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

terpinole: terpinol
terpinéol: terpineol
terpolymère: terpolymer
terpène: terpene
terpénique: terpenic
terpénoïde: terpenoid
terra rossa: terra rossa
terraformage: terraforming (planetary engineering)
terraformation: terraforming (planetary engineering)
terraformer: to terraform
terrain: ground, landscape; field (as in soccer field); lot, plot, parcel
terrain d'entente: common ground, middle ground
terrain de basketball: a basketball court
terrain de chasse: hunting ground
terrain de jeu: playground; pitch, court (place where a sporting event takes place)
terrain glissant: minefield
terrain miné: minefield
terrain vague: vacant lot
terrain à bâtir: building plot, building land
terraqué: composed of water and earth; terraqueous
terrarium: terrarium
terrasse: terrace
terrassement: earthworks; embankment
terrasser: to fortify or buttress with a mound of earth; to floor, to bring down (to cause (an opponent) to fall to the ground)); to bring down, to defeat thoroughly
terrassier: navvy (road worker)
terre: earth; soil; land, property (delimited area)
terre Adélie: Adélie Land
terre battue: clay
terre brûlée: scorched earth
terre cuite: terracotta, terra cotta
terre de bruyère: a strongly acidic soil where organic matter decomposes slowly, characteristic of plants such as heather
terre diatomée: diatomaceous earth
terre ferme: terra firma
terre promise: the Promised Land (Israel); a Promised Land, a promised land
terre rare: rare earth, lanthanide
terre à foulon: fuller's earth
terre à terre: down-to-earth
terre à terre: that which is concerned with practical day-to-day life; a pace of a horse
terre à terre: staying close to the shore, coast-hugging
terre-neuve: Newfoundland dog
terre-neuvien: of Newfoundland; Newfoundlander
terre-plein: traffic island, central reservation
terreau: loam, compost; breeding ground, hotbed
terreauter: to compost; to loam
terreneuvien: Terreneuvian (“Newfoundland French”), a dialect of French found on the Island of Newfoundland, in Canada; on the French Shore
terreplatiste: concerning or related to flat-earthism
terreplatiste: flat-earther
terrer: to spread with soil; to crouch down, flatten oneself; to lie low, hide; to go to ground; to hole up
terrestre: soil, earth; Earth
terrestrement: terrestrially
terreur: terror; terrorcore
terreux: earthy
terri: alternative spelling of terril
terrible: terrible; great, excellent
terriblement: terribly; in a way that is terrible; much; a lot
terricole: terricole
terrien: land, earth; Earth; possessing land, earth; landed
terrien: Earthling, Terran (resident or native of the planet Earth); landlubber
terrier: ground, earth, land; enumerating seignorial rights, notably in livre terrier (“land register”)
terrier: hole; earth; (rabbit) hole or burrow; (badger's) sett; terrier (dog)