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5,162 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

tahitien: Tahitian (language)
taie: pillowcase, pillowslip; leucoma
taie d'oreiller: pillowcase
tailard: personne anglaise (péjoratif) (obsolète)
taillable: cuttable; malleable
taillable: subject to the land tax of taille
taillable: someone required to pay the taille; a commoner taxpayer
taillable et corvéable à merci: heavily taxed; enslaved to do onerous work; exploitable endlessly; at the beck and call of; at one's bidding
taillader: to slash (e.g. with knife etc.)
taillanderie: edge tool industry
taillandier: edge tool maker
taille: the act of cutting, pruning, trimming; size; waist; waistline; a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage
taille de guêpe: wasp waist (giving an hourglass figure)
taille-crayon: pencil sharpener
taille-douce: line engraving, copper-plate engraving (a type of engraving on copper plates where the design is made up of a series of lines); print made on a board engraved using this method
tailler: to cut; to sharpen; to do one, to clear off
tailler dans le gingas: to lie
tailler dans le gras: to trim, to remove what's superfluous
tailler des croupières: to put a spoke in (someone's) wheel, to throw a spanner in the works of, to throw a wrench in the works of
tailler en pièces: to tear to pieces; to smash to smithereens, to crush
tailler le bout de gras: to shoot the breeze, to chew the fat, to chat
tailler une bavette: to shoot the breeze, to chew the fat, to chat
tailler une pipe: to give head, to blow
tailleur: tailor; suit; clipping of tailleur de pierre (“stonemason”)
tailleur de pierre: stonemason (one who works with stone)
taillis: coppice
tailloir: abacus (uppermost member of the capital of a column)
taillé: cropped, sharpened; per bend sinister
tain: silvering; aluminium foil
tainpe: slut, whore
taire: to be quiet, to be silent; to shut up (oneself), to be quiet, to fall silent, to stop talking; to keep (a matter) quiet, to keep secret, not to say
taiseux: quiet, short of words
taiseux: quiet person
tajine: alternative spelling of tagine
takfiri: takfiri
takfiri: takfiri
takfirisme: takfirism
takfiriste: takfirist
tako-tsubo: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
talapoin: talapoin (monkey in the genus Miopithecus); Buddhist monk or priest, particularly in Burma or Thailand
talc: talc
talectomie: talectomy
talent: a talent (an obsolete unit of weight or money); a talent, a gift, a knack
talentueusement: precociously, with talent
talentueux: talented
taler: taler (currency)
taler: to damage (a fruit)
taleth: tallith
taliban: Taliban
talion: retaliation; a punishment equal to the injury sustained
talionesque: retaliatory
talisman: talisman
talismanique: talismanic
talith: tallit
talkie: synonym of talkie-walkie
talkie-walkie: walkie-talkie
talladetes: pieces of pumpkin, prunes, peaches and watermelon used to make arrop i talladetes
tallith: alternative spelling of talith
talmellier: baker (person who bakes and sells bread)
talmouse: piece of pastry made with cream, flour, cheese, eggs and butter; slap, punch