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fondant: melting; melt in the mouth; stooping, as for prey; describes an eagle, falcon, etc. flying downward
fondant: fondant (all senses)
fondateur: founder
fondation: foundation (act of founding); foundation; foundation (endowed institution or charity)
fondement: foundation; fundament (anus)
fonder: to found
fonderie: foundry
fondeur: cross-country skier
fondeur: owner of a foundry; founder, the iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation in a foundry
fondoir: melting-house (for tallow, suet)
fondouk: hotel, hostel; fonduk
fondre: to melt, melt down, smelt; to melt; to melt away, waste away; to dwindle; to diminish; to blend in, blend into
fondre comme neige au soleil: to shrink at a rate of knots, to melt away (to dwindle or diminish very rapidly)
fondre en larmes: to burst into tears
fondre sur: to swoop down on; to pounce on; to set upon; to fall upon, as a predator upon prey; to move swiftly toward, generally in an attacking manner
fondrière: pothole (hole in a road caused by weathering); quagmire, bog, slough; pitfall; crevasse
fonds: fund, funds; resources; field
fonds commercial: goodwill (the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities)
fonds communs: mutual fund
fonds d'investissement: investment fund
fonds de commerce: business assets, goodwill; stock-in-trade (technique, skill or ability habitually used by a person or an organisation)
fonds de pension: pension fund
fonds de placement: investment fund
fonds de roulement: working capital
fondu: fade
fondu enchaîné: lap dissolve; A dissolve between two images
fondue: fondue
fondue bourguignonne: dice of beef cooked in a caquelon of boiling flavoured oil directly at the table
fondue savoyarde: cheese fondue (served with bread)
fondé: founded
fondé de pouvoir: attorney-in-fact, proxy, authorised representative, authorised signatory
fongibilité: fungibility
fongible: fungible (able to be substituted for something of equal value)
fongicide: fungicide
fongicide: fungicidal
fongicole: fungicolous
fongiforme: fungiform
fongique: fungal
fongistatique: fungistatic
fongite: fungite
fongivore: fungivorous
fongoïde: fungoid, fungiform
fongus: fungus; a kind of tumor that forms on the skin and has a microscopic appearance of a sponge or fungus
fonio: Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa
fontaine: fountain; cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet); standpipe
fontaine Wallace: a type of large cast-iron drinking fountain found in Paris
fontaine de jouvence: fountain of youth
fontaine de lave: lava fountain
fontainerie: the manufacture of fountains or of domestic plumbing
fontainier: a plumber; a person who builds fountains; a turncock
fontanelle: fontanelle
fontange: fontange
fonte: melting, smelting, thawing; cast iron; font
fonte: holster (on saddle)
fonts: church font, as that used for baptism
fonts baptismaux: baptismal font
food truck: food truck; alternative form of foodtruck (restaurant on wheels)
food-court: food court
foodista: foodie
foodtruck: food truck (restaurant on wheels)