |
:: [clothing] knickers |
| petite-fille {f} |
:: granddaughter (daughter of someone’s child) |
| petitement {adv} |
:: poorly |
| petitement {adv} |
:: meanly |
| petitement {adv} |
:: pettily |
| petite mort {f} [idiomatic, poetic] |
:: orgasm |
| 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) |
| petites lèvres {fp} |
:: labia minora |
| petite souris {f} |
:: tooth fairy |
| petitesse {f} |
:: smallness, littleness |
| petitesse {f} |
:: pettiness |
| petitesse {f} |
:: petiteness |
| petite sœur {f} |
:: little sister |
| petite sœur {f} [slang] |
:: another drink like the one before; the same again |
| petite vérole {f} [archaic] |
:: smallpox |
| petit filet {m} [football] |
:: side-netting |
| petit-fils {m} |
:: grandson |
| petit four {m} |
:: petit four |
| petitissime {adj} |
:: very small, very little, or both |
| Petitjean {prop} |
:: surname (Little John) |
| petit jour {m} |
:: dawn, daybreak |
| petit juif {m} |
:: funny bone |
| petit-lait {m} |
:: whey |
| petit mal {m} [medicine] |
:: petit mal |
| petit matin {m} |
:: early morning, small hours, first thing |
| petit-maître {m} [archaic] |
:: dandy, coxcomb |
| petit-neveu {m} |
:: grandnephew (grandson of a sibling) |
| petit panda {m} |
:: red panda (Ailurus fulgens) |
| petit à petit {adv} |
:: little by little, bit by bit |
| petit pois {m} |
:: pea (the vegetable) |
| petit pont {m} [soccer] |
:: nutmeg |
| petits récits {n} |
:: Small narratives, often first-person |
| peton {m} [colloquial] |
:: foot |
| peu {adv} |
:: not very; little; not much |
| peu {m} |
:: few |
| peu {m} |
:: little |
| Peugeot {prop} |
:: surname, especially that of the dynastic car-manufacturing family |
| Peuhl {m} |
:: alternative spelling of Peul |
| Peuhle {f} |
:: feminine singular of Peuhl |
| 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 |
| peu à peu {adv} |
:: bit by bit, little by little |
| peuplé {adj} |
:: populated; inhabited |
| peuplade {f} |
:: tribe, people |
| peuple {m} |
:: people (in the sense of nationality or ethnic group) |
| 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 |
| peureusement {adv} |
:: fearfully |
| peureux {adj} |
:: fearful |
| peut-être {adv} |
:: maybe, perhaps |
| p. ex. {adv} |
:: e.g. |
| pff {interj} |
:: pff |
| pfff {interj} |
:: alternative spelling of pff |
| PFK {prop} {m} |
:: KFC (chain of fast-food chicken restaurants) |
| pfut {interj} [colloquial] |
:: Expressing disinterest |
| Pégase {prop} {m} |
:: Pegasus (mythical winged horse) |
| Pégase {prop} {m} |
:: Pegasus (constellation) |
| PGCD {m} [mathematics] |
:: initialism of plus grand commun dénominateur: gcd |
| pègre {f} |
:: underworld |
| phacochère {m} |
:: warthog |
| phagédénique {adj} |
:: gangrenous |
| phage {m} |
:: synonym of bactériophage |
| -phage {suffix} |
:: -phage |
| phagnalon {m} |
:: phagnalon |
| phagocytage {m} [biology] |
:: phagocytosis |
| phagocytage {m} |
:: swallowing up |
| phagocyter {vt} [biology] |
:: to phagocytize |
| phagocyter {vt} |
:: to swallow up |
| phalange {f} [anatomy] |
:: phalanx |
| phalange {f} |
:: phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.) |
| phalangiste {m} |
:: scarab beetle |
| phalangiste {m} |
:: Falangist |
| phalangère {f} |
:: Any plant of the genus Anthericum |
| phalangère {f} |
:: spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) |
| phalanstère {m} |
:: phalanstery |
| phalarope {m} |
:: phalarope |
| phallique {adj} |
:: phallic |
| phalliquement {adv} |
:: phallically |
| phallocentrique {adj} |
:: phallocentric |
| phallocrate {mf} |
:: male chauvinist |
| phallocratie {f} |
:: male chauvinism |
| phalloïdine {f} |
:: phalloidin |
| phalène {mf} |
:: moth (especially a geometrid moth) |
| phanère {m} [chiefly in the plural] |
:: dander (skin flakes etc) |
| 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} [figuratively] |
:: beacon, luminary |
| phare {m} [nautical] |
:: the set of sails on the mast |
| phare antibrouillard {m} [automotive] |
:: fog light, fog lamp |
| pharisien {m} |
:: 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 |
| pharmacologie {f} |
:: pharmacology |
| pharmacologique {adj} |
:: pharmacologic, pharmacological |
| 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 |
| phase {f} |
:: phase |
| phase de poule {f} [sports] |
:: group stage |
| phase éruptive {f} [geology] |
:: eruptive phase |
| phasme {m} |
:: stick insect |
| phatique {adj} |
:: phatic (more polite than meaningful) |
| phatiquement {adv} |
:: phatically |
| phaéton {m} |
:: phaeton |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Philémon {prop} |
:: Philemon |
| philo {m} [colloquial] |
:: philosophy |
| 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 |
| phlegmatique {adj} |
:: phlegmatic |
| phlegmatiquement {adv} |
:: phlegmatically |
| phlegme {m} [archaic, obsolete] |
:: alternative spelling of flegme |
| Phlégon {prop} |
:: Phlegon |
| Phlégéthon {prop} {m} |
:: Phlegethon |
| phlogistiqué {adj} |
:: phlogisticated |
| phlogistique {m} [obsolete, chemsitry] |
:: phlogiston |
| phlogistique {adj} [obsolete, chemistry] |
:: phlogistic |
| phlogistiquer {v} |
:: To phlogisticate |
| phénalène {m} [organic compound] |
:: phenalene |
| phénanthrène {m} [organic compound] |
:: phenanthrene |
| phénantroline {f} [organic compound] |
:: phenanthroline |
| Phénicie {prop} |
:: Phoenicia |
| Phœnicie {prop} {f} |
:: obsolete form of Phénicie |
| phénicien {m} |
:: Phoenician language |
| phénicien {adj} |
:: Phoenician |
| phœnicien {adj} |
:: obsolete form of phénicien |
| phœnicien {m} |
:: obsolete form of phénicien |
| Phénicien {m} |
:: Phoenician person |
| Phœnicien {m} |
:: obsolete form of Phénicien |
| Phénicienne {f} |
:: feminine noun of Phénicien |
| Phœnicienne {f} |
:: feminine singular of Phœnicien |
| phénix {m} [mythology] |
:: phoenix |
| phœnix {m} |
:: alternative form of phénix |
| 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 |
| phænomene {m} |
:: obsolete form of phénomène |
| 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 |
| phénylcétonurie {f} [pathology] |
:: phenylketonuria |
| phényle {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: phenyl |
| phénylhydrazine {f} [organic compound] |
:: phenylhydrazine |
| phénylène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: phenylene |
| phobie {f} |
:: phobia |
| -phobie {suffix} |
:: -phobia |
| phocéen {adj} |
:: Phocean |
| phocéen {adj} |
:: Marseillais, from Marseille |
| phéochromocytome {m} [pathology] |
:: pheochromocytoma |
| phoeniciculteur {m} |
:: date palm farmer |
| phoeniciculteuse {f} |
:: feminine singular of phoeniciculteur |
| phoeniciculture {f} |
:: date palm cultivation |
| phonatoire {adj} |
:: phonatory |
| phone {m} |
:: phon (a unit of apparent loudness) |
| phone {m} [linguistics] |
:: phone |
| -phone {suffix} |
:: speaker of a specific language |
| -phone {suffix} |
:: something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone |
| phoner {v} |
:: to ring, call, phone |
| phonique {adj} |
:: phonic |
| phoniquement {adv} |
:: phonically |
| phonème {m} [linguistics] |
:: phoneme |
| phonémique {adj} |
:: phonemic (relating to phonemes) |
| phonémique {f} |
:: phonemics |
| phonographe {m} |
:: phonograph, gramophone (old-fashioned) |
| phonographié {adj} |
:: recorded (on a gramophone record) |
| phonographique {adj} |
:: phonographic |
| phonologie {f} [linguistics] |
:: phonology |
| phonologique {adj} |
:: phonological |
| phonologiquement {adv} |
:: phonologically |
| phonéticien {m} |
:: phonetician |
| phonéticienne {f} |
:: feminine noun of phonéticien |
| phonétique {adj} |
:: phonetic |
| phonétique {f} [linguistics] |
:: phonetics |
| phonétiquement {adv} |
:: phonetically |
| 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 |
| phosphaté {adj} |
:: phosphate-enriched |
| phosphate {m} |
:: phosphate |
| 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 |
| phosphatémie {f} [pathology] |
:: phosphatemia |
| phosphocaséinate {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: phosphocaseinate |
| phosphoglycéride {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: phosphoglyceride |
| phosphogypse {m} |
:: phosphogypsum |
| phospholipide {m} |
:: phospholipid |
| phosphoré {adj} |
:: phosphorous (containing phosphorus) |
| phosphoré {adj} |
:: phosphureted |
| phosphore {m} |
:: phosphorus [element] |
| phosphorescent {adj} |
:: phosphorescent |
| phosphoreux {adj} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: phosphorous |
| phosphorique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: phosphoric |
| phosphoryle {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: phosphoryl |
| phosphoryler {v} |
:: To phosphorylate |
| phosphépine {m} [organic compound] |
:: phosphepine |
| phosphure {m} |
:: phosphide |
| photique {adj} |
:: photic |
| photo {f} |
:: photo |
| photo- {prefix} |
:: photo- (relating to to light) |
| photo- {prefix} |
:: photo- (relating to to photography) |
| photocellule {f} |
:: photocell (photoelectric cell) |
| photochimie {f} [chemistry] |
:: photochemistry |
| photochimique {adj} |
:: photochemical |
| photochimiquement {adv} |
:: photochemically |
| photoconducteur {m} [physics] |
:: photoconductor |
| photoconducteur {adj} [physics] |
:: photoconductive |
| 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 |
| photoglyptie {f} |
:: Woodburytype |
| photogénique {adj} |
:: photogenic (looking good when photographed) |
| 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 |
| photojournaliste {mf} |
:: photojournalist |
| photoélectrique {adj} [physics] |
:: photoelectric |
| photolithographie {f} |
:: photolithography |
| photoluminescent {adj} |
:: photoluminescent |
| photomacrographie {f} |
:: photomacrography |
| photomaton {m} |
:: photo booth |
| photomicrographie {f} |
:: photomicrography |
| photomètre {m} |
:: photometer |
| photométrie {f} |
:: photometry |
| photométrique {adj} |
:: photometric |
| photomultiplicateur {m} |
:: photomultiplier |
| photon {m} [particle] |
:: photon |
| photonique {adj} [physics] |
:: photonic |
| photophobie {f} |
:: photophobia (excessive sensitivity to light) |
| photophore {m} [biology] |
:: photophore |
| 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 |
| photothèque {f} |
:: photo library |
| photothérapie {f} |
:: phototherapy |
| photovoltaïque {adj} |
:: photovoltaic |
| phrasé {m} |
:: phrasing |
| phrase {f} |
:: (false friend) sentence |
| phraser {v} |
:: to phrase |
| phraser {v} [music] |
:: to phrase |
| phraseur {m} |
:: windbag (excessive talker) |
| phraseuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of phraseur |
| phraséologie {f} |
:: phraseology |
| phréatique {adj} |
:: phreatic |
| phrénologie {f} |
:: phrenology |
| phrénologique {adj} |
:: phrenological |
| phrénologiquement {adv} |
:: phrenologically |
| phrénologue {m} |
:: phrenologist |
| phéromonal {adj} |
:: pheromonal |
| phéromonalement {adv} |
:: pheromonally |
| phéromone {f} |
:: pheromone |
| Phrygie {prop} |
:: Phrygia |
| phrygien {adj} |
:: Phrygian |
| phtalate {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: phthalate |
| phtalique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: phthalic |
| phthisique {adj} |
:: phthisic |
| phtisie {f} [pathology] |
:: phthisis, consumption |
| phtisique {adj} [medicine, archaic] |
:: phthisical |
| phycologie {f} |
:: phycology (the study of algae) |
| phycotoxine {f} |
:: phycotoxin |
| phylactère {m} |
:: phylactery |
| phylactère {m} |
:: speech bubble, thought bubble |
| phyllotrachée {f} [arachnology] |
:: book lung |
| phylloxéra {m} |
:: phylloxera |
| phylogenèse {f} |
:: phylogenesis |
| phylogénie {f} |
:: phylogeny |
| phylogénique {adj} |
:: phylogenic |
| phylogénétique {adj} |
:: phylogenetic |
| phylogénétiquement {adv} |
