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

brugnonier: nectarine tree
bruine: drizzle (light rain)
bruiner: to drizzle
bruineux: drizzling
bruire: to make a low noise; to rustle; to rattle; to roar
bruissement: rustle; murmur
bruisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of bruire
bruit: a noise; a rumor or report
bruit de couloir: rumor
bruit de fond: background noise
bruitage: sound effect, foley
bruiter: to make noise; to do the sound effects, produce foley
bruiteur: foley artist
bruitiste: noisy; noise
bruits de bottes: signs that a war is brewing, threat of impending war; signs that authoritarianism is on the rise
brulant: post-1990 spelling of brûlant
bruler: post-1990 spelling of brûler
brulot: post-1990 spelling of brûlot
brumaire: Brumaire (the second month of the French Republican Calendar)
brumal: brumal
brume: mist, haze, fog
brumer: to fog, to be foggy
brumeusement: mistily, hazily
brumeux: misty, hazy, foggy
brumisateur: atomizer, spray
brun: brown (color/colour)
brun: brown (color/colour); brown-haired person
brunante: dusk, twilight
brunch: brunch
bruncher: to brunch; to have brunch
brune: brunette (woman with brown hair)
brunelle: selfheal, heal-all
brunelle à feuilles hastées: hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort (Prunella hastifolia Brot.)
brunette: brunette
bruni: tanned, burnished
brunir: to brown (to become brown); to burnish (to polish gold or silver etc)
brunissage: burnishing; browning
brunissement: browning (of food, foliage etc)
brunisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of brunir
brunisseur: burnisher
brunissoir: burnisher
brunoise: brunoise
brunâtre: brownish (somewhat brown)
brusc: butcher's broom (and other plants in the genus Ruscus); a type of heather used in making brooms; gorse
brushing: blow-dry
brusler: obsolete spelling of brûler
brusque: abrupt (sudden or hasty); curt
brusquement: suddenly; sharply, jerkily; brusquely, abruptly, bluntly
brusquer: to rush (an operation); to browbeat
brusquerie: brusqueness
brusquet: a little brusque
brut: gross; raw; brut, strong
brut de décoffrage: plain, unsurfaced, exposed; rough around the edges
brutal: brutal
brutal: person who acts brutally
brutalement: brutally
brutaliser: to ill-treat, brutalise
brutalité: brutality
brute: brute (animal lacking in reason, intelligence and sensibility); person without reason, person devoid of reason; bully (one who imposes his will on others using violence)
bruxellisation: brusselization