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récapitulation: recapitulation
récapituler: to recapitulate, sum up
récemment: recently
récent: recent
réceptacle: receptacle; repository; recipient
récepteur: receiver
réceptif: receptive
réception: reception (action of receiving); reception (welcoming); reception (place at the entrance of a business)
réceptionnaire: receiving (goods in) clerk
réceptionner: to take delivery of; to receive
réceptionniste: receptionist
réceptivité: receptivity, receptiveness; susceptibility
récessif: recessive
récession: recession
réchapper: to come through (survive something perilous)
réchaud: stove; burner
réchauffe: reheat, afterburning (in an aero engine)
réchauffement: reheating, heating, warming
réchauffement climatique: global warming
réchauffer: to reheat; to heat up, warm up
réchauffer le cœur: to warm (someone's) heart
réchauffer un serpent dans son sein: to nourish a viper in one's bosom
réchauffiste: warmist
récidive: relapse, reoccurrence; reoffending, recidivism
récidiver: to reoffend, to recidivate; to relapse, to recur
récidivisme: recidivism
récidiviste: repeat offender
récidiviste: reoffending
récif: reef (rocks at or near surface of the water)
récif corallien: coral reef
récifal: reefal, reef
récipiendaire: recipient, receiver (someone who receives, e.g. an award)
récipient: container, vessel, recipient
réciprocable: reciprocable
réciprocation: reciprocation
réciprocité: reciprocity
réciproque: reciprocal; converse; interchangeable
réciproque: reverse; reciprocal; converse
réciproquement: reciprocally; one another; vice versa; conversely
récit: recital; account, narrative, tale; swell division of a pipe organ
récit de voyage: travel story; travel writing
récital: recital
récitant: narrator, reciter
récitatif: recitative
récitation: recitation (act of reciting, material recited)
réciter: to recite, to declaim; to review, revise (something previously written or learned)
réclamant: claimant
réclamation: claim; complaint
réclame: reclaim (a falconry call and sign for the bird of prey to return to the falconer)
réclame: a small, commercial advertisement, originally in the printed press; all similar advertising
réclamer: to protest; to object; to claim, reclaim; to demand
réclusion: reclusion
récognitif: recognitive
récoler: to collate, compare, review, verify
récollet: Recollect (member of the Frères mineurs récollets
récolte: harvest
récolter: to harvest (to reap)
récolter ce que l'on a semé: to get a taste of one's own medicine; to have had it coming
récolteur: reaper; harvester
récompense: reward, recompense; prize, award