:: phylogenetically |
| 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 |
| physicochimique {adj} |
:: alternative form of physico-chimique |
| physico-chimique {adj} [physics, chemistry] |
:: physicochemical |
| 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 |
| phytochimie {f} [chemistry] |
:: phytochemistry |
| phytochimique {adj} [chemistry] |
:: phytochemical |
| phytochélatine {f} [protein] |
:: phytochelatin |
| phytolaque {f} |
:: pokeweed or similar plant of the genus Phytolacca |
| phytologie {f} |
:: phytology |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: piano |
| piano droit {m} |
:: upright 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) |
| pianoter {v} |
:: to tap (hit lightly) |
| pianoter {v} [computing] |
:: to type (use a computer keyboard) |
| piasse {f} [Quebec, colloquial] |
:: alternative spelling of piastre |
| piastre {f} [historical] |
:: piastre (one of several historical units of currency) |
| piastre {f} [Quebec, Louisiana, 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 |
| picaillon {m} [colloquial, especially in plural] |
:: cash, money |
| 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} |
:: Picaridine |
| 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 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 |
| pic à glace {m} |
:: icepick |
| 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 |
| picène {m} [organic compound] |
:: picene |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| piédestal {m} |
:: pedestal |
| pie {f} |
:: magpie |
| Pie {prop} |
:: Pius |
| 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 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) |
| piedmontite {f} |
:: alternative form of piémontite |
| pied noir {m} |
:: pied noir |
| pieds d'argile {mp} [plurale tantum] |
:: feet of clay |
| pied-à-terre {m} |
:: pied-à-terre |
| piercing {m} |
:: a piercing |
| pierrade {f} |
:: A dish (a form of barbecue) in which thin slices of meat etc 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 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 |
| Pierrot {prop} {m} |
:: Diminutive of Pierre (Peter) |
| Pierrot {prop} {m} |
:: A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pigé {interj} |
:: capisce? |
| pige {f} |
:: measure |
| pige {f} [colloquial] |
:: year (of age) |
| piège {m} |
:: trap, snare, booby trap |
| piège {m} |
:: pitfall |
| piégeage {m} |
:: trapping |
| 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 |
| piéger {v} |
:: to trap (catch in a trap) |
| piégeux {adj} |
:: tricky |
| piégeux {adj} |
:: dangerous |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| pimbêche {f} |
:: minx (impertinent woman) |
| piment {m} [cooking] |
:: spice |
| piment {m} |
:: chili, chili pepper |
| piment {m} [figuratively] |
:: spice (vigour) |
| pimenter {v} [cooking] |
:: to spice, to season with spices |
| pimenter {v} [figuratively] |
:: to spice up, to make more extravagant or exotic |
| piémont {m} |
:: foothill |
| piémontais {adj} |
:: Piedmontese (related to Piedmont) |
| Piémontais {m} |
:: a Piedmontese person |
| Piémontaise {f} |
:: feminine noun of Piémontais |
| piémontite {f} [mineralogy] |
:: piemontite |
| pimpant {adj} |
:: spruce, dapper, dashing |
| pimprelocher {vt} |
:: to style hair in a ridiculous manner |
| 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 |
| pinéal {m} |
:: pineal |
| 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 |
| pincée {f} |
:: a pinch, a tiny amount |
| pinceau {m} |
:: paintbrush |
| pince-fesses {m} [dated, slang] |
:: dance, hop |
| pince à linge {f} |
:: clothes peg |
| pincement {m} |
:: pang, twinge |
| pince-nez {m} |
:: pince-nez |
| pince à épiler {f} |
:: tweezers |
| pincer {v} |
:: to pinch (skin) |
| pincer {v} |
:: 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) |
| pinède {f} |
:: pine wood or forest |
| pine {f} [slang] |
:: nob, penis |
| pineau {m} |
:: pineau |
| 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 |
| pinène {m} [organic compound] |
:: pinene |
| pinocchioter dans le slibard {v} [slang] |
:: to have an unwanted erection visible through one's pants |
| pinocumettable {adj} [vulgar] |
:: fuckable, shaggable |
| pinçon {m} |
:: pinch, nip (mark on the skin) |
| Pinot {prop} |
:: surname |
| pinotte {f} [Québec] |
:: peanut, goober (a legume resembling a nut) |
| pinson {m} |
:: a finch |
| Pinsonneault {prop} |
:: surname |
| pintade {f} |
:: guinea fowl |
| pinte {f} [Canada] |
:: a quart |
| pinte {f} [Canada, slang] |
:: a litre |
| pinte {f} [France] |
:: a pint |
| pinte {f} [France] |
:: A 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], 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} [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 |
| 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] |
:: fellatio |
| pipe {m} |
:: the pipe symbol (|) |
| pipeau {m} [musical instruments] |
:: pipe |
| pipeau {m} |
:: reed |
| pipelette {f} |
:: chatterbox |
| pipeline {m} |
:: oil pipeline |
| pipe-line {m} |
:: alternative spelling of pipeline |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| piqûre {f} |
:: injection |
| piqûre {f} |
:: sting |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Piérie {prop} {f} |
:: Pieria |
| piriforme {adj} |
:: pyriform |
| pirogue {m} |
:: pirogue made by hollowing a log |
| pirogue {m} |
:: any canoe |
| pirojki {m} |
:: pirozhki |
| piroplasme {m} [epidemiology] |
:: piroplasma |
| 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, colloquial] |
:: and, besides |
| pisé {m} |
:: adobe |
| pis-aller {m} |
:: a make-do, a less than optimal solution, a workaround |
| 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) |
| Pisidie {prop} |
:: Pisidia |
| pissaladière {f} |
:: pissaladière (pizza-like pie from southern France) |
| pissant {adj} [Quebec, colloquial] |
:: funny |
| Pissarro {prop} |
:: surname |
| 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 |
| pissoir {m} [slang] |
:: bog, john |
| pissotière {f} |
:: public urinal |
| pistache {f} |
:: pistachio (nut) |
| 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 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 l'air {m} |
:: air pistol |
| pistolet-mitrailleur {m} |
:: submachine gun |
| piston {m} |
:: piston |
| piston {m} [colloquial] |
:: contact, connection |
| pistonner {vt} |
:: to pull strings (apply influence) |
| piété {f} |
:: piety (the condition and quality of being pious) |
| pitance {f} |
:: pittance |
| pitbull {m} |
:: pitbull /pit bull/ |
| pitch {m} |
:: pitch (sales patter, inclination) |
| pitchpin {m} |
:: pitch pine |
| piteusement {adv} |
:: piteously |
| piteusement {adv} |
:: miserably |
| piteux {adj} |
:: pitiful |
| piteux {adj} |
:: rundown |
| piteux {adj} |
:: piteous |
| pitié {f} |
:: pity, mercy |
| 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) |
| piton {m} |
:: nail (metal object) |
| piton {m} |
:: spike, pick (especially for mountaineering) |
| piéton {m} |
:: pedestrian |
| piétonne {f} |
:: feminine noun of piéton |
| pitonner {v} |
:: to piton |
| piétonner {v} |
:: To walk (go on foot) |
| piétonnier {adj} |
:: pedestrianized / pedestrianised |
| 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 |
| pitoyablement {adv} |
:: pitifully |
| pitoyablement {adv} |
:: pathetically |
| piètre {adj} |
:: poor; lousy (of low quality) |
| piètre {adj} [archaic] |
:: pitiful |
| pitre {m} |
:: clown, buffoon |
| piètrement {adv} |
:: poorly |
| pitrerie {f} |
:: tomfoolery |
| pitête {adv} [rare] |
:: alternative spelling of peut-être |
| pittoresque {adj} |
:: picturesque |
| pittoresque {mf} |
:: Someone or something that is picturesque |
| pittoresquement {adv} |
:: picturesquely |
| pittospore {m} |
:: pittosporum |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| piézoélectricité {f} |
:: piezoelectricity (capacity of crystal to generate electricity) |
| piézoélectrique {adj} |
:: piezoelectric |
| piézométrique {adj} |
:: piezometric |
| piézophile {mf} |
:: piezophile |
| piézophile {adj} |
:: piezophilic |
| pizza {f} |
:: pizza |
| pizzeria {f} |
:: pizzeria |
| pizzéria {f} |
:: pizzeria |
| péjoratif {adj} |
:: pejorative |
| péjorativement {adv} |
:: pejoratively |
| pk {abbr} [Internet slang] |
:: why |
| pékan {m} |
:: fisher (mammal) |
| pékin {m} [textiles] |
:: Pekin |
| 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 |
| pkoi {abbr} [Internet slang, texting] |
:: pourquoi |
| plaçable {adj} |
:: placeable; that can be put or placed |
| plaçage {m} |
:: plaçage |
| placage {m} |
:: veneer (thin covering of fine wood) |
| placage {m} [sports] |
:: tackle |
| 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 |
| 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] |
:: to chat, chatter |
| plafond {m} |
:: ceiling |
| plafonnement {m} |
:: cap, capping, setting an upper limit |
| plafonner {v} |
:: to cap (put an upper limit on) |
| plafonner {v} |
:: to reach one's upper limit |
| plafonnier {m} |
:: light (ceiling light) |
| plage {f} |
:: beach |
| plage {f} [mathematics] |
:: range |
| plagiaire {mf} |
:: plagiarist |
| plagiat {m} |
:: plagiarism |
| pélagien {adj} |
:: Pelagian |
| plagier {v} |
:: to plagiarize |
| pélagique {adj} |
:: pelagic |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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} [cinema] |
:: shot |
| 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} |
:: plank (very thin person) |
| planche à beurre {f} |
:: butter paddle |
| planche à laver {f} [musical instruments] |
:: washboard |
| planche à pain {f} |
:: breadboard |
| plancher {m} |
:: floor |
| plancher {m} |
:: lower limit |
| plancher {m} [anatomy] |
:: floor |
| plancher {vi} |
:: to talk |
| planche à repasser {f} |
:: ironing board |
| planche à roulettes {f} |
:: skateboard |
| Planchet {prop} [rare] |
:: given name |
| planchette {f} |
:: small plank |
| planchette à pince {f} |
:: clipboard |
| planchiste {mf} |
:: boarder |
| planchiste {mf} |
:: snowboarder |
| planchiste {mf} |
:: skateboarder |
| plan comptable {m} |
:: chart of accounts |
| plancton {m} [biology] |
:: plankton |
| planctonique {adj} |
:: planktonic |
| plan cul {m} [vulgar] |
:: fuck buddy, friend with benefits (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 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'épargne {m} |
:: savings plan |
| 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 |
| 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} |
:: planning |
| plançon {m} |
:: A medieval French infantry weapon, primarily used for smashing and thrusting |
| Plançon {prop} |
:: surname |
| planquer {v} [colloquial] |
:: to hide |
| planquer {v} [colloquial] |
:: to spy, to snoop |
| plan rapproché {m} [photography, film] |
:: close-up |
| planère {f} |
:: A form of Siberian elm (Planera crenata) |
| 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 |
| planétaire {adj} |
:: planetary |
| planétaire {m} [astronomy] |
:: orrery |
| planétaire {m} [automobile] |
:: epicyclic gear, planetary gear |
| plantaire {adj} [anatomy] |
:: plantar |
| planétarium {m} |
:: planetarium |
| plantation {f} |
:: planting |
| plantation {f} |
:: plantation |
| planète {f} |
:: planet |
| plante {f} |
:: plant |
| plante {f} |
:: sole of the foot |
| planète naine {f} |
:: dwarf planet |
| planter {vt} |
:: to plant |
| planter {vt} |
:: to drive in (a nail, stake etc.) |
| planter {vt} |
:: to pitch (a tent) |
| planter {vi} [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) |
| planétoïde {m} |
:: planetoid |
| planétoide {m} [astronomy] |
:: A planetoid, an asteroid large enough to be seen as a small planet |
| planétologie {f} |
:: planetology |
| planétologue {mf} |
:: planetologist |
| planton {m} |
:: orderly |
| planétésimal {m} [astronomy] |
