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3,347 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

ludion: Cartesian diver
ludique: playful, ludic
ludisme: playfulness
ludois: of Le Lude
ludothèque: toy library, games library
ludovicien: Ludovician
luette: uvula
lueur: glimmer; glow
lueur d'espoir: glimmer of hope
luffa: loofah
luge: luge (sled) (the sport of luge); luge (sport) (the sport of luge); ellipsis of luge de course; sledge, sled (course sur luge, hockey sur luge)
luge de course: luge (tobogganing sport)
luger: to luge
lugeur: luger (someone who competes in the luge)
lugol: an antiseptic solution of iodine and potassium iodide
lugubre: gloomy, mournful, lugubrious
lugubrement: lugubriously
lui: him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object
lui: him, he, it; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject
lui-même: himself, itself
luire: to shine; to glimmer
luisamment: gleamingly, glisteningly
luisance: shine; brightness
luisant: gleaming, glistening
lulu: twintail, pigtail; one of a pair of ponytails on the sides of the head
lumachelle: lumachel
lumbago: lumbago (pain in the lower back)
lumen: lumen (SI unit of measurement); lumen
lumignon: small light; candle end
luminaire: a luminaire, a light fixture
luminance: luminance
luminescence: luminescence
luminescent: luminescent
lumineusement: luminously, brightly
lumineux: bright, luminous
luminisme: Luminarism
luministe: luminarist
luminophore: luminophore
luminosité: brightness; luminosity (the total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted per unit of time by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical objects)
lumitype: lumitype
lumière: light; lumen; traffic light; headlight; headlamp
lumière blanche: white light
lumière bleue: blue light
lumière cendrée: earthshine
lumière visible: visible light
lump: lumpfish
lumpenintelligentsia: alternative spelling of lumpen-intelligentsia
lunaire: lunar; absurd, surreal
lunaison: lunation
lunatique: lunatic
lunatique: moody
lunch: a lunch, (usually light) meal around noon; a light meal with sandwiches, cold cuts, pastry etc. served at a festive reception
luncher: to lunch
lundi: Monday
lundi de Pâques: Easter Monday
lune: the Moon; any natural satellite of a planet; a month, particularly a lunar month
lune de miel: honeymoon (period of time immediately following a marriage); honeymoon, wedding trip (trip taken by a newly wed married couple)
lunetier: glasses maker or vendor
lunetière: synonym of biscutelle
lunette: telescope (refracting telescope); lunette; toilet seat; breastbone; eyeglasses, spectacles