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

cardère à foulon: fuller's teasel (Dispacus fullonum)
careiche: carex, sedge
carence: deficiency, lack, insufficiency; gap
carencer: to cause a deficiency (in someone)
carencro: turkey buzzard, turkey vulture (Cathartes aura); carrion crow; black vulture (Coragyps atratus); Black person
carer: alternative spelling of carrer
caressant: cuddly; affectionate
caresse: caress; stroke
caresser: to stroke; to caress (to move the hand over the surface of); to toy with; to touch up; put the final touches on
caresser dans le sens du poil: to butter up, to soft-soap
caret: loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta); hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
caret: spool, reel; yarn (thread of a rope)
caret: carex, sedge
caret: caret (symbol)
carferry: post-1990 spelling of car-ferry
cargaison: cargo (freight carried by a ship)
cargo: ship designed to carry a cargo
carhaisien: of Carhaix-Plouguer
cari: curry (spice blend and dish)
cariacou: carjacou; whitetail
cariatide: caryatid
caribou: caribou
caribéen: Caribbean
caricatural: caricatural
caricaturalement: ridiculously; grotesquely
caricature: caricature (a pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect)
caricaturer: to caricature
caricaturesque: caricaturesque
caricaturiste: caricaturist
carie: decay (uncountable), cavity (countable) (process or result of bone or teeth being gradually decomposed); rot (process of a plant becoming rotten); rust (disease of cereals in which the grain is replaced by the spores of a reddish-brown fungus in genus Uredo)
carier: to rot, to rot away
carillon: carillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower)
carillonnement: ringing; chiming
carillonner: to ring, chime, peal (of bells); to proclaim loudly, vehemently
carillonneur: carillonist, carillonneur
carinet: navelwort (Umbilicus rupestris)
cariste: forklift operator, forklift driver
caritatif: charitable, (relational) charity
carlin: pug (dog)
carline: carline thistle
carlingue: kelson, keelson; cabin of aircraft
carlisme: Carlism
carliste: Carlist
carliste: Carlist
carlovingien: misconstruction of carolingien; Carlovingian
carmagnole: carmagnole (short jacket fashionable during the French Revolution); carmagnole (lively song and street dance); an old variety of apple
carme: Carmelite, white friar
carmeltazite: carmeltazite
carmentracien: of, from or relating to the village of Charmentray, Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France
carmin: carmine, crimson (having a deep, slightly bluish red colour)
carmin: cochineal, carmine (red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects); carmine, crimson (deep, slightly bluish red); cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae
carminatif: carminative
carminique: carminic
carminé: carmine
carmélite: Carmelite nun
carnage: carnage (all senses)
carnassier: carnivorous
carnation: a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower); skin tone
carnaval: the carnival, last festive occasion before Lent, notably on Shrove Tuesday, marked by a masked parade and/or ball
carnavalesque: carnival