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7,169 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

sensualisme: sensualism
sensualiste: sensualist
sensualiste: sensualist
sensualité: sensuality
sensuel: sensual (all meanings)
sensuellement: sensually
sensé: sensible, rational
sensément: sensibly, rationally
sent-bon: perfume
sentant: sentient
sente: footpath, track, trail
sentence: sentence; verdict; maxim, saying, adage
sentencieusement: sententiously
sentencieux: sententious
senteur: scent, perfume
sentier: path; pathway
sentier de chèvre: slope, steep path
sentimens: obsolete spelling of sentiments
sentiment: a sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling; an opinion
sentiment du devoir accompli: feeling of accomplishment, feeling of having accomplished one's duty, satisfaction of having seen something through
sentiment du fer: sentiment du fer
sentimental: sentimental
sentimentalement: sentimentally
sentimentaliser: to sentimentalise/sentimentalize
sentimentalisme: sentimentalism
sentimentalité: sentimentality
sentine: bilge (lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates); cesspool, cesspit (wet and filthy place); place of corruption and moral decay
sentinelle: sentinel, sentry, guard
sentir: to smell (to have a certain odor); to taste; to feel (physical perception); to smell of, taste of; to smack of; to indicate, foreshadow
sentir l'écurie: to get the smell of home in one's nostrils, to know one is on the home run, to know one is nearly arrived, nearly back home
sentir le bouc: to stink, to reek
sentir le fagot: to smack of heresy
sentir le roussi: to smell like trouble, not to look good
sentir le sapin: to be coming to an end; to have one foot in the grave; to be on one's last legs
sentir le soufre: to appear volatile, tense, or dangerous
sentir le vécu: to seem true to life, to be a sign that a person has really experienced something in person
sentir passer: to feel something that's physically or emotionally painful
seoir: to be suitable for; to be proper for; to be situated; sit down (see also s’asseoir)
sep: a plough stanchion
sept: seven
sept cents: seven hundred
sept jours sur sept: every day, all the time
sept péchés capitaux: the seven deadly sins
sept.: abbreviation of septembre (“September”): Sept
septain: septet
septaine: a group of seven things, days etc.
septantaine: about seventy
septante: seventy
septante-neuf: seventy-nine
septante-sept: seventy-seven
septantenaire: seventy years old
septantenaire: seventy-year-old
septantenaire: seventieth anniversary
septantième: seventieth
septantième: seventieth
septcentenaire: septicentenary
septcentenaire: septicentenary
septembre: September
septembrisade: the Septembrist massacre
septembriseur: An author of the September Massacres