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6,580 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

matrone: matron; matriarch
matroïde: matroid
matter: alternative spelling of mater
matuche: jailer; prison guard; cop; police officer
maturation: maturation
mature: mature
maturer: to mature
maturité: maturity; baccalaureat (≈ A-level, high school diploma)
maturément: maturely (with maturity)
matutinal: matutinal
matutinalement: matutinally (in the early morning)
maté: maté
matérialisable: materializable
matérialisation: materialization
matérialiser: to realize, to make happen, to materialize (to cause to take physical form); to materialize (to take physical form)
matérialisme: materialism
matérialisme dialectique: dialectical materialism
matérialiste: materialistic
matérialiste: materialist
matérialité: materiality
matériau: material
matériau de construction: building material
matériel: equipment, supplies; hardware
matériel: material
matériellement: materially (with respect to material(s))
maudire: to curse
maudisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of maudire
maudit: damn; cursed; goddam; damn (used in a positive way)
maudition: synonym of malédiction
maufranc: lazy
maugrebleu: bother!, drat!, blow!
maugréer: to grumble
maupassantien: Maupassantian
maupiteux: pitiless; merciless; pitiful
maure: Moorish
mauresque: Moorish
mauricien: Mauritian
mauritanien: Mauritanian
maurrassien: Maurrassian
maurétanien: Mauretanian
mauser: Mauser (gun)
mausolée: mausoleum
maussade: sullen (mood); dull, dreary (landscape, weather etc.)
maussadement: sullenly
maussaderie: sullenness
mautadit: expresses emphasis, similarly to damn in English
mauvais: bad; wrong, incorrect
mauvais coucheur: an awkward customer, a crosspatch, a grouch
mauvais gagnant: sore winner
mauvais garçon: bad boy (man of a rebellious nature, which tends to make him dangerous and/or attractive)
mauvais génie: malus genius (evil spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a bad way)
mauvais perdant: sore loser, poor sport
mauvais sort: curse (supernatural detriment)
mauvais élève: bad pupil, bad student; person or entity that has a bad track record with regard to some social issue
mauvais œil: the evil eye
mauvaise foi: bad faith
mauvaise graine: bad apple
mauvaise herbe: weed (unwanted plant); child, adolescent, young adult or grown person who misbehaves or has been or educated with a wrong moral framework
mauvaise honte: false modesty
mauvaise humeur: bad mood, ill humor