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9,359 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

alliance: alliance, union; wedding ring
allier: to ally; to alloy
alligator: alligator (animal)
allitératif: alliterative
allitération: alliteration
allié: friendly; allied
allié: ally; ally (person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it)
allo: post-1990 spelling of allô
allocataire: beneficiary
allocation: allocation; granting, assignment; benefit, allowance
allocation familiale: child benefit, family allowance
allocentrisme: allocentrism
allocentriste: allocentrist
allocentré: allocentric
allochorie: allochory
allochtone: allochthonous
allochtone: a non-native person, a foreign-born person, a foreigner
allocs: child benefit
allocutaire: addressee (person to whom something is addressed)
allocuteur: addresser (person addressing)
allocution: speech, address
allocyclique: allocyclic
allodial: allodial
allodialement: allodially
allogame: allogamous
allogamie: allogamy
allographe: allograph
allographique: allographic
allogène: recently immigrated and still noticeably exhibiting traits or characteristics of their previous nationality; allogenic
allogène: a person who has settled in a new nation or territory who still noticeably exhibits traits or characteristics of their previous nationality; an obvious immigrant
allogénique: allogenic
alloimmunisation: alloimmunization
allomorphe: allomorph
allongeable: extendible
allongement: lengthening, extension
allongement compensatoire: compensatory lengthening
allonger: to lay down; to lengthen, to make longer, to extend; to extend out, to stretch; to lengthen; to grow, to get longer
allonger la sauce: to water down a sauce; to pad one's text (to increase the size of a text by adding undesirable filler); to drag things out; to waffle
allonger le pas: to lengthen one's stride, to walk faster
allongerais: IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /a.lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/; first/second-person singular conditional of allonger
allons-y: first-person plural imperative of y aller; come with me, follow me
allonyme: allonym
allopathe: allopath
allopathie: allopathy
allopathique: allopathic
allopathiquement: allopathically
allopatrie: allopatry
allopatrique: allopatric
allophone: allophone (any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme); allophone (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
allophyle: allophylic
allophylique: allophylic
alloploidisation: alloploidization
allopurinol: allopurinol
allors: obsolete spelling of alors
allosexuel: allosexual (LGBT, trans or non-heterosexual); rhymed using words with different grammatical genders
allosome: allosome
allosomique: allosomic
allostasie: allostasis
allostatique: allostatic
allostérie: allostery