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

tortue verte: green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
tortueusement: tortuously
tortueux: tortuous, winding, windy, twisting, twisty; convoluted
torture: torture
torturer: to torture (to intentionally inflict severe pain on someone, usually with the aim of forcing confessions or punishing them); to torture
torve: sinister, menacing; having a squint as exhibited by a sufferer of strabismus
tory: Tory
tory: Tory
torysme: Toryism
toréador: toreador (bullfighter)
toréer: to fight a bull, in bullfighting
toréro: torero; toreador
tos: a Portuguese
tos: a first-year student at the École polytechnique
toscan: Tuscan (of, from or relating to Tuscany, Italy)
total: total; perfect
total: total
totalement: totally
totalisant: synonym of totalitaire
totalisateur: totalizator
totalisation: totalization
totaliser: to total (add up several numbers)
totalitaire: totalitarian; total, complete
totalitarisme: totalitarianism
totalité: totality, entirety
totem: totem
totipotence: totipotency
totipotent: totipotent
tototte: dummy, pacifier
totémique: totemic
totémisme: totemism
touaille: linen, especially used in making towels or cloths; towel; tablecloth; a cloth used to adorn an altar in a church; a woman's hairstyle involving a towel wrapped around the head
touareg: Tuareg
touareg: Tuareg (language)
toub: mud brick, adobe
toubab: white person
toubib: medic, doc
toucan: toucan
touchable: touchable
touchant: about, relating to
touchant: touching, moving (of the emotions)
touchau: touchstone (stone)
touche: touch; key (on keyboard), button; fingerboard; sideline
touche morte: dead key
touche-à-tout: jack of all trades
toucher: the act of touching (see below); a way of touching; the sense of touch, tactility
toucher: to touch (physically); to affect; to receive, to get; to earn (money); to try, to try out; to know a thing or two
toucher de l'herbe: to touch grass
toucher du bois: to knock on wood
toucher du doigt: to touch with one's finger; to be within reach of, to be very close to; to touch on
toucher la corde sensible: to hit a raw nerve, to touch a nerve
toucher le fond: to hit rock bottom, to hit the rocks, to bottom out; to sink to a new low
toucher sa bille: to know one's stuff, to know one's onions
toucher terre: to come ashore, to land; to touch down, to land
toucher un mot: to have a word
toucher à sa fin: to draw to a close, to come to an end, to near the end, to near completion
touchette: fret (on a guitar etc); an invalid touch; a slight bump with another car; a touch of the hooves on the obstacle that does not make it fall
touché: A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
toudis: always
touer: to tug or tow a ship, to haul a barge