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déchéance: decay; downfall
déci: décilitre
décibel: decibel
décidabilité: decidability
décidable: decidable
décider: to decide; to persuade, convince (someone); to make a decision, to make up one's mind
décideur: policymaker
décidu: deciduous
décidual: decidual
décidément: obviously, really; decidedly
décigrade: decigrade
décigramme: decigram
décikatal: decikatal
décile: decile
décilitre: decilitre
déciller: post-1990 spelling of dessiller
décilliard: vigintillion (10⁶³)
décillion: novemdecillion (10⁶⁰); decillion (10³³)
décimal: decimal
décimalisation: decimalisation
décimaliser: to decimalise; to decimalize
décimateur: decimator (receiver of tithes)
décime: a coin valued at one-tenth of a franc minted prior to 1815; a 10-centime coin, minted up to 1999 and bearing the same value
décimer: to decimate (reduce by one tenth); to decimate (massacre, almost wipe out)
décimilliheure: one hundredth of an hour
décimètre: decimetre (one-tenth of a metre)
décimétrique: decimetric
décirer: to take the wax off
déciseconde: decisecond (one tenth of a second)
décisif: decisive
décision: decision
décisionnaire: decision-making
décisionnel: decisional
décisivement: decisively
décistère: decistere
déclamateur: declaimer
déclamation: declamation; ranting
déclamatoire: declamatory; ranting
déclamatoirement: declamatorily; bombastically
déclamer: to declaim, speak out (against)
déclarable: declarable (for excise duty)
déclaratif: declarative
déclaration: declaration (written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief)
déclaration d'impôts: tax declaration, tax return
déclaration d'intention: declaration of intent, letter of intent (legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized)
déclaration de guerre: declaration of war
déclaration fiscale: tax declaration, tax return
déclaration sur l'honneur: sworn statement, signed statement, affidavit
déclaratoire: declaratory
déclarer: to declare; to declare oneself (to be), to state (one's opinion) that, to come out in favour of/down against; to break out
déclarer forfait: to forfeit, to withdraw; to give up
déclarer sa flamme: to profess one's love, to declare one's love
déclassement: reclassification; decommissioning
déclasser: to relegate (demote); to delist (take off a list); to downgrade
déclassification: declassification
déclassifier: to declassify
déclassifié: declassified
déclassé: an outcast, reject, pariah
déclassé: stricken from the classification, no longer listed; outcast, expelled
déclenchement: onset; outbreak; triggering (action of causing something)