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3,284 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

grailler: to nosh (eat); to blow the horn while hunting; to screech (of a raven or crow); to charge a gun with ammunition
graillon: grilled flavor; taste or scent of burnt grilled meat or fat; leftovers from a meal, collected and resold
grain: grain; a small amount, a bit
grain: squall, thunderstorm
grain de beauté: mole; beauty spot
grain de sel: two cents (one's opinion or thoughts)
grainage: grainage
graine: seed (fertilized grain); dick, penis
grainer: to granulate; to seed
graines de paradis: synonym of maniguettes: grains of paradise
graineterie: grain / seed selling (or shop)
grainetier: seed / grain merchant
graineur: alternative spelling of greneur
grainothèque: seed library
grais: archaic spelling of grès
graissage: greasing; lubrication
graisse: grease; fat
graisse viscérale: visceral fat
graisser: to grease, oil, lubricate; to smear
graisser la patte: to bribe, grease someone's palm
graisser sa caloquinte: to beat
graisseux: greasy; fatty, oily
graminicide: graminicide
graminée: grass (true grass, species of Poaceae)
grammaire: grammar (the study of the morphological and syntactic rules of a language); a grammar textbook
grammaire comparée: comparative linguistics
grammaire de dépendance: dependency grammar
grammaire générative: generative grammar
grammaire universelle: universal grammar
grammairien: grammarian
grammatical: grammatical
grammaticalement: grammatically
grammaticalisation: grammaticalization
grammaticaliser: to grammaticalize
grammaticalité: grammaticality
grammatique: grammatical
grammatiste: grammatist
gramme: gram (unit of mass)
gramophone: gramophone
gramscien: Gramscian
gramscisme: Gramscism, Gramscianism
gramsciste: Gramscian
grand: big; tall; grown up, big; great (i.e. important, outstanding, noble, fine, renowned); grand
grand: grown-up
grand Dieu: good heavens! good grief! goodness me!
grand air: open air
grand amiral: (DRC) Highest rank in the navy, grand admiral
grand axe: major axis (longest diameter of an ellipse, running through the center and foci, with its ends being the widest points of the shape)
grand bien te fasse: good for you
grand bien vous fasse: good for you
grand blanc: a white person who is wealthy enough to own a plantation; synonym of grand requin blanc
grand brûlé: person with severe burns, badly burned person
grand campagnol: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius)
grand changement vocalique: Great Vowel Shift
grand chelem: grand slam (the winning of all the major or specified events); grand slam
grand chemin: main road (major road linking two cities under the Ancien Régime) ; highway
grand clerc: rocket scientist
grand dauphin: bottlenose dolphin; especially the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
grand de ce monde: influential figure, influential person
grand ensemble: housing estate, new town