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encaver: to put in a cellar, store in a cellar
enceindre: to surround
enceint: pregnant
enceinte: pregnant
enceinte: enclosure, compound; interior; speaker, amplifier
enceinte acoustique: speaker system
enceinter: to make pregnant; to knock up
encelluler: to put in a [prison] cell, lock up
encens: incense (a perfume often used in the rites of various religions)
encens d'eau: Peucedanum sylvestre
encensement: incensing
encenser: to cense, to incense; to acclaim, to sing the praises of
encenseur: thurifer
encensier: synonym of romarin
encensoir: censer
encerclement: encircling, surrounding
encercler: circle (draw a circle round); ring round, circle round; surround, encircle
enchainement: post-1990 spelling of enchaînement
enchainer: post-1990 spelling of enchaîner
enchantement: enchantment
enchanter: to enchant
enchanteresse: enchantress; broad-leaved enchanter's nightshade (Circaea lutetiana)
enchanteur: enchanting, entrancing
enchanteur: enchanter
enchanté: enchanted, delighted
enchanté: pleased to meet you
enchantée: pleased to meet you
encharner: to hinge
enchatonnement: embedding a jewel in the collet of a ring
enchatonner: to attach a jewel on the collet of a ring
enchaussener: to lime, to limewash (a hide, so the hairs detach more easily)
enchaussumer: synonym of enchaussener
enchaînement: sequence, series, chain; set of linked steps; resyllabification
enchaîner: to chain, to shackle; to subjugate, to enslave; to put together (in a sequence), to concatenate
enchaînure: enchainment
enchemiser: to put into a folder
enchevaler: synonym of chevaler
enchevaucher: to join by partially covering (tiles, shingles, etc.)
enchevêtrement: tangle, mixture, muddle (of concretes); jumble, labyrinth, chaos (of abstracts)
enchevêtrement quantique: quantum entanglement
enchevêtrer: to tangle up; to entangle, to involve, to implicate; to become tangled; to get tangled up, to get mixed up
enchifrener: to block up (a nose)
enchondrome: enchondroma
enchondrosarcome: enchondrosarcoma
enchâssement: embedding; embeddedness
enchâsser: to enshrine, to put in a display cabinet; to lavish; to set (place inside a case); to put or fix in a chassis
enchère: bid (in a sale, an auction or the card game bridge)
enchères: plural of enchère; an auction (always plural - enchères - when used in this sense in French. shortened from vente aux enchères)
enchérir: to make more expensive; to bid; to make a bid (at auction etc.); to go up (in price), become more expensive
enchérisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of enchérir
enchérisseur: bidder
encierro: encierro
encirer: to wax, wax up (cover or seal with wax)
enclave: enclave; the slot
enclavement: enclavement
enclaver: to shut in, to enclave
enclenchement: engaging; interlock
enclencher: to set off, start up, put in motion
enclin: inclined, prone (with à - to)
enclise: enclisis