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

législativement: legislatively
législatives: legislative elections (from élections législatives)
législatrice: legislator
législature: legislature; term of office, for a legislative body
légiste: jurist; coroner
légistique: legalistic (which concerns the art of making legal texts)
légistique: legistics (art of making legal texts)
légitimation: legitimization
légitime: one's regular sexual or romantic partner (as opposed to a partner with which one is having an affair)
légitime: legitimate
légitime défense: self-defense (right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force)
légitimement: legitimately; justifiably
légitimer: to legitimize
légitimisme: legitimism
légitimiste: legitimist
légitimiste: legitimist
légitimité: legitimacy
léguer: to will, to bequeath; to hand down, pass on (traditions etc.)
légume: vegetable; vegetable, cabbage (someone in a vegetative state); legume; pod; couch potato
légume-racine: root vegetable
légumier: vegetable
légumier: vegetable dish (receptacle)
légumine: legumin
légumineuse: legume
légumineux: leguminous
légumiser: to vegetate, laze about (do nothing)
légumiste: a person who grows vegetables; a vegetarian
légèrement: lightly; slightly
légèreté: lightness (lack of mass), levity
léha: to go
léiomyome: leiomyoma
lémanique: of Léman (Lake Geneva)
lémonal: lemonal
lémonol: lemonol
lémur: lemur (any animal of the prosimians, making up the infraorder Lemuriformes)
lémure: lemure
lémurien: lemur
lénifiant: emollient, soothing
lénifier: to assuage; to lenify
léninien: Leninian
léninisme: Leninism
léniniste: of Lenin; Leninist (relating to Vladimir Lenin)
lénitif: lenitive
lénition: lenition (weakening of consonant articulation)
léonais: Leonese language
léonais: Leonese
léonardien: Leonardian
léonin: lion; leonine; unequal, unjust
léontice: a plant of the genus Leontice, from the Berberidaceae family
léopard: leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus)
léopard de mer: leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)
léopard des neiges: snow leopard (Uncia uncia)
léopard nébuleux: clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
léopard-garou: wereleopard
lépidine: lepidine
lépidodendron: lepidodendron
lépidolite: lepidolite
lépidoptère: lepidopteran
lépidoptère: lepidopteran
lépidosirène: lepidosiren; lungfish