:: planetesimal |
| 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'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 |
| pélargonique {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: pelargonic |
| pélargonium {m} |
:: pelargonium (flower of the genus Pelargonium) |
| plasmateur {m} |
:: a creator, fashioner |
| plasmatique {adj} |
:: plasma (attributive), plasmatic |
| plasmide {m} |
:: plasmid (circle of double-stranded DNA that is separate from the chromosomes) |
| plasmique {adj} |
:: plasmic |
| plasmode {m} |
:: plasmodium |
| plasmodesme {m} |
:: plasmodesma |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| platée {f} |
:: plateful |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| platine {m} |
:: platinum (metal) |
| platinectomie {f} [surgery] |
:: platinectomy, platinotomy |
| platiner {v} |
:: to platinize |
| 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 |
| platonisme {m} |
:: Platonism |
| plat principal {m} |
:: main course |
| platyphylle {adj} |
:: broadleaf |
| plausibilité {f} |
:: plausibility |
| plausible {adj} |
:: plausible |
| Plaute {prop} {m} |
:: Plautus |
| playback {m} |
:: lip sync |
| playboy {m} |
:: alternative spelling of play-boy |
| play-boy {m} |
:: playboy (person) |
| playlist {f} |
:: playlist |
| 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 |
| PLC {initialism} [initialism] |
:: [Canada, politics] Parti libéral du Canada - Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) |
| pôle {m} [geography, astronomy, science] |
:: pole |
| pôle {m} [figuratively] |
:: centre, hub |
| pâle {adj} |
:: pale (light in color) |
| pâle {adj} |
:: pale (lacking brightness) |
| pâle {adj} |
:: pale (dull) |
| plectre {m} |
:: plectrum, pick (for strumming string instruments) |
| 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 |
| pleine lune {f} |
:: full moon |
| pleinement {adv} |
:: completely, all over |
| plein-emploi {m} |
:: full employment |
| plein fouet {m} |
:: A direct or harsh hit |
| plein à ras bord {adj} |
:: full to the brim |
| pâlement {adv} |
:: palely, pallidly |
| pêle-mêle {adv} |
:: any old how, at random, chaotically, pell-mell |
| pêle-mêle {m} |
:: disorder, confusion |
| pêle-mêle {m} |
:: multiple photo frame |
| 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) |
| pèlerin {m} |
:: pilgrim |
| pèlerinage {m} |
:: pilgrimage (religious journey, or one to a sacred place) |
| pèlerine {f} |
:: feminine noun of pèlerin |
| pèlerine {f} |
:: cape |
| pélerine {f} |
:: cape |
| pèleriner {v} |
:: to go on a pilgrimage |
| péleriner {v} |
:: alternative spelling of pèleriner |
| pôle sud {m} |
:: south pole (of a magnet) |
| pôle Sud {m} |
:: south pole (the southernmost point on a celestial body) |
| pâleur {f} |
:: pallor; paleness |
| pleur {m} |
:: cry (action of producing tear) |
| pleurard {m} |
:: crybaby |
| pleurard {adj} |
:: crying |
| pleurer {vi} |
:: to cry, to weep |
| pleurer {vt} |
:: to mourn |
| pleurer comme une madeleine {v} [simile] |
:: To bawl, especially exaggeratedly; to cry one's eyes out; to cry like a baby |
| pleureur {m} |
:: crier; weeper one who cries or weeps |
| pleureur {m} |
:: crybaby |
| pleureur {adj} |
:: weeping |
| pleureuse {f} |
:: professional mourner |
| pleurnichard {m} |
:: crybaby |
| 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 |
| pleurésie {f} [pathology] |
:: pleurisy |
| pleutre {m} |
:: coward |
| pleutre {adj} |
:: 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 comme vache qui pisse {v} [simile] |
:: to rain cats and dogs |
| pleuvoir des cordes {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to rain heavily; to rain cats and dogs |
| pleuvoir des hallebardes {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to rain heavily; to rain cats and dogs |
| pleuvoir à verse {v} [idiomatic] |
:: to rain heavily |
| plexiglas {m} |
:: Plexiglas |
| plexus {m} |
:: plexus |
| pli {m} |
:: fold |
| pli {m} |
:: pleat |
| pli {m} |
:: letter |
| pli {m} [card games] |
:: trick |
| plié {adj} |
:: in stitches |
| pliable {adj} |
:: pliable |
| pléiade {f} |
:: host (large group) |
| pliage {m} |
:: folding (the act of folding something) |
| pliant {adj} |
:: pliant |
| pélican {m} |
:: pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae) |
| 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 |
| pléiotropique {adj} |
:: pleiotropic |
| pâlir {v} |
:: to pale; to fade (lose color) |
| pâlir {v} |
:: to fade (lose glory or power) |
| 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 |
| pléistocène {adj} |
:: Pleistocene |
| Pléistocène {prop} {m} |
:: Pleistocene period |
| pliure {f} |
:: a folding |
| plénier {adj} |
:: complete, entire |
| plénier {adj} |
:: plenary |
| plénipotentiaire {adj} |
:: plenipotentiary |
| plénipotentiaire {mf} |
:: plenipotentiary (a person invested with supreme authority) |
| plénitude {f} |
:: fullness, plenitude |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| plombier {m} |
:: plumber (profession) |
| plombique {adj} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: plumbic |
| plombémie {f} [pathology] |
:: The presence of lead in the blood |
| plomburie {f} |
:: lead poisoning |
| pléonasme {m} [linguistics] |
:: pleonasm, redundancy |
| pléonasme {m} |
:: insults; hurtful remarks |
| pléonaste {m} [mineralogy] |
:: pleonaste |
| pléonastique {adj} |
:: pleonastic |
| plonge {f} [France, colloquial] |
:: the work of washing dishes |
| plongée {f} |
:: dive |
| plongeant {adj} |
:: plunging (neckline etc) |
| 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} |
:: A diver: one who dives for pearls, coral, sponges, sunken items, and so on |
| plongeur {m} |
:: A diver: one who practices the sport of diving |
| plongeur {m} |
:: A dishwasher: a person who washes dishes in a restaurant |
| plongeuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of plongeur |
| pélopium {m} [obsolete] |
:: A metallic element subsequently shown to be technetium |
| Péloponnèse {prop} {m} |
:: Peloponnese (region of Greece) |
| plosif {adj} |
:: plosive |
| plosion {f} [phonetics] |
:: plosion |
| plosive {f} |
:: plosive |
| pâlot {adj} |
:: pale, peaky |
| plotte {f} [Quebec, vulgar, slang] |
:: a vulva, a vagina |
| plotte {f} [Louisiana, ] |
:: a ball |
| plouc {m} |
:: hick, country bumpkin |
| 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 |
| PLQ {initialism} [Canada, politics] |
:: initialism of Parti libéral du Québec - Liberal Party of Quebec (LPQ) |
| P.L.Q. {abbr} |
:: alternative form of PLQ |
| plérôme {m} [gnosticism] |
:: pleroma |
| pléthore {f} |
:: plethora |
| pléthorique {adj} [medical] |
:: plethoric |
| pléthorique {adj} |
:: overloaded, overabundant |
| pléthoriquement {adv} |
:: plethorically |
| pléthoriquement {adv} |
:: overabundantly |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| plumage {m} |
:: plumage, a bird's feathers |
| 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 |
| pluridisciplinaire {adj} |
:: multidisciplinary |
| pluridisciplinairement {adv} |
:: multidisciplinarily; in a multidisciplinary way |
| pluridisciplinarité {f} |
:: multidisciplinarity |
| pluriel {m} |
:: plural |
| pluriel {adj} |
:: plural |
| pluriel brisé {m} [linguistics] |
:: broken plural |
| pluriellement {adv} |
:: plurally; in the plural |
| pluriethnique {adj} |
:: multiethnic |
| plurilingue {adj} |
:: multilingual, plurilingual |
| plurilinguisme {m} |
:: multilingualism |
| pluripartisme {m} |
:: multipartyism |
| pluripartiste {adj} |
:: multiparty |
| 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] |
:: 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) |
| plusieurs {adj} |
:: several, many, a lot |
| plus ou moins {adv} |
:: more or less (approximately) |
| 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} |
:: Plutarch (Greek historian) |
| Pluton {prop} {m} |
:: Pluto (dwarf planet) |
| Pluton {prop} {m} |
:: Pluto (god) |
| plutonien {adj} |
:: Plutonian |
| plutonique {adj} [geology] |
:: 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 |
| pluviosité {f} |
:: (amount of) rainfall |
| pluviôse {m} [historical] |
:: Pluviôse (the fifth month of the French Republican Calendar) |
| plèvre {f} [anatomy] |
:: pleura |
| pélycosaure {m} |
:: pelycosaur |
| PM {abbr} |
:: post meridiem |
| P.M. {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) |
| pâmer {vr} [literary, dated] |
:: to swoon |
| pâmer {vr} [colloquial] |
:: to be in raptures (devant over something) |
| pâmer {vr} [colloquial] |
:: to be overcome (de with) |
| pâmoison {f} |
:: swoon |
| 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 |
| pénal {adj} |
:: penal, criminal (of, or relating to crimes) |
| pœnal {adj} |
:: obsolete form of pénal |
| 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) |
| pénalty {m} [sports] |
:: alternative spelling of penalty |
| pénard {adj} |
:: alternative form of peinard |
| pénates {mp} [historical] |
:: household gods, penates |
| pénates {mp} [colloquial] |
:: home |
| PNC {mf} |
:: Flight attendant, cabin crew |
| pénectomie {f} [surgery] |
:: penectomy |
| pneu {m} |
:: tyre, tire |
| pneu de secours {m} |
:: spare tyre |
| pneumatique {adj} |
:: pneumatic |
| pneumatique {m} [rare] |
:: tyre (wheel covering) |
| pneumocoque {m} |
:: pneumococcus |
| pneumographie {f} |
:: pneumography |
| pneumologie {f} |
:: pulmonology |
| pneumologue {mf} |
:: pneumologist |
| pneumonie {f} [pathology] |
:: pneumonia |
| pneumonique {adj} |
:: pneumonic |
| pneumopathie {f} |
:: pneumonia |
| 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 |
| pénicilline {f} |
:: penicillin |
| pnictogène {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: pnictogen |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pénologie {f} |
:: penology |
| pénombre {f} |
:: penumbra |
| pénombre {f} |
:: half-light, twilight |
| pénéplaine {f} [geomorphology] |
:: peneplain |
| pénétrabilité {f} |
:: penetrability |
| pénétrable {adj} |
:: penetrable |
| pénétrant {adj} |
:: penetrant, penetrating |
| pénétratif {adj} |
:: penetrative |
| pénétration {f} |
:: penetration |
| 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 |
| pénultième {adj} |
:: penultimate |
| pénurie {f} |
:: dearth, lack, shortage; penury |
| 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) |
| pochtron {m} [slang, pejorative] |
:: alternative form of pochetron |
| pochtronne {f} |
:: feminine noun of pochtron |
| pococurante {mf} |
:: one who is apathetic |
| 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 |
| podorythmie {f} [Canada] |
:: The tapping of one's feet in time to music |
| podotactile {adj} |
:: pedotactile |
| poecilitique {adj} [geology] |
:: poikilitic |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec] |
:: to catch |
| pogner {vt} [Quebec] |
:: to grab, to grasp |
| pogner {v} [Quebec, 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) |
| pognon {m} [colloquial] |
:: dough, dosh, bread |
| pogo {m} [Canada, food, colloquial] |
:: pogo (corndog on a stick) |
| pogrom {m} |
:: pogrom |
| poichichade {f} |
:: A traditional Provençal spreadable dish consisting of chickpeas, garlic and olive oil |
| poids {m} |
:: weight |
| poids lourd {m} |
:: HGV; heavy goods vehicle |
| poids lourd {m} |
:: heavyweight (sports category) |
| poignamment {adv} |
:: poignantly |
| poignant {adj} |
:: poignant |
| poignard {m} |
:: dagger |
| poignardage {m} [rare] |
:: stabbing |
| poignarder {v} |
:: to stab; to knife |
| 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 |
| poigne {f} |
:: grip |
| poignée de main {f} |
:: handshake |
| poignet {m} |
:: wrist |
| poignet {m} |
:: carpus |
| poil {m} |
:: hair (on the body) |
| poil {m} |
:: bristle (on a brush) |
| poiler {vr} [colloquial] |
:: to laugh hard |
| poil à gratter {m} [practical joke] |
