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

alécithe: alecithal
alégal: alegal
alégalement: alegally
alémanique: Alemannic
aléniforme: acuminate
alénois: of or from Orléans
aléoute: Aleut, Aleutian, Aleutic
aléoute: Aleut (language)
aléoutien: Aleutian
aléphangine: Describing certain purgatives containing camomile and henbane
alépin: Aleppine
alérion: alerion; ultralight (aircraft)
alésage: reaming, boring
aléser: to ream (a hole; to use a reamer or boring machine to drill or enlarge a hole or cavity)
aléseur: reamer, borer (person)
aléseuse: boring machine (machine for boring, reaming)
alésien: of Alès
alésoir: reamer (tool used to precisely bore holes or cavities)
alésé: detached; not reaching the edges; often said of a cross
aléthique: alethic (relating to the modalities of truth)
alévie: Alevite
alévisme: Alevism
alêne: awl (pointed instrument for piercing)
alêné: acuminate, subulate
amabile: in a tender, loving style
amabilité: kindness; friendliness; gentleness
amabilités: plural of amabilité; pleasantries
amadou: lure; bait; tinder; kindling; touchwood; spunk
amadouer: to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually); to cajole; to humour (person)
amadouvier: tinder fungus, hoof fungus
amagnétique: nonmagnetic, amagnetic
amaigrir: to emaciate make thinner (in an unhealthy way); to get thinner (in an unhealthy way), to become emaciated
amaigrissement: emaciation
amaigrisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of amaigrir
amal: Amal (language)
amalfitain: of Amalfi
amalgamation: amalgamation
amalgame: amalgam; amalgamation; an incongruous mixture; hodgepodge, mishmash, jumble
amalgamer: to amalgamate
amancher: to arrange or adjust; to put a handle on a tool, assemble various parts
amandaie: almond grove / plantation
amande: almond (the nut); Glycymeris spp.
amandier: almond tree
amandin: almond-like, amygdalic
amandine: amandine
amandé: almond milk
amanite: amanita
amanite des Césars: Caesar's agaric, Caesar's mushroom (Amanita caesarea)
amanite phalloïde: death cap (Amanita phalloides)
amanite tue-mouches: fly agaric, fly fungus (Amanita muscaria)
amant: lover (one who loves a particular person); lover (one who loves a particular thing, pursuit, etc.); lover (participant in an extramarital or otherwise illicit romantic or sexual affair)
amaphrose: obsolete spelling of amaurose
amarantacée: amaranth (of family Amaranthaceae)
amarante: amaranth (color)
amarante: amaranth (herb); purpleheart (tree); amaranth (colour)
amaranthe: archaic spelling of amarante
amaretto: the sweet-bitter liqueur amaretto; a glass of amaretto
amareyeur: oyster farmer
amaril: yellow fever
amarinage: the act of becoming a sailor