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3,932 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

frugivore: frugivorous
frugivore: frugivore
fruict: archaic spelling of fruit
fruit: fruit
fruit de la passion: passion fruit
fruit de mer: a piece of seafood
fruit du dragon: dragon fruit
fruit défendu: forbidden fruit
fruit sec: dried fruit; dry fruit; lazybones
fruit à coque: nut (a seed possessing a hard shell)
fruit à pain: breadfruit (the large round fruit of the tree Artocarpus altilis)
fruiterie: fruitshop
fruiticulteur: fruit grower
fruitier: fruit-bearing
fruitier: fruitseller
fruitière: female equivalent of fruitier; cheese producer (especially of Gruyère)
fruits de mer: seafood
fruité: fruity (containing fruit or fruit flavoring)
frumentaire: frumentary
frusques: clothes, especially poor quality ones
fruste: rough, uncouth, coarse
frustement: roughly, coarsely
frustrant: frustrating, vexing
frustration: frustration
frustratoire: vexatious
frustratoirement: vexatiously
frustrer: to frustrate, to vex; to wrongly deprive
frustré: frustrated
frutescence: frutescence
frutescent: frutescent
fruticuleux: fruticulose (resembling a little shrub)
fruticée: shrubbery, shrubland
frutiqueux: synonym of frutescent (“frutescent”)
frère: brother (relation, relative); brother (monk); bro, a male comrade or friend
frère d'armes: brother-in-arms, comrade in arms
frère de lait: foster brother
frère de sang: blood brother (unrelated male considered to share a brother-like relationship established by a ceremonial sharing of blood)
frère lai: lay brother (monk who is not (or not yet) a priest); a monk of lesser status, mainly employed for domestic services
frère siamois: Siamese twin
frères ennemis: warring brothers, enemy brothers
frèrâtre: stepbrother (especially an evil one); bad or uncaring brother
frédéricien: Frederician
frégate: frigate (a number of different classes of ships); frigatebird
frégellan: Fregellan
frémir: to quiver; to shiver; to simmer
frémissant: trembling, shaking, quivering; simmering, bubbling
frémissement: quiver, shiver (light shaking movement); a simmering temperature, just below boiling
frémisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of frémir
frémont: ellipsis of gros frémont, a variety of pear (“fruit”)
frénal: frenal
frénateur: braker; moderator
frénésie: frenzy
frénétique: frantic; frenetic
frénétiquement: frantically
fréon: freon
fréquemment: often, frequently
fréquence: frequency (all meanings)
fréquencemètre: frequency meter
fréquent: frequent
fréquentable: respectable