:: itching powder |
| poilu {adj} |
:: 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 |
| 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) |
| poing {m} |
:: fist |
| poing américain {m} |
:: brass knuckles |
| poinçon {m} |
:: punch; stamp (device) |
| poinçon {m} |
:: hallmark (an official marking) |
| poinçon {m} |
:: bodkin |
| poinçon {m} |
:: awl |
| poinçonner {vt} |
:: to stamp, punch |
| poinçonner {vt} |
:: to hallmark |
| poinçonneuse {f} |
:: punch (machine) |
| 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 d'Angleterre {m} |
:: Brussels lace |
| point de côté {m} |
:: stitch (pain in one's side) |
| point de repère {m} |
:: point of reference, landmark |
| point de vue {m} |
:: point of view |
| point d'exclamation {m} |
:: exclamation mark, exclamation 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 |
| pointe {f} |
:: point |
| pointeau {m} |
:: punch, centrepunch |
| 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 final {m} |
:: period [US usage]; full stop [UK usage] |
| 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 |
| pointure {f} |
:: size (number, of clothing) |
| pointure {f} [colloquial] |
:: a master, a person very skilled at doing something |
| point virgule {m} |
:: semicolon |
| point-virgule {m} |
:: semicolon (punctuation mark) |
| poiré {m} |
:: perry (pear cider) |
| poiré de glace {m} |
:: ice perry |
| 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 |
| poireau {m} |
:: leek (the vegetable) |
| 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) |
| poirer {v} [slang] |
:: to nab, take by surprise |
| poirier {m} |
:: pear tree |
| poiré mousseux {m} |
:: sparkling perry (pear champagne) |
| 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 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-vipère {m} |
:: viperfish |
| poisson volant {m} |
:: flying fish (a tropical marine fish) |
| poitevin {adj} [attributive] |
:: 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 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 |
| 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 |
| poêlé {adj} |
:: pan-fried |
| polaire {adj} |
:: polar |
| Polandball {m} |
:: Polandball |
| polar {m} [colloquial] |
:: detective novel |
| polarimètre {m} |
:: polarimeter |
| polarimétrie {f} |
:: polarimetry |
| polarisé {adj} |
:: polarized |
| polarisabilité {f} |
:: polarizability |
| polarisation {f} |
:: polarization |
| polariser {v} |
:: to polarize |
| polarité {f} |
:: polarity |
| polaroïd {m} |
:: Polaroid picture |
| polarographie {f} [chemistry, physics] |
:: polarography |
| polder {m} [geography] |
:: polder |
| poêle {m} [religion] |
:: pall |
| poêle {m} |
:: stove |
| poêle {f} |
:: frying pan, pan |
| poêle {f} [colloquial] |
:: metal detector |
| -pole {suffix} |
:: -polis |
| -pole {suffix} |
:: -poly, related to market or economy |
| poêlée {f} |
:: pan fry |
| poêle à frire {f} |
:: frying pan |
| polenta {f} |
:: polenta |
| poêler {v} [cooking] |
:: to fry in a frying pan |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pollutaxe {f} |
:: pollution tax |
| pollution {f} |
:: pollution |
| Pollux {prop} [Greek god] |
:: Pollux |
| Pollux {prop} [star] |
:: Pollux |
| polémique {f} |
:: polemic, controversy |
| polémique {adj} |
:: polemic |
| polémiquer {vi} |
:: to be involved in a controversy |
| polémiste {mf} |
:: polemicist |
| Pologne {prop} {f} |
:: Poland |
| poêlon {m} |
:: Type of casserole (cooking pot) |
| polonais {m} |
:: Polish, the Polish language |
| polonais {adj} |
:: Polish |
| Polonais {m} |
:: Pole, someone from Poland |
| Polonaise {f} |
:: feminine noun of Polonais |
| polonium {m} |
:: polonium |
| poltron {mf} [pejorative] |
:: coward |
| poltron {adj} [pejorative] |
:: cowardly |
| poltronnerie {f} |
:: cowardice |
| poly- {prefix} |
:: poly- (many) |
| poly {adj} [slang] |
:: abbreviation of polytechnique |
| poly {adj} [slang] |
:: abbreviation of polyvalent |
| poly {mf} [slang] |
:: abbreviation of polytechnique (this is itself an abbreviation of institut polytechnique or école polytechnique) |
| poly {mf} [slang] |
:: abbreviation of polyvalente (this is itself an abbreviation of institut polyvalent or école polyvalente) |
| poly. {abbr} |
:: alternative form of poly |
| 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 |
| polyadique {adj} [maths] |
:: polyadic |
| polyadène {adj} [botany] |
:: polyadenous (having many glands or nodules) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| polychimiothérapie {f} [medicine] |
:: polychemotherapy |
| polychlorure {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: polychloride |
| polycholie {f} [pathology] |
:: polycholia |
| polychore {m} [geometry] |
:: polychoron |
| polychorique {adj} [statistics] |
:: polychoric |
| polychreste {m} |
:: polychrest |
| 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 |
| polychroïsme {m} [physics] |
:: polychroism |
| polychète {f} [zoology] |
:: polychete |
| polycistronique {adj} [genetics] |
:: polycistronic |
| polyclade {adj} [zoology, botany] |
:: polycladose, polycladous |
| polycladie {f} [botany] |
:: polyclady |
| polyclinique {f} |
:: private hospital |
| polycombustible {adj} |
:: synonym of multicombustible |
| polycondensé {adj} |
:: polycondensed |
| polycondensat {m} [chemistry] |
:: polycondensate |
| polyconique {adj} |
:: polyconic |
| polycopié {adj} |
:: duplicated |
| polycopiage {m} |
:: duplication (of documents) |
| polycopie {f} |
:: duplicating (of documents) |
| polycopie {f} |
:: duplicate (document) |
| polycopier {vt} |
:: to duplicate [documents] |
| polycopieuse {f} |
:: duplicator (duplicating machine) |
| polycorde {m} [music] |
:: polychord |
| polycorde {adj} [music] |
:: polychordal |
| polycotylaire {adj} [botany] |
:: polycotyledonous |
| polycéphale {adj} |
:: polycephalic |
| polycratie {f} |
:: polycracy |
| polycristallin {adj} |
:: polycrystalline |
| polycétide {m} [biochemistry] |
:: polyketide |
| polycétone {f} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyketone |
| 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) |
| polyédrique {adj} |
:: polyhedral |
| polyedrique {adj} |
:: alternative form of polyédrique |
| polyembryonie {f} [botany] |
:: polyembryony |
| polyergue {f} |
:: Amazon ant (of the genus Polyergus) |
| polyestérifier {v} |
:: To polyesterify |
| 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 |
| polyglotte {adj} |
:: polyglot |
| polyglotte {mf} |
:: a polyglot |
| polyglottement {adv} |
:: polyglottically |
| polyglottement {adv} |
:: multilingually |
| polyglotter {v} |
:: To speak several languages |
| polyglottisme {m} |
:: polyglotism |
| polygénique {adj} |
:: polygenic |
| polygénisme {m} |
:: polygenism |
| polygéniste {adj} |
:: polygenist |
| polygéniste {mf} |
:: polygenist |
| polygénèse {adj} |
:: alternative form of polygenèse |
| polygénèse {mf} |
:: alternative form of polygenèse |
| 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 |
| polymicrogyrie {f} [pathology] |
:: polymicrogyria |
| polymélie {m} [pathology] |
:: polymelia |
| polyménorrhée {f} |
:: polymenorrhea |
| polymorphe {adj} |
:: polymorphic |
| polymorphe {adj} |
:: polymorphous |
| polymorphie {m} |
:: polymorphia, polymorphism |
| polymorphique {adj} |
:: polymorphic |
| polymorphisme {m} |
:: polymorphism |
| polymorphisme {m} [object-oriented programming] |
:: polymorphism |
| polymérase {f} |
:: polymerase |
| polymère {m} |
:: polymer |
| polymèrique {adj} [chemistry] |
:: polymeric |
| polymérique {adj} [chemistry] |
:: polymeric |
| polymérisé {adj} |
:: polymerized |
| polymérisable {adj} |
:: polymerizable |
| polymérisation {f} |
:: polymerization |
| polymériser {vt} [chemistry] |
:: to polymerize |
| polymétallique {adj} |
:: polymetallic |
| polymyosite {f} [pathology] |
:: polymyositis, dermatomyositis |
| polymythie {f} |
:: polymythy |
| polynational {adj} |
:: multinational |
| polyène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyene |
| polynia {m} |
:: polynya |
| polynôme {m} [maths] |
:: polynomial |
| polynômial {adj} |
:: alternative form of polynomial |
| polynomial {adj} |
:: polynomial |
| Polynésie {prop} {f} |
:: Polynesia |
| Polynésie française {prop} {f} |
:: French Polynesia |
| polynésien {adj} |
:: Polynesian (of or pertaining to Polynesia or its people or culture) |
| Polynésien {m} |
:: Polynesian person |
| Polynésienne {f} |
:: feminine noun of Polynésien |
| polynucléaire {adj} |
:: polynuclear |
| polynucléotide {m} |
:: polynucleotide |
| polynévrite {f} [pathology] |
:: polyneuritis |
| polyodonte {adj} |
:: polyodont |
| polyoléfine {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyolefin |
| polyonychie {f} |
:: polyonychia |
| polyonyme {adj} |
:: polynymous |
| polyopie {f} |
:: polyopia |
| polyoside {m} [carbohydrate] |
:: polysaccharide |
| polyosidique {adj} |
:: polysaccharidal |
| polyoxygéné {adj} [chemistry] |
:: polyoxygenated |
| polyoxyméthylène {m} [organic compound] |
:: polyoxymethylene |
| polype {m} |
:: polyp |
| polypeptidique {adj} |
:: polypeptidic |
| polypeux {adj} |
:: polypous |
| polyphagie {f} |
:: polyphagia |
| polyphasé {adj} |
:: polyphase (electrical) |
| polyphasique {adj} |
:: polyphasic |
| polyphénol {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyphenol |
| polyphénolique {adj} |
:: polyphenolic |
| polyphobie {f} |
:: polyphobia |
| polyphonie {f} |
:: polyphony |
| polyphonique {adj} |
:: polyphonic |
| polyphoniquement {adv} |
:: polyphonically |
| polyphylie {f} [systematics] |
:: polyphyly |
| polyphylle {adj} [botany] |
:: polyphyllous |
| polyphylétique {adj} [systematics] |
:: polyphyletic |
| polypiforme {adj} |
:: polypiform |
| polyploïde {adj} [genetics] |
:: polyploid |
| polyploïdie {f} [genetics] |
:: polyploidy |
| polyploïdiser {v} [genetics] |
:: To polyploidize |
| polypnée {f} |
:: polypnea |
| polypoïde {adj} |
:: polypoid |
| polypose {f} |
:: polyposis |
| polyépoxyde {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyepoxide, epoxy (resin) |
| polyprénol {m} [organic compound] |
:: polyprenol |
| polypropylène {m} |
:: polypropylene |
| polypétale {adj} |
:: polypetalous |
| polyptote {m} |
:: polyptoton (stylistic scheme) |
| polyptyque {m} [art] |
:: polyptych |
| polyrrhize {adj} |
:: polyrhizal |
| polysaccaride {m} |
:: alternative form of polysaccharide |
| polysaccharide {m} |
:: synonym of polyoside |
| polysarcie {f} |
:: polysarcia |
| polysialie {f} |
:: polysialia |
| polysémantique {adj} |
:: polysemantic |
| polysème {m} [linguistics] |
:: polyseme |
| polysème {adj} [linguistics] |
:: polyseme |
| polysémie {f} |
:: polysemy (ability to have multiple meanings) |
| polysémique {adj} |
:: polysemic (having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings) |
| polysémiquement {adv} |
:: polysemically |
| polysomie {f} [genetics] |
:: polysomy |
| polysomique {adj} [genetics] |
:: polysomic |
| polysépale {adj} [botany] |
:: polysepalous |
| polyspaste {m} |
:: polyspast (machine consisting of many pulleys) |
| polysperme {adj} |
:: polyspermous |
| polyspermie {f} |
:: polyspermy |
| polystyrène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polystyrene |
| polystyrène {m} |
:: styrofoam |
| polysulfure {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: polysulfide / polysulphide |
| polysyllabe {adj} |
:: polysyllabic |
| polysyllabe {m} |
:: polysyllable |
| polysyllabique {adj} |
:: polysyllabic |
| polysyndète {f} [rhetoric] |
:: polysyndeton |
| polysynodie {f} |
:: polysynody |
| polysynodique {adj} |
:: polysynodic |
| polysynthétique {adj} |
:: polysynthetic |
| polysynthétisme {m} |
:: polysynthesis |
| polytechnicien {adj} |
:: related to École polytechnique |
| polytechnicien {m} |
:: graduate of École polytechnique |
| polytechnique {adj} |
:: polytechnic |
