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

bulletin de paie: payslip, pay stub
bulletin de salaire: payslip, pay stub
bulletin de vote: ballot
bulletin info: news bulletin
bulletin scolaire: report card, school report
bulletiner: to register periodicals each time they come out
bullshit: bullshit
bullshitter: to tell lies, to deceive
bulot: whelk (certain edible sea snails); imbecile, idiot
bummer: to bum (ask for something for free)
bungalow: bungalow
bunker: bunker
bunker: bunker
buphthalme: oxeye of the genus Buphthalmum
buplèvre: bupleurum
bupreste: a buprestid
buraliste: tobacconist; newsagent
bure: frieze (cloth); habit (monk's robe)
bureau: desk; office (room); ticket office; the staff of an office; office; an administrative unit
bureau d'études: engineering consultancy
bureau de change: bureau de change, currency exchange (place where foreign currency can be exchanged)
bureau de poste: post office (place)
bureau de tabac: tobacconist's
bureau de vote: polling station
bureaucrate: bureaucrat
bureaucratie: bureaucracy (structure and regulations in place to control activity)
bureaucratique: bureaucratic
bureaucratiquement: bureaucratically
bureaucratisation: bureaucratization
bureaucratiser: to bureaucratize
bureaucratisme: the excessive use, or the abuse of bureaucracy
bureautique: office automation, commercial data processing
burelle: bar
burette: oilcan; burette; cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist
burger: synonym of hamburger (“burger”)
burger smashé: smash burger
burgonde: Burgundian
burgonde: Burgundian (language)
burgrave: burgrave
burin: burin, graver
burinage: carving; chiselling
buriner: to chisel
buriné: chiselled
burkinabè: Burkinabé, from Burkina Faso
burkinabé: Burkinabe, from Burkina Faso
burkini: a burkini
burle: joke, jeer
burle: wind from the north blowing on the French Central Massif
burler: to blow (of the wind known as burle)
burlesque: burlesque; parodic; parodical
burlesque: burlesque; parody
burlesquement: comically; farcically
burlingue: synonym of bureau (“office”); synonym of bureau (“desk”)
burne: ball, testicle
burnous: burnoose
burné: manly, virile; ballsy, daring, bold, courageous
buron: a traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof
burqa: burqa
bursal: tax (especially an extraordinary tax)
bursiforme: bursiform (shaped like a purse or bag)