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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

cactacée: cactus
cactiforme: cactiform
cactus: cactus
cactée: cactus
cadastral: cadastral
cadastralement: cadastrally
cadastre: cadastre (a register showing details of land ownership and value)
cadavre: corpse, cadaver; empty bottle, empty
cadavre exquis: exquisite corpse
cadavéreux: cadaverous
cadavérine: cadaverine
cadavérique: cadaveric; cadaver-like (deathly pale)
caddie: shopping cart (conveyance used to carry items while shopping); caddie
caddy: caddy; golf cart; shopping trolley, shopping cart
cade: western prickly juniper, cade (Juniperus oxycedrus)
cade: a cask or barrel; a cubic metre
cade: a type of chickpea pancake popular in Toulon
cadeau: present, gift
cadeau du ciel: godsend
cadeau empoisonné: poisoned chalice, more of a curse than a blessing, something that does more harm than good
cadenas: padlock
cadenasser: to padlock
cadenassé: locked up
cadence: cadence; rate
cadence rompue: deceptive cadence, interrupted cadence
cadencer: to cadence
cadencé: rhythmic
cadenette: lovelock (plait of hair that hangs down and is worn apart); dreadlock
cadet: younger, youngest
cadet: cadet, student officer; junior sportsperson, young player; a younger sibling
cadet des soucis de: the least of (someone's) concerns, the least of (someone's) worries, the least thing on (someone's) mind
cadi: qadi (civil judge in certain Islamic countries); judge
cadien: Cajun (of or relating to the Louisiana French ethnic group descending from Acadia, living primarily in southern Louisiana); in poor taste, tacky; lower class, uneducated, and unsophisticated
cadière: French coinage issued in the time of Philippe de Valois, where the monarch is pictured seated
cadjin: alternative spelling of cadien (“Cajun; etc.”)
cadmate: cadmate
cadmiage: electroplating with cadmium
cadmie: cadmia
cadmier: to electroplate with a thin layer of cadmium
cadmium: cadmium
cador: pro; lady-killer
cadrage: framing (position of an image within a frame or border)
cadrage satellitaire: satellite-framing
cadrage verbal: verb-framing
cadran: dial; face (of a clock); alarm clock
cadran lunaire: moondial (instrument for telling time)
cadran solaire: sundial
cadrat: spacer (in typesetting)
cadratin: em
cadre: frame (of a door or picture); backbone (of an organization); box, square (on a printed page); executive, middle manager; scope, framework
cadrer: to fit (go well together); to frame (put into the field of vision)
cadreur: cameraman
cadriciel: software framework
cadré: on target
caduc: deciduous (relating to trees that shed their leaves in winter); obsolete; null and void
caducifolié: deciduous
caducité: caducity; transience
caducée: caduceus
caduque: decidua
cadurcien: of Cahors