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balbutiement: stammering; stammer
balbutier: to stammer; to stutter
balbutieur: stammerer; stutterer
balbuzard: osprey
balcon: balcony
balconnet: small balcony; half-cup bra, balcony bra
baldaquin: baldaquin, canopy
bale: chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)
baleine: whale (mammal); whalebone, bone; stay (prop for clothing, in particular corsets); landwhale
baleine bleue: the blue whale
baleine boréale: bowhead whale
baleine de Cuvier: Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
baleine de Minke: minke whale
baleine du Groenland: bowhead whale
baleine grise: gray whale
baleine pilote: pilot whale
baleine pygmée: pygmy right whale
baleine à bec: beaked whale
baleine à bosse: humpback whale
baleine à fanons: baleen whale
baleineau: whale calf
baleiner: to equip or stiffen (clothing, umbrella etc.) with whalebone
baleinier: whale, whaling
baleinier: whaler (boat); whaler (person who hunts whales)
baleinière: whaleboat (boat); female equivalent of baleinier: whaler
baleiné: stiffened with whalebone
balek: clipping of se battre les couilles de
balestrille: crossbow, arbalest
balestron: sprit (type of spar)
balinais: of Bali; Balinese (of, from or associated with Bali, its people or culture); of the Balinese language
balinais: Balinese (language); an oriental breed of cats
balique: Pali
balisage: mark; marking; tag
balise: beacon (e.g., a signal fire); beacon; tag (element of code); buoy, seamark; blaze, waymark, mark, marking
baliser: to mark with beacons; to waymark, to signpost; to prepare the ground; to tag
baliseur: buoy tender (boat)
baliseur: buoy tender (person)
balisier: saka siri, Indian shot (of species Canna indica); lobster claw (or similar plant of the genus Heliconia)
baliste: ballista
baliste: triggerfish
balistique: ballistic
balistique: ballistics
balistiquement: ballistically
balistite: ballistite
balivage: staddling (marking of saplings to remain when thinning a forest)
baliveau: staddle, sapling
baliver: to staddle
baliverne: trifle, nonsense
baliverner: to talk nonsense; to mock
baliveur: someone who staddles trees
balkanique: Balkan (from the Balkans)
balkanisation: Balkanisation
balkaniser: to Balkanize
ball-trap: skeet, trap shooting
ballabile: ballabile
ballade: ballade (lyric poem); ballad
balladurien: Relating to French politician Édouard Balladur
ballant: dangling
ballast: heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability; coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads
ballastage: ballasting