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

travailleur: hard-working, diligent
travailleur: worker, one who works
travailleur du savoir: knowledge worker
travailleur du sexe: sex worker
travailleur immigré: guest worker, migrant worker
travailleur saisonnier: seasonal worker
travailleuse du sexe: female sex worker
travaillisme: Labour politics
travailliste: working; labor; Labour, Labor
travailliste: Labour supporter
travaillé: polished, finely wrought, refined, well-made (that has been worked on for a long time and is consequently excellent)
travaux: plural of travail; roadwork
travaux des champs: fieldwork (work done out in the fields)
travaux forcés: hard labor (penal)
travaux pratiques: practical, tutorial (lesson prepared so that a student can learn through exercises)
travelling: dolly, camera dolly (a specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted); travelling shot
travelling contrarié: dolly zoom
travelo: transvestite, drag queen; transsexual, transgender, tranny
travers: outside (the external part of); wide side (the side of which the width is measured); border toll; oddity, irregularity of mind and mood, unfortunate disposition, defect of character
traversable: traversable
traverse: crossing; obstacle, hurdle; sleeper (UK), tie (US); crosspiece; byway, shortcut
traverser: to cross, to go across
traverser l'esprit: to cross someone's mind, to spring to mind
traverseur: traverser
traversier: ferry (for cars, etc.)
traversier: crossing, transverse
traversin: bolster
traversée: crossing (action of traversing something)
travertin: travertine
travesti: transvestite
travestir: to disguise; to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex); to travesty (to make a travesty of), distort
travestisme: transvestism
travestissement: transvestism
travestisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of travestir
travée: bay
trawler: to trawl
trax: excavator, digger (construction equipment); backhoe, backhoe loader, loader excavator
trayeur: a milkman
trayeuse: a milkmaid; milking machine
trayon: teat (of cow, goat)
traçabilité: traceability
traçage: tracing
traçant: that leaves a trace; creeping, growing horizontally near the soil surface
traînage: Pre-1990 spelling of trainage.
traînailler: to dawdle; to mooch
traînant: drawling (voice)
traînard: straggling, lagging
traînard: straggler, laggard; slowcoach, slowpoke
traîne: anything that trails; train (of a wedding dress)
traîneau: sled, sledge, sleigh
traîner: to pull, drag; to bring (something bad); to suffer (from), to linger; to drag along; to lag behind, to trail
traîner dans la boue: to drag through the mud
traîner la patte: to drag one's feet
traîner la savate: to idle, to bum around
traîner les pieds: to drag one's feet
traîner ses guêtres: to hang about, to knock around
traînée: trail; strumpet, harlot, tramp, slut; drag
traître: betrayer, traitor
traître: treacherous
traîtrement: treacherously