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bagagiste: baggage handler
bagarre: brawl, fight
bagarrer: to scrap, to scuffle (have a physical fight); to fight (to strive for something with lots of effort)
bagarreur: quarrelsome, pugnacious, rowdy
bagarreur: brawler, battler
bagasse: bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after extracting the juice); residue of indigo after extracting the dye by fermentation
bagasse: a female prostitute
bagatelle: bagatelle, trinket, bauble; trifle
bagel: bagel (toroidal bread roll)
baggy: baggy
baggy: Loose-fitting trousers
bagnard: crook; convict, prisoner of a penal colony
bagne: penal colony; prison where prisoners are forced to labour
bagnole: ride; whip; wheels (an automobile)
bagosse: moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink
bagou: glibness, volubility, gift of the gab; sales pitch
bagouler: to say, tell
bagouse: alternative spelling of bagouze
bagouze: a large ring; a signet ring
bague: ring; bague
baguel: alternative spelling of bagel
baguenaude: dawdling; stroll
baguenauder: to stroll, amble
baguenaudeur: strolling, ambling
baguenaudier: bladder senna (Colutea arborescens) (masculine only); trifler
baguer: to ring, tag, band (attach a tag or ring, e.g. to a bird, for tracking); to collar
baguette: stick, rod, any long thin object; baguette, French stick; chopstick; drumstick; (conductor's) baton; wand
baguette de batterie: drumstick
baguette de coudrier: divining rod, dowsing rod, dowser
baguette de direction: conductor's baton
baguette de sourcier: divining rod, dowsing rod, dowser
baguette magique: magic wand
baguettisant: dowser
baguettiser: to dowse, to use a dowsing rod or divining rod
baguier: a box used to store rings; a ring sizer (conical device)
bah: No.; An exclamation to fill space, often used as an intensifier; well, err, um
bahamien: Bahamian
bahaméen: Bahamian (of, from, or pertaining to the Bahamas, or the Bahamian people.)
bahaï: Baháʼí
bahaï: Baháʼí
bahaïsme: the Baháʼí Faith
bahia: abura (Mitragyna ledermannii, syn. M. ciliata)
bahianais: Bahian
bahreïni: Bahraini
bahreïnien: Bahraini
bahut: chest; sideboard; school; lorry, truck; (taxi) cab
bai: bay (of a reddish-brown colour)
baie: berry
baie: bay, bight (body of water)
baie: bay window
baie James: James Bay (a bay of Canada, part of Hudson Bay); the James Bay Project
baie de Guanabara: Guanabara Bay (a bay in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
baie de genièvre: juniper berry
baie des Cochons: Bay of Pigs (an inlet off Cuba)
baie des Puants: Green Bay (a long bay which is an arm of Lake Michigan, along the coast of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
baie vitrée: bay window
baignable: batheable
baignade: an instance of bathing
baigner: to bathe; to go for a swim
baigneur: bather (person who bathes or takes a bath); Doll representing a young boy (masculine use only)