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

catalogue: a systematical catalogue
catalogue raisonné: catalogue raisonné
cataloguer: to catalogue; to pigeonhole
catalpa: catalpa
catalpique: catalpic
catalyse: catalysis
catalyser: to catalyze
catalyseur: catalytic
catalyseur: catalyst
catalysé: catalyzed
catalytique: catalytic
catalytiquement: catalytically
catamaran: catamaran, a twinhulled ship or boat
catanais: of Catania
catananche: Cupid's dart (Catananche caerulea)
cataphase: cataphasis
cataphatique: cataphatic
cataphote: reflector (on a bicycle etc)
cataphractaire: cataphract (soldier covered with a cataphract)
cataplasme: cataplasm, poultice
cataplasme sur une jambe de bois: something as useful as tits on a bull, as useful as a chocolate teapot, as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, as useful carrying coals to Newcastle, something of no earthly use (something completely useless and inefficient)
catapultage: catapulting
catapulte: catapult
catapulter: to catapult
catapulteur: catapulter
cataracte: cataract (waterfall); cataract (eye disease)
catarrhal: catarrhal
catarrhe: catarrh
catarrheux: catarrhal
catarrhinien: catarrhine
catarrhinien: catarrhine
catastrophe: catastrophe
catastropher: to stagger (a person, with an announcement)
catastrophique: catastrophic
catastrophiquement: catastrophically
catastrophisme: doomsaying (having dire predictions); catastrophism
catastrophiste: catastrophist
catathrénie: catathrenia
catatonie: catatonia
catatonique: catatonic
catatrufa: smooth golden fleece (Urospermum dalechampii)
catch: wrestling; professional wrestling
catcher: to wrestle; to catch; to catch, get (understand fully)
catcheur: professional wrestler (fighter in simulated wrestling)
catharanthe rose: rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) (L.) G. Don.)
cathare: Catharist
cathare: Cathar
catharisme: Catharism: a Christian religious sect of the High Middle Ages
cathariste: Catharist
catharsis: catharsis
cathartique: cathartic
cathayen: Cathayan
catherine: chamber pot
catherinette: a girl of 25 years old who is unmarried by St Catherine's Day (25th November)
catherinien: Catherinian
catho: Catholic, often one who is overly pontifical; abbreviation for Institut Catholique de Paris
catho: Catholic
cathode: cathode
cathodique: cathodic; adjectival form of tube cathodique (CRT)
cathodiquement: cathodically