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

bossu: hunchback
bossu: hunchbacked, round-shouldered
bossuer: To make lumpy or bumpy
bossué: humped, bossed, lumpy
bossèlement: post-1990 spelling of bossellement
boston: Boston (game)
bostonien: Bostonian
bostonner: to dance the Boston
bostryche: bark beetle
bot: bot
bot: affected by the deformation known as clubfoot; affected by a similar-looking deformation
botanique: of botany; botanical
botanique: botany (branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants)
botaniquement: botanically
botaniser: to botanize
botaniseur: botanizer
botaniste: botanist
botox: Botox
botoxer: to treat with Botox
botrytique: botrytic
botswanais: of Botswana; Botswanan
botte: ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet); large barrel, cask; a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds; a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons
botte: boot (footwear); something resembling a boot; oppression; the top of the class in polytechnic school
botte: bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables); bundle, sheaf (of grain); bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay); fodder or feed for small livestock; a bundle of skeins
botte: thrust
botte secrète: secret weapon
botte à botte: side by side
bottelage: bundling; sheafing
botteler: To sheaf; to bundle
botteleur: hay stacker
botteleuse: hay stacker
botter: to kick; to please, to like
botter en touche: to kick into touch; to kick into touch; to avoid a question
botter le cul: to kick someone's ass; to give a kick up the arse (to treat someone a bit roughly in order to motivate them)
botter les fesses: to give a kick up the backside (to treat someone a bit roughly in order to motivate them)
botterie: a workshop crafting boots; a shop selling boots
bottier: bootmaker
bottillon: ankle boot
bottin: telephone directory, phone book
bottine: boot
bottom: bottom (passive in role)
botté: booted; wearing boots
botulique: botulinic
botulisme: botulism
bou: bohea (type of Chinese tea from Fujian)
bouana: bwana, boss, master
boubou: boubou (African robe)
bouboule: fatty; fat person
boubouler: to hoot (to make the cry of an owl)
bouc: billy goat; goatee
bouc émissaire: scapegoat (someone punished for someone else's error(s))
boucan: a boucan (“grill”)
boucan: racket, hubbub (loud and unpleasant noise)
boucanage: smoking (as a technique for preserving food)
boucane: smoke; steam
boucaner: to smoke meat
boucanier: buccaneer
boucaque: nigger, sand nigger
boucaud: synonym of crevette grise
bouchage: plugging, blocking; blockage