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dur à cuire: tough guy
dura: Dura (extinct Sino-Tibetan language of central Nepal)
durabilité: durability; sustainability (all meanings)
durable: durable; sustainable
durablement: durably
duracine: a variety of peach with firm flesh
dural: dural
duralumin: duralumin
duramen: heartwood; duramen
durancien: Durancian
durant: during, while
durassien: Durassian
duratif: durative (expressing continuing action)
duratif: the durative case
durcir: to harden; to harden, become more serious
durcir le ton: to get tough, to become more severe
durcissement: hardening
durcisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of durcir
durcisseur: hardening (causing hardness)
dure-mère: dura mater
durement: sternly, harshly; with difficulty
durer: to last (for)
dureté: hardness, especially of water; harshness
durian: durian
durillon: callus (hardened skin)
durillonner: "to become hard"; "to grow callous"
durissime: superhard
durite: hose (in a car radiator)
durophagie: durophagy
durène: durene
durée: duration, period, time taken
durée de vie: lifetime, lifespan
dussé: presubject first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of devoir
duumvir: duumvir
duumvirat: duumvirate
duvet: down (soft, fine feathers); down, fuzz (on face, peach, etc); sleeping bag; duvet, continental quilt; eiderdown
duveter: to become downy; covered with down
duveteux: downy (characterized by soft feathers)
duègne: chaperone, duenna
dvorakien: Dvorakian
dyade: dyad
dyadique: dyadic
dynamique: dynamics
dynamique: in motion, dynamic; dynamic, energetic
dynamiquement: dynamically
dynamisation: dynamization, revitalization, boosting, stimulation, invigoration, energization
dynamiser: to dynamize, dynamise (make more dynamic)
dynamisme: dynamism
dynamitage: dynamiting, blasting
dynamiter: to dynamite (blow up with dynamite)
dynamiteur: dynamiter (person); destroyer
dynamo: dynamo
dynamographe: dynamograph
dynamogène: dynamogenic
dynamogénique: dynamogenic
dynamomagnétique: magnetodynamic
dynamomètre: dynamometer
dynamométrie: dynamometry
dynamométrique: dynamometric
dynamométriquement: dynamometrically