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

tapissier: tapestry-maker; upholsterer
tapissière: female equivalent of tapissier; large cart; van, lorry
tapon: bung; stopper; load; shedload
tapotage: tapotage
tapoter: to tap (strike lightly and repeatedly)
tapuscrit: typescript (typewritten material, especially such a copy of a manuscript)
taquet: small piece of wood or metal used to maintain or fix something; cleat; A punch, kick, or slap; a whack
taquin: teasing; playful
taquin: tease
taquine: tease
taquinement: teasingly, playfully
taquiner: to tease
taquiner la muse: to dabble in poetry, to try one's hand at writing poetry
taquinerie: teasing
taquéria: taqueria (a taco restaurant)
tarabiscoté: fussy, florid, very ornate
tarabistouiller: to bother (someone); to stir, toss
tarabuster: to bother (someone)
tarama: taramosalata
tarare: winnow
tarasque: a fearsome legendary dragon-like mythological hybrid from Provence, in southern France, tamed in stories about Saint Martha, such as the one told in the Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (13th century)
tarasque: Tarascan
taratata: taratantara
taraud: tap
tarauder: to tap (a nut); to thread (a screw); to bore into; to torment, to prey on someone's mind
taraxacine: taraxacin
tarbouche: fez, tarboosh
tard: late
tarder: to tarry; to be slow to do something (tarder à faire quelque chose); Used as an impersonal verb with de or que to express impatience.
tardif: late, belated; recent
tardigrade: tardigrade; water bear
tardivement: rather late, tardily; belatedly
tardo-antique: late antique (of or pertaining to Late Antiquity)
tardo-baroque: late Baroque
tardo-gothique: late Gothic
tardo-impérial: late Roman Empire
tardo-médiéval: Late Middle Ages, late medieval
tardo-romantique: late Romantic
tardo-républicain: late Roman Republic
tare: deficiency; defect, vice, flaw; tare (empty weight)
tarentin: Tarentine
tarentin: Tarentine
tarentisme: tarantism
tarentule: tarantula
tarentulisme: synonym of tarentisme
tarer: to spoil; to tarnish; to tare
taret: shipworm
targe: targe, buckler
targette: latch plate
targuer: to claim, boast
targum: targum
targumique: targumic
targumiste: Targumist
tarier: wheatear; stonechat
tarier pâtre: European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
tarif: price (usually of a service)
tarifaire: pricing
tarifer: to fix the price (of)
tarification: price fixing
tarifier: to fix the tariff on