| Polytechnique {prop} {f} [France, familiar] |
:: the École Polytechnique, a major institute of higher learning outside of Paris |
| polyterpène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyterpene |
| polythiazyle {m} [inorganic chemistry] |
:: polythiazyl |
| polythéiser {v} |
:: To polytheize |
| polythéisme {m} [religion] |
:: polytheism |
| polythéiste {mf} |
:: polytheist |
| polythétique {adj} |
:: polythetic |
| polyéthylène {m} |
:: polyethylene |
| polytélite {f} [mineral] |
:: polytelite |
| polytomie {f} |
:: polytomy |
| polytonal {adj} [music] |
:: polytonal |
| polytonalité {f} [music] |
:: polytonality |
| polytonique {adj} |
:: polytonic (of music, multi-toned) |
| polytonique {adj} [phonology] |
:: polytonic |
| polytope {m} |
:: polytope |
| polytopisme {m} |
:: polytopism |
| polytoxicomane {mf} |
:: polytoxicomaniac (person addicted to multiple drugs) |
| polytraumatique {adj} |
:: polytraumatic |
| polytraumatisme {m} |
:: polytrauma |
| polytric {m} |
:: polytrichum |
| polytropie {f} |
:: polytropism |
| polytropique {adj} |
:: polytropic |
| polytétrafluoroéthylène {m} [organic chemistry] |
:: polytetrafluoroethylene |
| polytyper {v} |
:: To polytype |
| polyurie {f} [pathology] |
:: polyuria |
| polyurique {adj} |
:: polyuric |
| polyuréthane {m} |
:: polyurethane (any of various polymeric resins containing urethane links) |
| polyvalence {m} |
:: versatility |
| polyvalent {adj} |
:: versatile, multipurpose; that has various uses, functions, or capacities |
| polyvalent {m} |
:: an employee who carries out various different functions |
| polyvinyle {adj} [organic chemistry] |
:: polyvinyl |
| polyzoaire {m} |
:: polyzoon, bryozoon |
| polyzoïque {adj} |
:: polyzoic |
| poème {m} |
:: poem (literary piece written in verse) |
| poëme {m} [archaic] |
:: alternative spelling of poème |
| pomelo {m} |
:: alternative spelling of pomélo |
| pomélo {m} |
:: pomelo |
| pommadé {adj} |
:: pomaded |
| pommade {f} |
:: ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication) |
| pommade {f} |
:: pomade (such a substance used for hair styling) |
| pomme {f} |
:: apple (fruit) |
| pomme {f} |
:: Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size |
| pomme {f} |
:: The fruit part of several vegetables |
| pomme {f} |
:: The head |
| pommeau {m} |
:: shower head |
| pommeau {m} |
:: pommel |
| pomme d'Adam {f} |
:: Adam's apple |
| pomme d'amour {f} |
:: toffee apple |
| pomme de discorde {f} [idiomatic] |
:: apple of discord, bone of contention |
| pomme de terre {f} |
:: potato |
| pommelé {adj} |
:: dappled |
| pommer {v} [of vegetables, especially cabbage and lettuce] |
:: To develope a fruit |
| pommeraie {f} |
:: apple orchard |
| pommes frites {fp} |
:: french fries; chips |
| pommes soufflées {fp} |
:: slices of potato that have been fried twice so that they puff up into little balloons and turn golden-brown |
| pommette {f} |
:: cheekbone |
| pommier {m} |
:: apple tree |
| pomologie {f} |
:: pomology |
| pompé {adj} |
:: pumped |
| pompage {m} |
:: pumping |
| pompe {f} |
:: pump |
| pompe {f} |
:: push-up |
| pompe {f} [music] |
:: Style of strumming, used especially in gypsy jazz |
| pompe {f} |
:: a solemn procession |
| pompe {f} |
:: pomp, vainglory |
| pompe {f} |
:: style, class |
| pompe {f} [France, slang] |
:: shoe |
| pomper {v} |
:: to pump |
| pomper {v} [Europe, slang] |
:: To copy |
| pomper {vr} [Quebec, slang] |
:: To grow angrier as time goes on, especially if there are no further reasons to do so |
| pomper {v} [slang] |
:: To fellate (1) |
| pomper {v} [rare] |
:: To make pumped up |
| pompeusement {adv} |
:: pompously |
| pompeux {adj} |
:: pompous, bombastic (affectedly grand) |
| Pompéi {prop} |
:: Pompeii |
| pompidolien {adj} |
:: Of or from Le Pompidou |
| pompidolien {adj} |
:: Relating to, or characteristic of Georges Pompidou |
| Pompidou {prop} |
:: surname |
| Pompidou {prop} |
:: Georges Pompidou (1911-1974), a French politician and former president of France |
| pompéien {adj} |
:: Pompeiian |
| pompier {m} |
:: fireman, firefighter |
| pompier {m} [slang] |
:: blowjob |
| pom-pom girl {f} |
:: a female cheerleader |
| pompon {m} |
:: pompon (bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc.) |
| pomponnable {adj} |
:: primpable |
| pomponner {vt} |
:: to primp, titivate, prettify |
| Poméranie {prop} |
:: Pomerania |
| pomœrium {m} |
:: pomerium |
| péon {m} |
:: An agricultural labourer in Mexico |
| ponçage {m} |
:: sanding |
| ponant {m} |
:: The west |
| ponant {m} |
:: The western ocean (rather than the Mediterranean) |
| ponantais {adj} [nautical] |
:: western |
| ponce {f} |
:: pumice |
| ponce {f} [Quebec] |
:: hot alcoholic beverage made with gin or rum |
| Ponce {prop} {m} |
:: Pontius |
| ponceau {m} |
:: corn poppy |
| ponceau {m} |
:: poppy colour |
| ponceau {m} |
:: a small bridge |
| poncer {v} |
:: to rub down with an abrasive, sandpaper |
| ponceuse {f} |
:: sander (machine used for sanding) |
| ponch {m} |
:: alternative spelling of punch |
| poncho {m} |
:: poncho |
| poncif {m} [literary] |
:: banality, derivative, stereotype |
| ponction {f} |
:: puncture (especially a surgical one) |
| ponction {f} |
:: deduction, that which is taken away (such as a tax) |
| ponctionner {vt} |
:: to puncture |
| ponctionner {vt} |
:: to deduct [tax, etc.] |
| ponctué {adj} |
:: punctuated |
| ponctualité {f} |
:: punctuality |
| ponctuation {f} |
:: punctuation |
| ponctuel {adj} |
:: punctual, on time |
| ponctuel {adj} [physics] |
:: pointlike |
| ponctuel {adj} |
:: infrequent, occasional |
| ponctuellement {adv} |
:: punctually |
| ponctuellement {adv} |
:: occasionally, less frequently, only at certain times |
| ponctuer {v} |
:: to punctuate |
| pondeuse {f} |
:: an egg layer |
| pondeuse {f} [slang, by extension, pejorative] |
:: a woman who gives birth to many children; a breeder |
| Pondichéry {prop} |
:: Puducherry (Puducherry, India) |
| pondoir {m} |
:: nest box |
| pondérable {adj} |
:: ponderable |
| pondéral {adj} |
:: weight (attributive) |
| pondération {f} |
:: weighting |
| pondération {f} |
:: balance |
| pondre {v} |
:: to lay (eggs) |
| pondre {v} [slang, France] |
:: to give birth |
| pondérer {v} |
:: to weight (applying a weighting to) |
| pondéreux {adj} |
:: weighty, ponderous |
| péone {f} |
:: feminine singular of péon |
| poney {m} |
:: pony |
| pongiste {mf} |
:: table tennis player |
| pont {m} |
:: bridge |
| pont {m} |
:: deck |
| pont {m} [dentistry, Canada] |
:: bridge |
| ponté {adj} |
:: bridged |
| pontage {m} [medicine] |
:: bypass (an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ) |
| pontage {m} |
:: bridge-building |
| pont disulfure {m} [chemistry] |
:: disulfide bond |
| Ponte Euxine {prop} {m} [obsolete] |
:: Euxine Sea |
| ponter {v} |
:: to build a bridge |
| pontet {m} |
:: small bridge |
| pontet {m} |
:: trigger guard |
| pontier {m} |
:: bridgetender |
| pontife {m} |
:: pontiff |
| pontifical {adj} |
:: pontifical |
| pontificalement {adv} |
:: pontifically |
| pontificat {m} |
:: pontificate (state of a pontifex) |
| pontifier {v} |
:: to pontificate |
| pontière {f} |
:: feminine noun of pontier |
| pont-levis {m} |
:: drawbridge |
| ponton {m} [military] |
:: pontoon |
| ponton {m} [nautical] |
:: pontoon (floating structure supporting a bridge or dock) |
| ponton {m} [nautical] |
:: pontoon (the boat) |
| pont suspendu {m} |
:: suspension bridge |
| POO {f} |
:: initialism of programmation orientée objet (OOP) |
| poolish {m} |
:: poolish |
| pop {adj} |
:: pop (popular) |
| pop {m} |
:: pop, pop music |
| poper {v} [Internet] |
:: To access email via a POP server |
| Popesco {prop} |
:: surname |
| poplité {adj} [anatomy] |
:: Related to the calf |
| popo {m} |
:: potty |
| popo {m} |
:: poop (excrement) |
| popotin {m} [colloquial] |
:: bum (UK), butt (US) |
| Poppée {prop} |
:: Poppaea |
| populace {f} |
:: populace, common people |
| populacier {adj} [pejorative] |
:: vulgar, common |
| populacièrement {adv} |
:: vulgarly, commonly |
| populage {m} |
:: kingcup (Caltha palustris) |
| populage des marais {m} |
:: kingcup, buttercup, marsh marigold |
| populaire {adj} |
:: popular |
| populaire {adj} |
:: People's, as in People's Republic of China (in French: République Populaire de Chine) |
| populaire {m} |
:: populace, the people |
| populairement {adv} |
:: popularly |
| popularisé {adj} |
:: popularized |
| populariser {v} |
:: to popularize |
| popularité {f} |
:: popularity |
| population {f} |
:: A population |
| populationnel {adj} |
:: populational |
| populeux {adj} |
:: populous (densely populated) |
| populicole {adj} |
:: poplar (attributive) |
| populisme {m} |
:: populism |
| populiste {adj} |
:: populist |
| populo {m} [slang, pejorative] |
:: hoi polloi, commoners, plebs |
| poquer {v} [obsolete] |
:: in pétanque, to throw the boule up high so that it stops dead when it hits the ground |
| porc {m} |
:: pork |
| porc {m} |
:: pig |
| porcelaine {f} |
:: cowrie, a mollusk of the family Cypraeidae, or its translucent shell |
| porcelaine {f} |
:: porcelain, the translucent ceramic of fine china, or vessels made of this material |
| porcelainier {m} |
:: A person who makes or sells porcelain |
| porcelainière {f} |
:: feminine singular of porcelainier |
| porcelet {m} |
:: piglet |
| porche {m} |
:: porch, portico (decorated or ornate entrance to a building) |
| porcher {m} |
:: swineherd (pig keeper) |
| porcherie {f} [literally or figuratively] |
:: pigsty |
| porchère {f} |
:: feminine noun of porcher |
| porcin {adj} |
:: porcine; pig (of or relating to pigs) |
| porc-épic {m} |
:: porcupine |
| Pordenone {prop} |
:: Pordenone (province) |
| Pordenone {prop} |
:: Pordenone (town) |
| pore {m} |
:: pore (small opening in skin) |
| pore {m} |
:: by extension, small openings |
| poreux {adj} |
:: porous |
| Pori {prop} |
:: Pori |
| porn {f} |
:: porn |
| porno {m} |
:: porno; porn |
| pornographe {mf} |
:: pornographer |
| pornographie {f} |
:: pornography |
| pornographique {adj} |
:: pornographic |
| pornographiquement {adv} |
:: pornographically |
| porosité {f} |
:: porosity, porousness |
| porosité {f} |
:: permeability |
| porphyrine {f} [organic compound] |
:: porphyrin |
| port {m} |
:: port, harbour |
| port {m} |
:: port, harbour city |
| port {m} |
:: refuge |
| port {m} |
:: transport |
| port {m} |
:: postage |
| port {m} |
:: stature, way of carrying oneself |
| port {m} |
:: wearing (act of wearing something) |
| portabilité {f} |
:: portability |
| portabilité {f} |
:: wearability |
| portable {adj} |
:: portable |
| portable {m} |
:: a cell phone |
| portable {m} |
:: a laptop |
| portail {m} |
:: portal (imposing entrance) |
| portail {m} [Internet] |
:: portal |
| portail {m} |
:: gate |
| portail {m} [figuratively] |
:: portal (entry point) |
| portance {f} |
:: lift (upward force, such as that which keeps an aircraft aloft) |
| portance {f} |
:: bearing pressure |
| portant {adj} |
:: carrying |
| portatif {adj} |
:: portable |
| Port-au-Prince {prop} |
:: Port-au-Prince (capital of Haiti) |
| porté disparu {adj} [of a victim] |
:: reported missing, listed missing |
| porte {f} |
:: door |
| porte {f} |
:: gate (to a city, at airport) |
| porte {f} [figuratively] |
:: gateway, means, door |
| portée {f} |
:: reach |
| portée {f} |
:: litter (animals born in one birth) |
| portée {f} |
:: range (of a weapon) |
| portée {f} [music] |
:: stave |
| porte-aéronefs {m} |
:: aircraft carrier |
| porte-avions {m} |
:: aircraft carrier, a type of warship |
| porte-bonheur {m} |
:: lucky charm |
| porte-cigares {m} |
:: cigarette case |
| porte-clé {m} |
:: key chain |
| porte-clef {m} [archaic] |
:: turnkey |
| porte-clef {m} |
:: keychain, keyring |
| porte cochère {f} |
:: porte cochère |
| porte à deux battants {f} |
:: a set of double doors |
| porte-documents {m} |
