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

telson: telson
tempe: temple
tempeh: tempeh
template: template
temple: temple (for worship); Protestant church; hall
temple de la renommée: hall of fame
templet: instrument for keeping the tissue stretched when using a loom.; a cartwright's tool
templier: Templar
templier: Templar
tempo: tempo
temporaire: temporary
temporairement: temporarily
temporal: temporal
temporalité: temporality, sense of time; time frame, timescale, time reference
temporel: time, temporal, time-related; temporal, worldly
temporellement: temporally
temporisateur: temporizing
temporisation: temporizing (playing for time); timer (launching an action after a given delay)
temporiser: to temporize, stall
temps: time (in general); weather; tense
temps additionnel: injury time
temps de chien: bad weather, filthy weather, dreadful weather, awful weather
temps de cochon: bad weather, filthy weather, dreadful weather, awful weather
temps de curé: splendid weather
temps de loup: bad weather, dirty weather, filthy weather, dreadful weather, awful weather
temps de parole: speaking time
temps de réaction: reaction time (interval between the reception of a stimulus and the initiation of a response)
temps faible: afterbeat
temps fort: downbeat (accented beat at the beginning of a bar); highlight
temps libre: free time
temps long: longue durée (long period of time during which social processes develop or social structures evolve)
temps mort: time-out (in sports); dead time
temps primaire: primary tense
temps primitif: principal part of a verb (any of the forms of a verb which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived)
temps propre: proper time
temps secondaire: secondary tense
temps universel coordonné: Coordinated Universal Time
temps verbal: tense
tempérament: temperament, character; mollifying, tempering
tempérance: temperance (habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions)
tempérant: temperant, temperate, moderate
température: temperature
température ambiante: room temperature
tempérer: to temper, to soothe, to assuage
tempéré: temperate
tempérément: temperately
tempétueusement: tempestuously
tempétueux: tempestuous, stormy; storm-racked; agitated by a storm
tempête: storm, tempest
tempête dans un verre d'eau: tempest in a teapot, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing
tempête de neige: snowstorm (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
tempête de sable: sandstorm (strong wind carrying clouds of sand)
tempête hivernale européenne: European windstorm
tempêter: to rant, to rave, kick up a fuss
tenable: tenable
tenace: long-lasting; tenacious, persistent
tenacement: tenaciously, persistently
tenaille: pincer (tool); tenaille
tenailler: to torture with pincers; to torment
tenancier: manager (of a hotel, restaurant, etc.)