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ramon: broom
ramonage: chimney-sweeping
ramonde: Ramonda
ramonde des Pyrénées: Pyrenean violet (Ramonda myconi (L.) Rchb.)
ramoner: to sweep a chimney; to fuck
ramoneur: chimney sweep
rampant: rampant; tilted; humbly inclined; extending over the ground rather than climbing upward; base; common
rampe: ramp, slope; banister; balustrade, parapet, railing; lightbar
rampe d'accès: access ramp
rampe de lancement: launch pad
ramper: to crawl, worm (along); to creep
ramure: treetop, branches; antler
raméal: ramal
ramée: an aggregate of green twigs or branches
rancart: scrap heap
rance: rancid
rancio: the soft, mellow quality acquired by brandy as it is aged
rancir: to go rancid
rancissement: rancidity
rancisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of rancir
rancoeur: nonstandard spelling of rancœur
rancune: resentment, grudge; rancour
rancuneux: resentful
rancunier: resentful, grudgy (inclined to resent when wronged, who tends to harbor resentment when wronged)
rancœur: resentment, rancor
rand: rand (currency)
rando: walk, trek (for pleasure)
random: random (apropos of nothing, lacking context)
random: random person; random guy, rando
randomisation: randomisation
randomiser: to randomize
randonner: to hike, trek, walk around
randonneur: walker, hiker; backpacker
randonnée: walk, ramble, trek (for pleasure)
rang: row or line of things placed side-by-side; rank or position in a series or hierarchy; a knitting course; a series of land plots narrower than deep, running perpendicular to a river or road; the road serving such a series of plots
rangement: place where things are tidied away, e.g. cupboards, shelves, etc.; action of tidying things away
ranger: to order, to arrange; to put away, to put aside, to stack away, to stow; to park (a car); to go along
ranger: a ranger, one who looks after a region
ranger dans une case: to put someone in a box, to pigeonhole someone
rangé: tidy, neat; orderly, quiet, uneventful; pitched
rangé des bécanes: synonym of rangé des voitures
rangé des voitures: settled down, back on the straight and narrow, older and wiser
rangée: row (line of objects); rank
raniculture: frog cultivation, frog rearing
ranidé: a true frog
ranimation: reanimation
ranimer: to revive; to animate; to motivate, to rally (troops)
ranin: ranine, froglike
ranivore: Ranivore. Frog-eating. An example is that the bird-of-prey, the African Marsh Harrier is known as the busard ranivore in French
ranulaire: ranular
ranule: ranula
ranz: only used in ranz des vaches
ranz des vaches: ranz des vaches
rançon: ransom; flipside, other side of the coin
rançongiciel: ransomware (malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom)
rançonnage: ransoming
rançonner: to ransom
rançonneur: ransoming
rançonneur: ransomer
raout: rout (large evening party, soirée); gathering, assembly