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cancériser: to become cancerous
cancérogenèse: carcinogenesis
cancérogénicité: carcinogenicity
cancérologie: oncology
cancérologique: oncologic; oncological
cancérologue: oncologist
candela: candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
candeur: purity; confidence; honesty; candour
candi: candied
candi: sugar candy; an exhausted man; candy
candidat: candidate
candidater: to put oneself forward as a candidate, to stand as a candidate, to apply
candidature: application; candidacy
candidature spontanée: speculative application
candide: candid, frank; naive, overtrusting
candide: a candid person
candide: a mountain clouded yellow (Colias phicomone), a butterfly of Europe
candidement: confidently; purely, in a pure way; candidly
candidose: candidiasis
candir: to crystallize; to cover with crystallized sugar
candisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of candir
candéla: candela
candélabre: candelabrum
cane: duck (female duck)
canelé: canelé (type of pastry made with pancake batter)
canepetière: little bustard
caner: to die.
caneton: duckling, duckling (male)
canette: can, tin, tin can
canette: duckling (female)
canevas: canvas; tapestry; framework; network
cange: small boat used on the Nile
cangue: cangue
caniche: poodle (dog)
caniculaire: scorching
canicule: the dog days of late summer; heat wave, hot spell (regardless of the date, and especially when posing a health risk)
canidé: a member of the Canidae family, canid
canidés: Canidae; plural of canidé
canif: clasp-knife, penknife
canin: canine
canine: canine, cuspid
caninoïde: caninoid
caninoïde: a caninoid
canique: a playing marble; testicle
canitie: white hair
caniveau: gutter
cannabinique: cannabic
cannabis: cannabis
cannage: caning (working with canes, cane craftwork)
canne: cane; stick; peg; leg; rod; fishing rod; reed, cattail; sugar cane
canne blanche: cane (white stick used by blind people)
canne des tranchées: trench stick
canne à pêche: fishing rod (rod used for angling)
canne à sucre: sugar cane (species of grass (Saccharum officinarum) whose sap is a source of sugar)
canneberge: cranberry (berry)
cannelier: Cinnamomum verum, the true cinnamon tree; any of several plants in the genus Cinnamomum
cannelle: cinnamon (the spice)
cannelle: cinnamon (in colour)
cannelloni: cannelloni
cannelure: groove (linear indent); striation (on a plant); flute (on a column)