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raide dingue: head over heels in love with, crazy about, completely besotted with
raide mort: stone dead
raidement: stiffly, rigidly; stubbornly
raideur: stiffness, rigidity; steepness
raidillon: slope, steep path
raidir: stiffen (to make stiff)
raidissement: stiffening; tightening
raidisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of raidir
raie: ridge between furrows, balk (an unplowed strip of land); line; scratch, mark; cleft (zone between the buttocks); stripe
raie: ray
raie manta: manta ray (genus Manta)
raifort: horseradish (condiment, plant)
rail: rail
rail de sécurité: guardrail
raille: police informant, rat; police
railler: to mock, taunt, jeer at; to jest
raillerie: mockery, ridicule
railleur: mocking, scoffing
railleur: mocker, scoffer
railleusement: mockingly
railway: railway
raimondin: Raimondine
rain: a raised border on a field or forest that serves as a boundary
raine: frog
rainer: to groove (make a groove in)
rainette: tree frog
rainette crucifère: spring peeper, pinkletink (Pseudacris crucifer)
rainurage: grooving; process of making grooves
rainure: groove
rainurer: to groove (add grooves to)
raiponce: rampion (Campanula rapunculus); rampion (Phyteuma)
raire: to troat, cry, bellow, make noises
raire: the troat or cry of a deer
raisin: grape; a size of paper (having such a watermark); a bright red lipstick
raisin de Corinthe: currant, Zante currant (small dried grape)
raisin sec: raisin
raisiné: a type of conserve made from grapes
raison: reason (cause); reason (mental faculties); common difference (of an arithmetic series); common ratio (of a geometric series)
raison d'État: raison d'état; a state interest, especially when invoked as politically superior to moral or even legal considerations
raison d'être: raison d'être
raison garder: to be reasonable
raisonnable: reasonable, just, fair, consistent, sensible; possessed of reason; resigned
raisonnablement: reasonably; logically; sensibly; without excesses
raisonnement: reasoning (act of reasoning)
raisonnement par l'absurde: proof by contradiction, reductio ad absurdum
raisonner: to reason
raisonneur: argumentative
rajeunir: to rejuvenate; to make young; to take off (years from someone's age) (to make appear younger); to bring back; to send back (remind of a past time); to get younger
rajeunissant: rejuvenating
rajeunissant: rejuvenator
rajeunissement: getting younger; making younger; rejuvenation
rajeunisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of rajeunir
rajout: addition
rajouter: to re-add; to add again; to put back in
rajustage: adjustment
rajustement: adjustment
rajuster: to adjust, readjust, correct; to straighten, tidy (clothes); to straighten one's clothes; to reconcile
raki: raki
ralenti: slow motion
ralentir: to slow down; to abate