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4,677 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

rat d'eau: water vole
rat d'hôtel: one who steals from hotels
rat d'égout: sewer rat
rat de bibliothèque: bookworm (avid reader, particular one who frequents libraries)
rat de bois: possum / opossum (namely, the Virginia opossum: Didelphis virginiana)
rat gris: The brown rat.
rat musqué: muskrat
rat noir: black rat (Rattus rattus)
rat taupier: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius)
rat-garou: wererat
ratafia: ratafia
ratage: failure
ratahan: Ratahan (Austronesian language)
ratatiner: to shrink, shrivel; to shrivel (up); to badly damage, wreck, to destroy; to kill; to soundly defeat; to cream
ratatiné: shrivelled, wizened
ratatouille: a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients; beating, whipping
rate: spleen
rate-garou: female wererat
rater: to miss (an event or a thing); to screw up; to mess up; to fail to fire; to misfire; to fail
rater le coche: to miss the boat, to miss the bus
rater un épisode: to miss something
ratichon: synonym of prêtre (“priest”)
raticide: rat poison
ratier: mouser (cat)
ratification: ratification
ratifier: to ratify (give formal consent to)
ratio: ratio
ratiocinatif: ratiocinative
ratiocination: ratiocination
ratiociner: to deftly reason
ration: ration
rational: rationale (religious clothing)
rationalisation: rationalisation
rationaliser: to rationalize; to streamline (to make more efficient)
rationalisme: rationalism
rationaliste: rationalist
rationaliste: rationalist
rationalité: rationality
rationnaire: person who receives a ration
rationnel: rational; reasonable; rational (of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers)
rationnellement: rationally; logically
rationnement: rationing (controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel)
rationner: to ration; ration out
rationné: rationed
ratissage: raking, combing, sweeping; search, search and sweep (operation), ratissage
ratisser: to rake (to use a rake to collect things together); to comb through, to comb over, to fine-tooth comb, to trawl
ratisser large: to cast one's net wide
ratissoire: A rake; a raker
ratite: ratite
ratière: mouser (cat, female); rat-trap; the clink, slammer
raton: young rat; raccoon
raton: A North African, especially if Algerian: a greaseball, a dirty wog.
raton laveur: raccoon
ratonnade: racially-motivated violence
ratonner: to engage in racist attacks
rattachement: attachment
rattacher: to attach, fix, fix on, put on, link; to post (an employee); to reattach, put back on; to connect back (to); to join together, put together
rattachisme: rattachism
rattiédir: to rewarm
rattrapage: act of catching; catching up; recovery