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3,325 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

escarcelle: moneybag (bag, normally with a drawstring, used for holding money)
escargatoire: escargatoire
escargot: snail; slowpoke, slowcoach
escargotière: snail farm
escarmouche: skirmish; dispute; skirmish (small combat)
escarmoucher: to skirmish
escarpe: murderer, killer
escarpe: escarpment
escarpement: steepness (state of being steep); a steep or abrupt slope, an escarpment; severity, harshness
escarper: to steepen, to become steeper; to harden, to become more difficult
escarper: to escalate
escarpin: high-heeled woman's shoe; court shoe
escarpolette: swing (e.g. playground fixture)
escarpé: steep (near-vertical)
escarre: eschar, bedsore
eschatologie: eschatology (system of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death)
eschatologique: eschatological
esche: bait
escher: to bait a hook
escient: wisdom, knowledge
esclaffer: to burst out in laughter
esclandre: scandal; scene, fracas
esclavage: slavery (institution or practice of owning human beings)
esclavager: to enslave
esclavagisme: proslavery
esclavagiste: proslavery
esclavagiste: slaver; slave driver (employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee)
esclave: slave
esclavon: Slavonic
escoffien: Escoffierian
escoffier: to kill
escogriffe: beanpole (lanky man)
escompte: discount
escompter: to discount because of a payment by anticipation; to anticipate, to be in the hope of
escompteur: discounter
escopateur: a garbage man/bin man
escopette: carbine, escopet
escopettier: carabineer
escorte: escort, suite
escorter: to escort; to accompany
escorteur: escort (ship)
escouade: squad, squadron
escourgeon: bere (type of barley)
escrime: fencing (sport)
escrimer: to fence, to do fencing (sport); to apply oneself, to exert oneself
escrimeur: a fencer; someone who participates in the sport of fencing
escrivain: obsolete spelling of écrivain
escrivant: obsolete spelling of écrivant
escroc: crook (a criminal who steals); baddy (evil character)
escroquer: to swindle
escroquerie: swindle, swindling; fraud; racket (dishonest way of making money)
escudet: navelwort
escudo: escudo (currency)
esculape: a medical doctor, physician
esculapien: Aesculapian
esculapien: a medical doctor, physician
esculetine: aesculetin
esculine: esculin
esculique: esculic
esgal: archaic spelling of égal