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5,394 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

babiller: to chat; to babble; to natter (to talk about insignificant things); to scold
babine: prominent or pendulous animal lip (of camel, monkey etc.); (human) lip
babiole: useless or worthless thing; a trinket
babiroussa: babiroussa
babisme: Bábism
babord: archaic spelling of bâbord; larboard, port (the left side of a ship)
babouche: babouche
babouin: baboon
babouinesque: baboonish
babouvisme: Babouvism (form of socialism characterism of François-Noël Babeuf
babouviste: Babouvist
baby: table soccer, table football; baby, darling, sweetheart; Mary Jane shoes
baby blues: baby blues
baby-boomer: baby boomer
baby-boomeur: alternative spelling of baby-boomer
baby-foot: table football, foosball (game); foosball table (furniture)
baby-sitter: a babysitter
babyboom: baby boom (post-World War II baby boom, 1946 to 1964); baby boom (any large increase in births)
babyfoot: post-1990 spelling of baby-foot (“table football”)
babylonien: Babylonian
babélien: Babelian
babélique: Babelic
babésiose: babesiosis
bac: ferry; vat; tray (at the airport)
bac: high school exit exam in France; A level, matura; bachelor's degree
bac de tri: sorting bin (any of various containers designated for specific types of recyclable waste)
bac à sable: sandbox, sandpit
baccalauréat: baccalaureat (≈ A-level, high school diploma); bachelor's degree
baccara: baccarat (card game)
bacchanal: a loud, annoying noise; a revolt amongst the peasantry
bacchanale: bacchanal
bacchante: bacchante; moustache
bacciforme: bacciform
baccifère: bacciferous
baccivore: baccivorous
bachelier: graduate of the baccalauréat; person holding a bachelor's degree; bachelor's degree
bachelor: bachelor's degree
bachi-bouzouk: bashi-bazouk (an irregular soldier in the Ottoman army)
bachique: bacchic; Bacchanalian
bachkir: Bashkir
bachot: a small vat or similar container; baccalauréat; bac (≈ A-level, high school diploma)
bachotage: piloting a ferry; cramming (for an exam)
bachoter: to cram (revise hard for an exam, especially for a baccalauréat exam)
bachotte: a container for transporting live fish
bacillaire: bacilliary
bacille: bacillus (rod-shaped bacterium)
bacilliforme: bacilliform (shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped)
bacillose: bacillosis
back: to back (something) up, to move (something) back; to move (oneself) back, to reverse direction; to back, to support (a political candidate, etc.)
back: back
backgammon: backgammon
backside: backside
bacologie: sericulture
bacologique: sericultural
bacon: bacon
baconien: Baconian
bactrien: Bactrian
bactéricide: bactericidal
bactéricide: bactericide; antibiotic
bactéridie: bacillus