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

bruxellois: from Brussels
bruxisme: bruxism
bruyamment: noisily
bruyant: noisy (making a noise)
bruyère: heather, heath, briar; a place of briars, a moor
bryacé: mossy
bryologie: bryology
bryologique: bryological
bryone: bryony
bryophyte: bryophyte
bryozoaire: synonym of ectoprocte
brèche: gap, hole; breach
brème: eggplant, aubergine
brème: bream (fish of the genus Abramis)
brève: a brief piece of information or news (as opposed to the headline); short vowel; breve; pitta; any bird belonging to the passerine family Pittidae
bréchet: keel (of a bird); human sternum
bréhaigne: sterile
brési: Salted, dried, and smoked beef, originally from the Jura region.
brésil: brazil (wood)
brésilien: Brazilian Portuguese
brésilien: of Brazil; Brazilian
bréviaire: breviary (a book containing prayers and hymns); go-to book
brévium: brevium
brêle: stupid or incompetent person; imbecile
brême: eggplant; aubergine
brûlage: burning
brûlant: burning
brûle-gueule: a small tobacco pipe
brûle-parfum: perfume burner
brûler: to burn; to burn oneself; to pass an obstacle, to blow (through or past), to run; to be boiling, to be very close to the answer
brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts: to burn the candle at both ends (to do things in excess, to engage in too much work or too much pleasure (including spending money), or both)
brûler la politesse: to give someone the slip, to slip away from
brûler les lèvres: to be on someone's lips, to be nagging [with à ‘someone’] (of a question)
brûler les étapes: to jump the gun, to cut corners, to go too fast, to get ahead of oneself
brûler ses vaisseaux: to burn one's boats (to cut oneself off from all chance of retreat in order to commit to a course of action)
brûlerie: coffee-roasting plant (the place); distillery
brûleur: burner (someone that burns something); burner (equipment for burning)
brûlis: swidden, woodland exposed to slash and burn; slash and burn technique
brûlot: fireship; scathing report; coffee served with alcohol or certain spices; an insect of the family Ceratopogonidae; noseeum, gnat
brûlure: burn (to the skin)
brûlure indienne: Indian sunburn
brûlures d'estomac: heartburn, pyrosis (burning sensation due to reflux)
brûlé: burnt, burned
brünichite: apophyllite
bsartek: well done
bte: abbreviation of boîte
buanderie: laundry (room); laundrette
buandier: laundryman
bubale: bubale
bubon: bubo
bubonique: bubonic
buccal: buccal (of, relating to, or lying in the mouth)
buccin: whelk (any one of numerous species belonging to family Buccinidae, edible clams, such as whelks and their relatives); buccina (curved brass instrument)
buccinateur: buccinator
bucco-dentaire: orodental (of the mouth and teeth)
bucco-génital: alternative spelling of buccogénital
buccogénital: orogenital
buccopharyngé: buccopharyngeal
bucentaure: bucentaur
buche: post-1990 spelling of bûche