:: briefcase |
| portefaix {m} [archaic] |
:: porter |
| portefeuille {m} |
:: wallet |
| portefeuille {m} |
:: folder |
| portefeuille {m} |
:: portfolio (investments) |
| portefeuille {m} [politics] |
:: portfolio |
| porte-jaja {m} [slang] |
:: suspender belt (UK), garter belt (US) |
| porte-jarretelles {m} |
:: suspender belt (UK), garter belt (US) |
| portemanteau {m} |
:: coat stand, coat rack |
| porte-mine {m} |
:: mechanical pencil |
| portemine {m} |
:: mechanical pencil |
| porte-monnaie {m} |
:: purse |
| portemonnaie {m} |
:: alternative form of porte-monnaie |
| porte papillon {f} |
:: butterfly door (a door mounted on a central pivot point which opens both inwards and outwards at the same time from the two halves) |
| porte papillon {f} |
:: a door which opens upwards, such as gullwing doors and scissor doors |
| porte-parole {mf} |
:: A spokesperson, a spokesman, a spokeswoman |
| porte-à-porte {adj} |
:: door-to-door (going from house to house) |
| porter {v} |
:: to carry |
| porter {v} |
:: to support, to bear |
| porter {v} |
:: to wear |
| porter {v} [of a subject, followed by the preposition sur] |
:: to be about, to concern |
| porter {vr} [se porter] |
:: to feel |
| porter {m} |
:: porter (beer) |
| porter atteinte {v} |
:: to harm (+ à), detract (à from) |
| porter aux nues {v} |
:: to praise, extol |
| porter à ébullition {v} [cooking] |
:: to bring to the boil |
| porter plainte {v} |
:: to complain, to lodge a (formal) complaint |
| porter plainte {v} [legal] |
:: to bring a criminal action (contre (against)) |
| porteur {m} |
:: carrier (one who carries) |
| porteur {m} |
:: porter |
| porteur {m} |
:: bringer; bearer |
| porteur {m} |
:: wearer (one who wears) |
| porteur {adj} |
:: carrying (in the process or carrying) |
| porteuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of porteur |
| portfolio {m} |
:: portfolio |
| Porthos {prop} |
:: [very rare] given name |
| Porthos {prop} |
:: One of the Three Musketeers |
| portier {m} |
:: gatekeeper, doorkeeper, doorman |
| portier {m} [soccer] |
:: goalkeeper |
| portillon {m} |
:: gate |
| portion {f} |
:: portion |
| portique {m} [architecture] |
:: portico |
| portique {m} |
:: gantry |
| portique {m} |
:: A type of crane |
| portique {m} |
:: frame (of a swing, jungle gym etc.) |
| portique {m} |
:: metal detector (at airport etc.) |
| portière {f} |
:: feminine noun of portier |
| portière {f} |
:: car door |
| porto {m} |
:: port wine |
| Porto {prop} |
:: Oporto |
| portoricain {adj} |
:: Puerto Rican |
| porto-ricain {adj} |
:: alternative form of portoricain |
| Portoricain {m} |
:: Puerto Rican (person from Puerto Rico) |
| Porto-Ricain {m} |
:: alternative form of Portoricain |
| Portoricaine {f} |
:: feminine noun of Portoricain |
| Porto-Ricaine {f} |
:: feminine noun of Porto-Ricain |
| Porto Rico {prop} {m} |
:: Puerto Rico |
| portos {mf} [pejorative, ethnic slur] |
:: Portuguese |
| portrait {m} |
:: portrait |
| portrait {m} |
:: description (of a person or things) |
| portrait craché {m} |
:: spitting image, dead ringer |
| portraitiste {mf} |
:: portraitist (portrait painter or photographer) |
| portraiture {f} [obsolete] |
:: portrait |
| portraiturer {vt} |
:: to paint a portrait |
| portraiturer {vt} |
:: to portray |
| portuaire {adj} [attributive] |
:: port; relating to ports |
| portugais {m} |
:: Portuguese, the Portuguese language |
| portugais {adj} |
:: Portuguese |
| Portugais {m} |
:: a native of Portugal; a Portuguese |
| Portugaise {f} |
:: feminine noun of Portugais; Portuguese (someone from Portugal) |
| Portugal {prop} {m} |
:: Portugal |
| posadisme {m} |
:: Posadism |
| posadiste {adj} |
:: Posadist |
| posadiste {mf} |
:: Posadist |
| pose {f} |
:: installation |
| pose {m} |
:: extension (in telecommunications) |
| posemètre {m} [photography] |
:: exposure meter |
| poser {vt} |
:: to stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody) |
| poser {vt} |
:: to ask (a question) |
| poser {vt} |
:: to land (a plane) |
| poser {vt} |
:: to lay, place |
| poser {vt} |
:: to install, fit |
| poser un lapin {v} [colloquial, followed by the preposition à] |
:: To stand someone up |
| poseur {adj} |
:: pompous, affected |
| poseur {m} |
:: poseur |
| Poséidon {prop} {m} [Greek god] |
:: Poseidon |
| posidonie {f} |
:: seagrass (of genus Posidonia) |
| poésie {f} |
:: poetry |
| positif {adj} |
:: positive (characteristic) |
| positif {adj} |
:: (number) positive or zero. nonnegative |
| positif {adj} |
:: positive (for e.g. a drug test) |
| positif {m} |
:: positive, something positive |
| positif {m} [physics] |
:: positive (electrical polarity) |
| positif {m} [linguistics] |
:: positive form |
| position {f} |
:: position |
| position intéressante {f} [euphemistic, singulare tantum] |
:: interesting condition |
| positionnel {adj} |
:: positional |
| positionnement {m} |
:: positioning |
| positionner {vt} |
:: to position |
| positionner {v} |
:: to position oneself, to prepare oneself |
| position sexuelle {f} |
:: sexual position |
| positivement {adv} |
:: positively, absolutely |
| positiver {v} |
:: to think positively; to be optimistic |
| positivisme {m} [philosophy] |
:: positivism |
| positiviste {adj} |
:: positivist |
| positivité {f} [countable or uncountable] |
:: positivity |
| positon {m} [physics] |
:: positon |
| positron {m} [particle] |
:: positron |
| posément {adv} |
:: calmly |
| posologie {f} |
:: posology |
| possédant {adj} |
:: propertied, property-owning |
| posséder {v} |
:: to own; to possess |
| posséder sexuellement {v} [literary or dated, euphemistic] |
:: to have sex (with) |
| possesseur {m} |
:: possessor |
| possesseuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of possesseur |
| possessif {adj} [grammar] |
:: possessive |
| possessif {adj} |
:: possessive |
| possessif {m} [grammar] |
:: possessive pronoun (broad sense); possessive pronoun (strict sense) or possessive adjective) |
| possessif {m} [grammar] |
:: the possessive case |
| possession {f} |
:: possession |
| possessivité {f} |
:: possessiveness |
| possibilisme {m} |
:: possibilism |
| possibiliste {adj} |
:: possibilist |
| possibiliste {mf} |
:: possibilist |
| possibilité {f} |
:: possibility |
| possible {adj} |
:: possible |
| possible {m} |
:: The possible, feasible, what can be done, achieved etc |
| possiblement {adv} |
:: possibly |
| post {m} [Internet] |
:: post (message on a blog, etc.) |
| post- {prefix} |
:: post- |
| postal {adj} |
:: postal |
| postalvéolaire {adj} |
:: postalveolar |
| postalvéolovélaire {adj} |
:: postalveovelar |
| postclassique {adj} |
:: postclassical (after the classical era) |
| postcombustion {f} |
:: reheat, afterburning (in an aero engine) |
| postcrânien {adj} |
:: postcranial |
| postdater {vt} |
:: to postdate |
| postdoctorant {m} |
:: postdoctoral student |
| postdoctorante {f} |
:: feminine noun of postdoctorant |
| poste {f} |
:: post office |
| poste {f} |
:: mail |
| poste {m} |
:: job, post |
| poste {m} |
:: position (in sport, or observation post) |
| poste {m} [slang] |
:: police station (ellipsis of poste de police), nick |
| poste {m} |
:: a receiver, an electronic device |
| poste {m} [colloquial] |
:: radio (ellipsis of poste de radio) |
| poste {m} [colloquial] |
:: TV, TV set (ellipsis of poste de télévision) |
| poste {m} |
:: (telephone) extension |
| poste {m} |
:: stretch, stint (at work) |
| poste d'écoute {m} [military] |
:: listening post |
| poste de contrôle {m} |
:: checkpoint |
| poste de contrôle {m} |
:: control room |
| poste de quartier {m} |
:: neighbourhood station / district station / community station |
| poste d'essence {f} |
:: petrol station, gas station |
| poster {vt} |
:: To post, (put in the) mail |
| poster {vt} [military] |
:: To post |
| poster {m} |
:: poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place) |
| postfacé {adj} |
:: Having an epilogue or afterword |
| posthume {adj} |
:: posthumous (taking place after someone's death) |
| posthumément {adv} |
:: posthumously |
| postiche {f} |
:: toupee, hairpiece, wig |
| postiche {f} |
:: false moustache, false beard |
| postiche {adj} |
:: artificial; false |
| postier {m} |
:: postman, postal worker |
| postillon {m} [historical] |
:: postman (courier who rides post) |
| postillon {m} |
:: postilion |
| postillon {m} [historical] |
:: a French-style hat worn by the postal workers |
| postillon {m} [colloquial] |
:: spittle (drop of saliva) |
| postillonner {v} |
:: to splutter (speak while spitting) |
| postillonneux {adj} |
:: spluttery; spitty (of a voice, characterised by lots of spluttering or spitting) |
| postimplantatoire {adj} |
:: post-implant |
| postière {f} |
:: feminine noun of postier |
| postmoderne {adj} |
:: postmodern (of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism) |
| postmoderne {adj} |
:: postmodernist |
| postmodernisme {m} [art] |
:: postmodernism |
| postmodernité {f} |
:: postmodernity |
| postopératoire {adj} |
:: postoperative |
| postposer {v} [grammar] |
:: to postpose |
| postposer {v} [Belgium] |
:: to postpone |
| postposition {f} [grammar] |
:: postposition |
| postérieur {adj} |
:: posterior |
| postérieurement {adv} |
:: later, subsequently |
| postériorité {f} |
:: posteriority |
| postérité {f} |
:: posterity |
| postérité {f} |
:: history |
| postscolaire {adj} |
:: after-school |
| post scriptum {phrase} |
:: post scriptum |
| postscriptum {m} |
:: alternative form of post-scriptum |
| postsecondaire {adj} |
:: postsecondary |
| postsynaptique {adj} |
:: postsynaptic |
| postsynchronisation {f} |
:: dubbing (adding sound to a film) |
| postsynchroniser {vt} |
:: to dub (add sound to a film) |
| post-traumatique {adj} |
:: post-traumatic |
| postulé {adj} |
:: postulated |
| postulat {m} [mathematics, logic] |
:: postulate |
| postuler {vi} |
:: to apply (+ à: for) |
| postuler {v} |
:: to postulate (assume as true) |
| postuler {v} |
:: to posit |
| posture {f} |
:: posture, attitude |
| posture {f} |
:: conduct, comportment |
| pot {m} [common, original sense] |
:: pot, jar, vase (often specified after its intended content which follows after à -, e.g. pot à épices 'spice jar') |
| pot {m} |
:: cooking pot; (culinary) dish |
| pot {m} [colloquial] |
:: drink, jar, bevvy |
| pot {m} [colloquial] |
:: do (UK), bash, drinks party |
| pot {m} |
:: pot, kitty, pool (of money staked at cards etc.) |
| pot {m} |
:: ancient measure, containing two pintes |
| pot {m} |
:: paper size, about 40 by 31 cm |
| pot {m} [slang, vulgar] |
:: arse, bum, backside |
| potabilisation {f} |
:: potabilization |
| potabilité {f} |
:: potability |
| potable {adj} |
:: potable |
| potable {adj} [colloquial] |
:: OK, passable |
| potache {adj} |
:: schoolboy |
| potache {m} [colloquial] |
:: student, school kid |
| potage {m} |
:: soup (dish) |
| potager {adj} |
:: potager |
| potager {m} |
:: potager garden |
| potager {m} |
:: a type of obsolete stone oven; a warming oven |
| potamochère {m} |
:: any species of the Potamochoerus genus. |
| potasser {v} |
:: to revise, cram (academic material, etc.) |
| potassium {m} |
:: potassium |
| pot-au-feu {m} |
:: Meat and vegetables cooked together in a large pot |
| pot-au-feu {m} |
:: A cooking pot |
| Pot-au-Noir {prop} {m} [geography] |
:: Doldrums |
| pot catalytique {m} |
:: catalytic converter |
| pot d'échappement {m} |
:: an exhaust pipe |
| pot de chambre {m} |
:: chamber pot |
| pot-de-vin {m} |
:: a bribe, payoff, sop |
| pote {mf} [colloquial] |
:: mate (UK), buddy (US) |
| poète {m} |
:: poet |
| potée {f} |
:: potful |
| potée {f} |
:: hotpot [of various sorts] |
| poteau {m} |
:: post, pole, stake, stanchion, strut, standard, prop, |
| poteau {m} [sports] |
:: goalpost |
| poteau {m} [France, slang] |
:: friend, buddy |
| potelé {adj} [obsolete] |
:: swollen, awkward |
