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

charognard: scavenging
charogne: carrion; asshole, bastard
charolais: of Charols
charpente: framework; build (of person); structure (of a book, etc.)
charpenter: to tailor, to tailor make
charpenterie: carpentry; carpenter's workshop
charpentier: carpenter
charpentier: carpentry
charpie: lint; shred
charrer: to speak; to talk
charretier: cart, wagon
charretier: carter, wagoner
charrette: charette (small two-wheeled cart); period of intense work (to meet a deadline)
charrette des condamnés: tumbril
charrette à bras: handcart (cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand)
charretée: cartload
charrier: to carry, carry along; to transport (cargo etc.); to pull someone's leg, to rib (to tease someone in a good-natured way)
charriot: post-1990 spelling of chariot
charrière: a path, way, route, or road, large enough to fit carriages, chariots, carts, wagons, etc.
charroi: cartage (transport by cart etc., money paid for such transport)
charron: wheelwright
charroyage: carting, cartage (transport by cart etc)
charroyer: to cart (to transport by cart or waggon)
charrue: plough; snow plow (US), snow plough (UK)
charte: charter
charter: a charter flight; a charter plane; a charter pilot
chartisme: Chartism
chartiste: a person who studies old charters; a student or an alumnus of École Nationale des Chartes; a chartist; a Chartist
chartiste: Chartist
chartrain: of, from or relating to the city of Chartres, the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France
chartre: prison; place of safekeeping
chartreuse: chartreuse (liqueur); Grande Chartreuse; or any Carthusian monastery (a charterhouse)
chartreux: of the Carthusian Order
chartrier: cartulary
chas: eye (of a needle)
chasier: obsolete spelling of casier; alternative spelling of chasière
chasil: chasil
chassable: huntable, chasable
chassalie bois de corail: Chassalia corallioides (Cordem.) Verdc.
chasse: hunt, hunting
chasse au trésor: treasure hunt
chasse aux sorcières: witch-hunt
chasse aux œufs: Easter egg hunt
chasse d'eau: flush (of a toilet etc.)
chasse gardée: private hunting ground; preserve (activity with restricted access)
chasse patate: a pointless chase, wild-goose chase; a group chasing a breakaway that fails to catch it and then gets stuck between the breakaway and the peloton
chasse vieillesse: synonym of faujasie à feuilles de saule (Faujasia salicifolia (Pers.) C. Jeffrey)
chasse à courre: hunting with hounds
chasse à l'homme: manhunt
chasse à la baleine: whaling
chasse-café: chasse-café, pousse-café (small glass of alcohol after coffee)
chasse-neige: snow plow (US), snow plough (UK) (machine for moving snow)
chasselas: Chasselas
chassepot: a breechloading, rapid-fire, long-range rifle used in the French army from 1866 to 1874
chasser: to hunt; to chase; to drive off; to chassé
chasseresse: huntress
chasseur: a hunter; a fighter plane; a servant or attendant; a la façon chasseur, a style of cooking in which meat is cooked with a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine
chasseur de chars: tank destroyer
chasseur de primes: bounty hunter
chasseur de tête: alternative spelling of chasseur de têtes