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

blessé: injured (person), wounded (person)
blessé: injured, wounded
blet: overripe
blette: Swiss chard
blettir: to overripen, to blet
blettissement: overripening
blettisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of blettir
blettissure: overripening
bleu: the color blue; blue cheese; rookie, new recruit, raw recruit; bruise; billiard chalk
bleu: blue; very rare, underdone
bleu bite: rookie
bleu canard: teal
bleu ciel: sky blue (of a pale blue colour)
bleu d'Auvergne: bleu d'Auvergne
bleu de Chartres: Chartres blue (blue used for the windows of Chartres Cathedral)
bleu de Gascogne: A race of pigeons from Southeastern France with blue plumage, a Gascony pigeon.
bleu de Prusse: Prussian blue, Berlin blue
bleu de travail: boilersuit, overalls, dungarees
bleu marine: navy blue (of a dark blue colour)
bleu nuit: of a midnight blue colour
bleu pétrole: of a dark blue green colour
bleu, blanc et rouge: the colors of the French flag; Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club; the colors of the American flag
bleu-bite: alternative spelling of bleu bite
bleu-bitte: alternative spelling of bleu bite
bleubite: alternative spelling of bleu bite
bleuet: cornflower (flower); North American blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
bleuetière: Place where blueberries are commercially grown
bleuir: to make blue, turn blue; to turn blue, go blue
bleuissable: able to be made blue
bleuissement: turning blue, blueing
bleuisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of bleuir
bleusaille: new recruit
bleuter: synonym of bleuir; play truant, skip class
bleuté: bluish (somewhat blue in colour/color)
bleuâtre: bluish
bliaut: a bliaut; an overgarment worn by men & women in the Middle Ages
blidéen: of Blida
blindage: armour, armour plating
blinde: pieces of wood used as cover or protection
blinder: to armor; to reinforce
blindé: armoured, armour-plated; reinforced; hardened, immune; pissed, hammered (drunk); rich, minting it; overcrowded
blindé: armored vehicle in general
blini: blini
blister: blister pack
blizzard: blizzard
bloatware: bloatware
bloc: a block (e.g., of wood); a bloc, an alliance; a pad of paper; block (of memory, of code)
bloc de brouillon: notebook
bloc de béton: breeze-block (concrete masonry unit)
bloc de départ: starting block
bloc de l'Est: Eastern Bloc
bloc moteur: engine block, cylinder block
bloc noir: black bloc
bloc opératoire: operating theatre
bloc-cylindres: cylinder block; engine block
bloc-heater: block heater: synonym of chauffe-bloc moteur
bloc-moteur: engine block
bloc-note: post-1990 spelling of bloc-notes
bloc-notes: notebook (book), notepad
blocage: block (e.g. of traffic); block (act of physically blocking); block (obstruction); block, blocking; blockage