| potelé {adj} |
:: plump, chubby |
| potence {f} [construction] |
:: post and braces |
| potence {f} |
:: gallows, gibbet (for hanging) |
| potentat {m} |
:: potentate (a powerful leader) |
| potentialisation {f} |
:: potentiation, potentialization |
| potentialiser {vt} |
:: to potentiate |
| potentialiser {vt} |
:: to potentialize |
| potentialité {f} |
:: potentiality |
| potentiel {adj} |
:: potential |
| potentiel {m} |
:: potential |
| potentiellement {adv} |
:: potentially |
| potentille {f} |
:: cinquefoil, potentilla |
| potentiomètre {m} |
:: potentiometer |
| Potenza {prop} |
:: Potenza (province) |
| Potenza {prop} |
:: Potenza (town) |
| poétereau {m} |
:: mediocre poet |
| poterie {f} |
:: pottery |
| poterne {f} |
:: postern |
| poétesse {f} |
:: poetess (female poet) |
| potiche {f} |
:: porcelain vase |
| potiche {f} |
:: figurehead (person); window dressing |
| potier {m} |
:: potter |
| potier {adj} |
:: potter, pottery |
| potier {adj} |
:: of or from Villers-les-Pots |
| potimarron {m} |
:: red kuri squash (of species Cucurbita maxima) |
| potin {m} |
:: pewter |
| potin {m} |
:: gossip, tittle-tattle |
| poétique {adj} |
:: poetic, poetical |
| poétiquement {adv} |
:: poetically (in a poetic way) |
| potiron {m} |
:: pumpkin |
| potiron {m} |
:: winter squash |
| poétiser {vi} |
:: To versify |
| poétiser {vt} |
:: To poetize or poeticize |
| potlatch {m} |
:: potlatch |
| pot-pourri {m} |
:: potpourri (collection of various things) |
| pou {m} |
:: louse (insect) |
| pouah {interj} |
:: ugh!, yuk! |
| poubelle {f} |
:: rubbish |
| poubelle {f} |
:: rubbish bin, garbage can |
| pouce {m} |
:: thumb |
| pouce {m} |
:: big toe |
| pouce {m} |
:: inch |
| poucet {m} |
:: A very small person |
| poucette {f} |
:: feminine singular of poucet |
| pouding {m} |
:: alternative spelling of pudding |
| pouding chômeur {m} |
:: pouding chômeur |
| Poudlard {prop} {m} |
:: Hogwarts, the fictional school of magic in the Harry Potter series |
| poudre {f} |
:: powder |
| poudre {f} [obsolete] |
:: dust |
| poudre à canon {f} |
:: gunpowder |
| poudrer {v} |
:: to powder (cover in powder) |
| poudrerie {f} [Canada] |
:: blowing snow |
| poudreuse {f} |
:: powder, powder snow |
| poudreux {adj} |
:: powdery (covered in powder) |
| poudrier {m} |
:: powder compact |
| poudrière {f} |
:: powder keg or magazine |
| poudroyer {vi} |
:: to rise in clouds |
| pouf {m} |
:: pouffe (thick cushion) |
| pouf {m} |
:: a girl of bad conduct |
| pouf {interj} |
:: poof (onomatopoeia) |
| pouffer {vi} |
:: To burst out (with laughter); to crack up |
| pouffiasse {f} [slang, pejorative] |
:: slag, floozy, whore |
| pougnasson {m} |
:: (possibly local, from Lorraine) incompetent worker |
| pougne {f} [Swiss] |
:: cheating; cheating strategy |
| pougner {v} [Swiss, familiar] |
:: to cheat |
| pouillerie {f} |
:: squalor |
| Pouilles {prop} |
:: Apulia (region of Italy) |
| pouilleux {adj} |
:: louse-infested |
| pouilleux {adj} [figuratively, pejorative] |
:: lousy, miserable |
| pouilleux {m} |
:: person who has lice |
| pouilleux {m} |
:: lousy, miserable person; a bum |
| pouillot {m} |
:: warbler |
| Pouilly-Fumé {m} |
:: Pouilly-Fumé |
| poujadisme {m} |
:: Poujadism |
| poujadisme {m} [pejorative] |
:: reactionary petit-bourgeois attitude |
| poujadiste {mf} |
:: Poujadist |
| poujadiste {mf} [pejorative] |
:: person with a reactionary petit-bourgeois attitude |
| poulaille {f} [dialectal] |
:: poultry |
| poulaille {f} [slang] |
:: cop, rozzer (police) |
| poulailler {m} |
:: henhouse, coop, chicken coop |
| poulailler {m} [colloquial] |
:: gods, gallery (of a theatre) |
| poulain {m} |
:: foal (young horse) |
| poulaine {f} [historical] |
:: poulaine |
| poulamon {m} |
:: tomcod (fish of species Microgadus tomcod) |
| poularde {f} |
:: Young, fattened chicken |
| poule {f} |
:: hen (female chicken) |
| poule {f} [slang] |
:: chick, bird (woman) |
| poule {f} [cards] |
:: pool |
| poule {f} |
:: pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages) |
| poule d'eau {f} |
:: moorhen |
| poule d'eau {f} |
:: batfish |
| poule d'eau {f} [Louisiana] |
:: the American coot (Fulica americana) |
| poule mouillée {f} [colloquial] |
:: chickenshit (coward) |
| poulet {m} [culinary] |
:: chicken |
| poulet {m} [slang, pejorative] |
:: policeman (especially a plain-clothes police detective) |
| poulet {m} [obsolete] |
:: love letter |
| poulet du Général Tao {m} |
:: General Tao chicken |
| pouliche {f} |
:: filly |
| poulie {f} |
:: pulley |
| pouliner {v} |
:: to foal (give birth) |
| Pouliot {prop} |
:: surname |
| poulpe {m} |
:: an octopus |
| pouls {m} |
:: pulse (regular beat caused by the heart) |
| poulsard {m} |
:: A black grape variety form Jura |
| poumon {m} |
:: lung |
| poupard {m} [dated] |
:: chubby baby |
| poupard {adj} [dated] |
:: chubby, plump |
| poupée {f} |
:: doll (object) |
| poupe {f} [nautical] |
:: poop, stern |
| poupée de chiffon {f} |
:: rag doll |
| poupin {adj} |
:: chubby |
| poupon {m} |
:: little baby |
| poupon {m} |
:: baby doll |
| pouponner {v} |
:: to dote |
| pouponner {v} |
:: to look after a baby |
| pouponnière {f} |
:: nursery, creche |
| poupoule {f} |
:: baby, friendly term of address for a child or woman |
| pour {prep} |
:: for (when followed by a noun or pronoun) |
| pour {prep} |
:: to (when following a verb at the infinitive) |
| pourboire {m} |
:: tip (extra money given to e.g. a waiter for appreciation) |
| pourcailhade {f} |
:: An annual pig festival in Trie-sur-Baïse, southwestern France, involving pig races, eating contests, etc |
| pource {conj} [Early Modern French] |
:: because, therefore, for that cause |
| pourceau {m} [literary or pejorative] |
:: swine, pig |
| pourcent {m} |
:: percent |
| pourcentage {m} [mathematics] |
:: percentage |
| pourcentage {m} |
:: commission, fee |
| pourchasser {v} |
:: to chase without relent; pursue |
| pour de bon {adv} |
:: for good |
| pourfendeur {m} |
:: attacker, opponent |
| pourfendre {vt} [literary] |
:: to slice through, slay (with a sword) |
| pourfendre {vt} [figuratively] |
:: to lay into, shoot down, attack, slate (criticize strongly) |
| Pourim {prop} {m} [Judaism] |
:: Purim |
| pourlécher {vt} |
:: To lick all around |
| pourlécher {vr} |
:: To lick ones lips |
| pour le coup {adv} |
:: this time, this time round, in this case |
| pour le coup {adv} |
:: [as intensifier] truly, actually, really; in fact |
| pour l'heure {adv} |
:: at the moment, for the time being |
| pour l'instant {adv} |
:: at the moment, for the time being |
| pour ne pas dire {conj} |
:: Not to say |
| pourparler {m} [almost always in plural] |
:: parley |
| pourparlers {mp} |
:: parley (conference) |
| pourpier {m} |
:: purslane |
| pourpoint {m} [historical] |
:: doublet |
| pourpre {m} |
:: burgundy (purple color) |
| pourpre {m} |
:: rich, purple fabric |
| pourpre {m} [tincture] |
:: purpure; purple color as used in heraldry |
| pourpre {m} [by extension, obsolete] |
:: power, authority |
| pourpre {adj} |
:: burgundy in color |
| pour que {conj} |
:: (+ subjunctive) so that, in order that |
| pourquoi {adv} |
:: why |
| pourquoi pas {phrase} |
:: why not? (negative question) |
| pourquoi pas {phrase} |
:: why not? (lacking objection) |
| pourquoi que {conj} [colloquial, nonstandard] |
:: why |
| pourri {adj} |
:: rotten; decayed |
| pourri {adj} |
:: (of food etc.) bad, rotten; off |
| pourri {adj} |
:: decomposed, putrefied (body) |
| pourri {adj} |
:: spoilt (child) |
| pourri {adj} |
:: bad; lame |
| pourri {m} [colloquial] |
:: swine, bastard |
| pourri {m} [slang] |
:: bent copper, dirty cop |
| pourriciel {m} [computing, rare] |
:: malware (software developed to harm a computer system) |
| pourriel {m} |
:: spam, junk mail |
| pour rien {adv} |
:: for nothing, pointlessly |
| pourrir {vit} |
:: to rot, decompose, putrefy, crumble |
| pourrir {vi} |
:: to waste away from a disease such as gangrene |
| pourrir {vr} [se pourrir] |
:: to rot, decompose, putrefy, crumble |
| pourrir {vr} [se pourrir] |
:: to waste away from a disease such as gangrene |
| pourrissant {adj} |
:: rotting, decaying |
| pourrissement {m} |
:: deterioration |
| pourrissement {m} |
:: decay |
| pourriture {f} |
:: rot |
| pourriture {f} |
:: (socially etc.) rottenness, something rotten |
| pourriture {f} [colloquial, pejorative] |
:: rotter, swine; cow, bitch |
| pourriture noble {f} |
:: noble rot |
| pourroit {v} |
:: obsolete form of pourrait |
| poursuite {f} |
:: pursuit; chase |
| poursuite {f} [cycling] |
:: pursuit |
| poursuite individuelle {f} [cycling] |
:: individual pursuit |
| poursuite par équipes {f} [cycling] |
:: team pursuit |
| poursuivant {m} |
:: pursuer |
| poursuivre {v} |
:: to pursue, to chase |
| poursuivre {v} |
:: to pursue, to persecute, to torment |
| poursuivre {v} |
:: to carry on, to continue what has been started |
| poursuivre {v} |
:: to sue |
| poursuivre {vr} |
:: to continue |
| poursuivre {vr} |
:: to chase after each other |
| poursuivre en justice {v} [legal] |
:: to sue |
| pourtant {adv} |
:: however, yet |
| pourtour {m} |
:: perimeter, circumference |
| pourtour {m} |
:: surrounding area |
| pourtour {m} |
:: ambulatory |
| pour un oui ou pour un non {adv} |
:: over the slightest thing |
| pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés {proverb} |
:: great honours are great burdens |
| pourvoi {m} [legal] |
:: appeal |
| pourvoir {vt} |
:: to equip, provide, endow (someone de with) |
| pourvoir {vt} |
:: to fill (a seat, job vacancy) |
| pourvoir {vi} |
:: to provide (à for) |
| pourvoir {vp} |
:: to provide oneself (de with) |
| pourvoir {vp} [legal] |
:: to appeal (en to) |
| pourvoirie {f} [Canada] |
:: outfitter |
| pour vous servir {prep} [formal] |
:: At your service. (literally "to serve you") |
| pourvoyeur {m} |
:: purveyor, supplier, source |
| pourvoyeuse {f} |
:: purveyor, supplier (female) |
| pourvu que {conj} |
:: let's hope (that) |
| pourvu que {conj} |
:: provided (that), as long as |
| pousse {f} |
:: growth (act of growing [of plants etc.]) |
| pousse {f} |
:: sprout, shoot |
| poussée {f} |
:: push |
| pousse-café {m} [familiar] |
:: chaser (small glass of alcohol) |
| poussée de croissance {f} |
:: growth spurt |
| pousser {vt} |
:: to push |
| pousser {vt} [followed by the preposition à] |
:: to urge on, encourage |
| pousser {vi} [of a living thing] |
:: to grow |
| pousser {vi} [figuratively] |
:: to spring up, to sprout |
| pousser {v} |
:: to utter (a cry) |
| poussette {f} |
:: pushchair (UK), stroller (US) |
| poussette {f} |
:: pushpin |
| pousseur {m} |
:: pusher, someone who pushes |
| pousseur {m} [nautical] |
:: push tug |
| pousseur {m} [aeronautics] |
:: booster |
| pousseur {m} [horse racing] |
:: stall handler |
| pousseur de bois {m} |
:: woodpusher (a poor chess player) |
| poussier {m} |
:: coal dust |
| poussif {adj} |
:: wheezy |
| poussin {m} |
:: chick (a young chicken) |
| poussinet {m} [colloquial] |
:: A young child; a kid |
| poussinet {m} [chiefly in the plural] |
:: A child in the youngest age group for a sport |
| poussinette {f} |
:: feminine singular of poussinet |
| poussière {f} |
:: dust |
| poussière {f} |
:: speck of dust |
| poussiéreux {adj} |
:: dusty |
| poussivement {adv} |
:: wheezily |
| poussoir {m} |
:: pushbutton |
| poussoir {m} |
:: tappet |
| pouët {interj} |
:: toot; parp |
| pouteille {f} |
:: A dish of pig's trotters and other ingredients cooked in red wine |
| poutine {f} [Quebec] |
:: poutine |
| poutine {f} [Acadia] |
:: any of several potato-based dishes |
| poutine {f} [Louisiana] |
:: dumpling |
| poutine {f} [Quebec, obsolete] |
:: any of several pudding-like desserts |
| poutine {f} [Quebec, obsolete] |
:: a messy situation or complicated thing; a quagmire |
| poutine {f} [Quebec, obsolete] |
:: a fat woman |
| Poutine {prop} |
