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

bathymétrie: bathymetry
bathymétrique: bathymetric
bathypélagique: bathypelagic
bathyscaphe: bathyscaphe
bathysphère: bathysphere
batifolage: frolic; frolicking
batifoler: to frolic
batik: batik
batiste: cambric (textile)
batoude: trampoline
batracien: batrachian; amphibian
batracien: batrachian
batral: bâtiment de transport léger — a military sea transport, light ferry transport
battable: beatable (able to be beaten)
battage: hype, publicity
battant: beating
battant: a leaf (of a door or a window); a leaf (of a foldable table or a counter); a stayer, a fighter, a go-getter (someone who shoots for success despite obstacles)
batte: a bat (as in baseball bat)
battellement: a gutter, typically on a roof, consisting of a double set of tiles
battement: beating; hitting; battement
batter: to bat
batterie: battery; percussion, drum kit, battery/batterie; battery (electricity storing device); batterie
batteur: batter; drummer, percussionist; whisk, beater
batteur d'estrade: scout
batteuse: threshing machine, thresher; female equivalent of batteur: female drummer
battoir: beater; carpet beater; washing beetle, battledore
battologie: battology
battologique: battological
battre: to beat; to defeat; to beat up; to fight; to whisk or whip (eggs); to thresh
battre de l'aile: to go into decline, to wane (be in difficulty); to be on the rocks, on the skids
battre des ailes: to flutter (to flap its wings while on the ground)
battre en brèche: to reduce to rubble, to give a pounding; to tackle (an urgent issue), to strike at the heart of (a problem)
battre en retraite: to retreat, to beat a retreat
battre froid: to give the cold shoulder to, to cold-shoulder
battre l'estrade: to reconnoitre the terrain, to scout; to get the lay of the land
battre la campagne: to comb the countryside, to travel all round the countryside; to be off one's rocker
battre la chamade: to beat wildly, to pound furiously
battre la mesure: to beat time, to keep time
battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud: to strike while the iron is hot, to make hay while the sun shines
battre le pavé: to take to the streets, to demonstrate
battre monnaie: to mint coins, to coin, to issue money, to issue currency
battre sa coulpe: to beat one's breast, to admit one's guilt, to acknowledge one's faults and wrongs, to make one's mea culpa
battre son plein: to be in full swing
battre à plate couture: to wipe the floor with, to beat hollow, to beat to a pulp, to shellac, to drub (to defeat severely, to inflict a heavy defeat upon)
battre à plates coutures: alternative spelling of battre à plate couture
battu: beaten
battue: battue; the beating of bushes to force out the game; hunt, search
batture: a mixture of wax, linseed oil and turpentine used in bookbinding; the process of applying this mixture; batture; foreshore
battée: pan (used in gold prospecting)
batée: pan (used in gold panning)
bau: crossbeam
baud: a type of hunting dog
baud: baud (unit)
baudelairien: of Baudelaire; Baudelairean (relating to Charles Baudelaire or his works)
baudet: ass (donkey); ass; ignoramus (idiot)
baudir: to embolden
baudremoine: baldmoney, spignel
baudrier: baldric; strip of buffalo, leather or cloth which is worn as a sling and which is used to support the saber or sword; climbing harness; cowhide used for sneakers
baudroie: anglerfish (of genus Histrio); monkfish (of genus Lophius); goosefish (of genus Lophiodes)
baudroyeur: currier