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

camérier: chamberlain
camériste: maid (or similar servant)
caméscope: a camcorder
canadair: waterbomber (firefighting aircraft)
canadianiser: Canadianize (to make Canadian)
canadianisme: Canadianism (word or phrase originated in Canada or with special meaning in Canada)
canadien: Canadian
canado-américain: of Canada and the United States of America; Canado-American, Can-Am
canado-belge: of Canada and Belgium
canaille: rabble, riffraff; rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum; clever person; trickster, prankster
canaille: raffish; scoundrelly; cunning, tricky; mischievous; unruly
canaillerie: prank, mischievous trick, blackguardism; mischief, mischievousness; wickedness, unkind action; deceit
canal: canal; channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
canal banalisé: citizens' band
canal de Panama: Panama Canal (a canal in Panama)
canal déférent: vas deferens
canal nommé: named pipe
canal éjaculateur: ejaculatory duct
canalaire: ductal
canalicule: canalicule
canalisable: canalizable
canalisation: pipe; channeling
canaliser: to channel; to canalise (to direct the flow); to canalise (to render into a canal); to channel (to direct one's efforts)
canamelle: sugarcane
cananéen: Canaanite
canapé: sofa; piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food; nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)
canapé-lit: sofa bed, settee bed
canaque: Kanak
canard: duck (of either sex); drake (male duck); canard, hoax; newspaper; a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict
canard boiteux: lame duck (person or thing that is helpless, inefficient or disabled)
canard brun: mottled duck (Anas fulvigula)
canard d'Amérique: American wigeon
canard de Barbarie: Muscovy duck
canard mandarin: mandarin duck
canard siffleur: Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope)
canarder: to snipe at someone
canardier: a gun used in duck-shooting; a waiter who prepares duck sauces at the customer's table
canardière: punt gun (for shooting wildfowl)
canari: canary (bird from Canary Islands)
canari: a large container used in certain parts of Africa
canarien: Canarian
canaroie: magpie goose
canasson: horse
canasta: canasta
canayen: French Canadian, in opposition to English Canadian.
cancan: gossip (idle talk); cancan (dance)
cancanement: quacking (making the sound of ducks); gossiping
cancaner: to gossip; to quack
cancaneuse: cancan dancer
cancanier: gossiping
canceller: to annul; to cancel
cancer: cancer
cancer vert: (oncology) chloroma
canche: hair grass (of family Poaceae); dump
cancre: blockhead, dunce, dolt; crayfish; pauper
cancrelat: cockroach
cancéreux: cancerous
cancérigène: carcinogenic (causing or tending to cause cancer)
cancérigènement: carcinogenically
cancérisation: cancerization