:: Putin. A transliteration of the Russian surname Путин |
| poutine italienne {f} |
:: Italian poutine |
| poutinerie {f} [Canada, food] |
:: a poutinerie |
| poutou {m} |
:: kiss |
| Poutou {prop} |
:: surname |
| poutrap {adj} [slang] |
:: tight-fitting, skin-tight |
| poutre {f} |
:: beam, girder |
| poutre apparente {f} |
:: exposed beam |
| poutre apparente {f} [slang] |
:: tight-fitting trousers [chiefly used attributively] |
| poutrelle {f} |
:: beam, girder |
| poutrer {v} [vulgar] |
:: to fuck, screw |
| poutzer {vt} [Switzerland] |
:: to clean |
| pouvoir {v} |
:: can, to be able to |
| pouvoir {v} |
:: may |
| pouvoir {m} [countable or uncountable] |
:: power, a power |
| pouvoir {m} |
:: authority |
| pouvoir {m} [legal] |
:: power of attorney |
| pouzzolane {f} [geology] |
:: pozzolana |
| pov' {adj} |
:: informal spelling of pauvre |
| pépé {m} |
:: (child talk) grandpa |
| PPC {initialism} |
:: (pour prendre congé) "to take leave"; sometimes written on address cards by persons making farewell visits |
| pépée {f} [colloquial] |
:: bird, chick (young lady) |
| 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) |
| pépère {m} [colloquial] |
:: grandfather (also spelled pépé) |
| pépère {m} [childish] |
:: affectionate name for a male, such as honey, sweetie, baby (etc.) |
| P. Q. {abbr} |
:: alternative form of PQ |
| PQ {initialism} [Canada, politics] |
:: Parti Québécois - a political party of the province of Quebec, Canada |
| PQ {initialism} [dated, Canada] |
:: province de Québec - of Canada |
| PQ {initialism} [slang] |
:: initialism of papier cul loo roll [UK], TP (toilet paper) [US] |
| P.Q. {abbr} |
:: alternative form of PQ |
| pâque {f} |
:: Passover, Easter |
| Pâque {prop} |
:: Pesach |
| péquenaud {m} |
:: country bumpkin, yokel |
| péquenaude {f} |
:: feminine singular of péquenaud |
| pâquerette {f} |
:: daisy |
| Pâques {prop} {fp} |
:: Easter |
| péquiste {mf} [Canada, politics] |
:: a member of the Parti Québécois |
| péquiste {adj} [Canada, politics] |
:: pertaining to the Parti Québécois |
| pré- {prefix} |
:: pre- |
| pré {m} |
:: meadow |
| préaccord {m} |
:: preliminary agreement |
| préadamisme {m} |
:: belief that mankind existed before Adam |
| préadamite {m} |
:: pre-Adamite |
| préadamite {m} |
:: Christian sectarian who believes that mankind existed before Adam |
| préado {mf} |
:: preadolescent, preteen |
| préadolescence {f} |
:: preadolescence |
| préadolescent {adj} |
:: preadolescent, preteen |
| préadolescent {m} |
:: preadolescent, preteen |
| praesidium {m} |
:: alternative spelling of présidium |
| pragmatique {adj} |
:: pragmatic |
| pragmatiquement {adv} |
:: pragmatically |
| pragmatisme {m} |
:: pragmatism |
| pragois {adj} |
:: Of or from Prague |
| Prague {prop} {f} |
:: Prague |
| praguois {adj} |
:: alternative form of pragois |
| pérail {m} |
:: A mild cheese made from sheep milk |
| praire {m} |
:: venus clam |
| prairial {adj} |
:: Relating to pastures, grasslands |
| prairial {m} [historical] |
:: Prairial (the ninth month of French Republican Calendar) |
| prairie {f} |
:: meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie |
| préalable {adj} |
:: previous, prior; preliminary |
| préalable {m} |
:: preliminary condition, prerequisite |
| préalablement {adv} |
:: beforehand, first |
| pralin {m} |
:: pastry preparation using crushed pralines |
| pralin {m} |
:: preparation using mud and fertilizer used to coat young roots prior to plantation |
| pralin {adj} |
:: related to the village of Praz-sur-Arly, in Savoy |
| praliné {adj} |
:: prepared using a preparation of crushed pralines (called pralin) |
| praliné {m} |
:: sweet containing crushed praline |
| pralinage {m} |
:: (gardening) coating of young roots in mud |
| praline {f} |
:: praline |
| praline {f} |
:: (Belgium) filled chocolate |
| praliner {v} |
:: to coat with caramelized sugar |
| praliner {v} |
:: to coat young roots with a fertilized mud (called pralin) prior to plantation |
| Préalpes {prop} {fp} |
:: Prealps (Alpine foothills) |
| préalpin {adj} |
:: Of the Prealps |
| préambule {m} |
:: preamble (a short statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute) |
| préambuler {v} |
:: to prefix with a preamble |
| prame {f} |
:: pram, flatbottom boat |
| préanthropique {adj} |
:: pre-anthropic |
| prao {m} |
:: proa |
| praséodyme {m} |
:: praseodymium |
| praticabilité {f} |
:: practicability |
| praticable {adj} |
:: practicable, feasible |
| praticable {adj} |
:: practicable, usable |
| praticien {m} |
:: practitioner, someone who masters the practice of an art or science |
| praticienne {f} |
:: feminine noun of praticien |
| praticité {f} |
:: convenience |
| praticité {f} |
:: practicality |
| pratiquant {adj} |
:: churchgoing |
| pratiquant {m} |
:: churchgoer |
| pratiquant {m} |
:: a regular practiser of any religion |
| pratique {adj} |
:: applied; concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it (as opposed to spéculatif or théorique) |
| pratique {adj} |
:: concrete, practical |
| pratique {adj} |
:: belonging to the everyday or mundane |
| pratique {adj} |
:: experienced |
| pratique {adj} |
:: convenient; handy |
| pratique {f} |
:: practice |
| pratique {f} |
:: execution or implementation of something |
| pratique {f} |
:: methods, process, way of doing or achieving something |
| pratique {f} |
:: set of customs in a country or group of people |
| pratique {f} |
:: experience |
| pratique {f} |
:: act of frequenting |
| pratique {f} |
:: clientele, regular clients, or business therewith |
| pratique {f} [nautical] |
:: freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine) |
| pratique {f} |
:: a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism |
| pratiquement {adv} |
:: in practice |
| pratiquement {adv} |
:: practically (almost) |
| pratiquer {vt} |
:: to do; to practise |
| Prato {prop} |
:: Prato (province) |
| Prato {prop} |
:: Prato (city) |
| préau {m} |
:: yard |
| préavis {m} |
:: notice, advance warning |
| praxie {f} |
:: praxis |
| prébende {f} |
:: prebend |
| præbende {f} |
:: obsolete form of prébende |
| prébiotique {adj} |
:: prebiotic |
| précaire {adj} |
:: precarious |
| précairement {adv} |
:: precariously |
| précambrien {adj} |
:: Precambrian (before Cambrian) |
| précancéreux {adj} [medicine] |
:: precancerous |
| précarisé {adj} |
:: casualized (deprived of job security) |
| précarisation {f} |
:: casualization |
| précariser {vt} |
:: to make precarious |
| précariser {vt} |
:: to casualize |
| précarité {f} |
:: precarity, existence without financial or social security |
| précaution {f} |
:: precaution |
| précaution {f} |
:: prudence, wariness |
| précautionneusement {adv} |
:: precautionarily |
| précautionneux {adj} |
:: cautious, careful |
| précédemment {adv} |
:: before, before now |
| précédent {adj} |
:: preceding; earlier |
| précédent {m} |
:: the preceding; predecessor |
| précédent {m} |
:: precedent |
| précéder {v} |
:: to precede |
| præcedent {adj} |
:: obsolete form of précédent |
| præcedent {m} |
:: obsolete form of précédent |
| præcedente {f} |
:: obsolete form of précédente |
| précepte {m} |
:: precept |
| præcepte {m} |
:: obsolete form of précepte |
| précepteur {m} |
:: private tutor |
| præcepteur {m} |
:: obsolete form of précepteur |
| præceptrice {f} |
:: feminine singular of præcepteur |
| préceptrice {f} |
:: feminine singular of précepteur |
| précession {f} [physics, astronomy] |
:: precession |
| préchauffage {m} |
:: preheating |
| préchauffage {m} |
:: warming up (of an engine) |
| préchauffer {v} |
:: to preheat |
| prêche {m} |
:: sermon |
| prêcher {v} |
:: to preach |
| prêcher {v} |
:: to advocate moral values, political ideas |
| prêcher {v} |
:: to lecture someone about what is good or bad |
| prêcheur {m} |
:: preacher, advocate of high values, moralist |
| prêcheur {adj} |
:: preaching, moralizing |
| prêcheuse {f} |
:: feminine noun of prêcheur |
| préchrétien {adj} |
:: pre-Christian |
| précieusement {adv} |
:: preciously |
| précieux {adj} |
:: precious |
| préciosité {f} |
:: preciousness |
| précipice {m} |
:: precipice, deep and steep escarpment |
| præcipice {m} |
:: obsolete form of precipice |
| précipité {adj} [chemistry] |
:: precipitated |
| précipitamment {adv} |
:: abruptly |
| précipitation {f} |
:: precipitation, unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste |
| précipitation {f} [countable, chemistry] |
:: precipitation, a reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container |
| précipitation {f} |
:: (Weather) precipitation, any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground |
| præcipitation {f} |
:: obsolete form of précipitation |
| précipiter {vt} |
:: to throw out, push out, chuck out, throw off, push off, chuck off |
| précipiter {vr} |
:: to throw oneself out, to jump out |
| précipiter {vt} |
:: to take down, to bring down |
| précipiter {vt} |
:: to rush (hasten, do something too fast) |
| précipiter {vt} [chemistry] |
:: to precipitate |
| précipiter {vr} |
:: to precipitate (fall from the sky) |
| précipiter {vr} |
:: to dash, to move quickly |
| préciput {m} |
:: advantage, supplement contractually granted to an heir, a spouse, etc |
| précis {adj} |
:: Which does not leave doubt; specific, explicit |
| précis {adj} |
:: Done in a precise and reliable fashion |
| précis {adj} |
:: [Sound] Well perceived; sharp |
| précis {adj} |
:: [Of language or writing] Demonstrating precision, concision and accuracy |
| précis {adj} |
:: Said of someone whose language expresses such qualities |
| précis {adj} |
:: [Measure] Calculated or measured with precision |
| précis {m} |
:: précis |
| préciser {v} |
:: to specify |
| préciser {v} |
:: to clarify |
| préciser {v} |
:: to point out |
| préciser {vr} |
:: to take shape, become clear |
| précision {f} |
:: precision |
| précision {f} |
:: detail(s); information |
| précisément {adv} |
:: In a precise manner; without approximation |
| précisément {adv} |
:: Specifically |
| précisément {adv} [elliptically, in answers] |
:: Exactly, precisely |
| précisément {adv} [rhetoric] |
:: Indicates a logical link |
| précité {adj} |
:: above-mentioned |
| précoce {adj} |
:: early (at a time in advance of the usual) |
| précocement {adv} |
:: precociously |
| précocité {f} |
:: the state of being ahead of time, earliness |
| précolombien {adj} |
:: pre-Columbian |
| précolonial {adj} |
:: precolonial |
| préconisation {f} |
:: preconization |
| préconisation {f} |
:: recommendation |
| préconiser {v} |
:: to recommend, advocate |
| préconiser {v} |
:: to preconise |
| précontractuel {adj} |
:: precontractual |
| précontraint {adj} |
:: prestressed |
| préconçu {adj} |
:: preconceived |
| précuit {adj} |
:: pre-cooked |
| précurseur {adj} |
:: precursory |
| précurseur {m} |
:: precursor, forerunner |
| précurseur {m} [chemistry] |
:: precursor |
| prédateur {m} |
:: predator |
| prédation {f} |
:: predation |
| prédatrice {f} |
:: feminine noun of prédateur |
| prédécéder {v} |
:: predecease (to die sooner than) |
| prédécesseur {m} |
:: predecessor |
| prédécouper {v} |
:: to precut |
| prédécès {m} |
:: predecease (anterior death) |
| prædecesseur {m} |
:: obsolete form of prédécesseur |
| prédestiné {adj} |
:: predestined |
| prædestination {f} |
:: obsolete form of prédestination |
| prédestination {f} |
:: predestination |
| prédestiner {vt} |
:: to predestine |
| prédéfini {adj} |
:: predefined |
| prédéfinir {v} |
:: to predefine |
| prédicant {adj} |
:: predicant, preaching |
| prédicant {m} |
:: protestant preacher |
| prédicat {m} |
:: predicate (all meanings) |
| prédicateur {m} |
:: preacher |
| prædicateur {m} |
:: obsolete form of prédicateur |
| prédication {f} |
:: predication |
| prédication {f} |
:: sermon |
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