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2,401 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

vanterie: bragging; braggartry
vanté: praised, vaunted
vanuatais: Vanuatuan
vape: haze; mist; vape (act of vaping)
vaper: to vape
vapeur: steam; vapour
vapeur: steamship
vapeur d'eau: water vapor, steam
vapocraquage: steam cracking
vapocraquer: to steam-crack
vapocraqueur: steam cracker
vapocuiseur: pressure cooker
vaporeusement: steamily, mistily; transparently
vaporeux: vaporous, misty; filmy, transparent
vaporisateur: vaporizer
vaporisation: vaporization
vaporiser: to vaporize (to turn into vapour)
vapoter: to vape (smoke e-cigarettes)
vapoteur: vaper (person who uses e-cigarettes)
vapoteuse: female equivalent of vapoteur; vape pen
vaquer: to vacate; to discontinue; to busy oneself with, to be occupied with; to scurry about looking for food; to get down to business
varan: monitor lizard
varappe: rock climbing
varapper: to go rock climbing, climb rocks
varappeur: climber, rock climber
varec: alternative spelling of varech
varech: kelp
vareuse: blouse; tunic
variabilité: variability
variable: variable
variable: variable (quantity that may assume any one of a set of values)
variable d'ajustement: adjustment variable; decision variable
variable de classe: class variable
variable dépendante: dependent variable (in an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation)
variable indépendante: independent variable (in an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation)
variablement: variably
variance: variance
variant: varied, which varies; variable
variant: mutation, variant (of a virus)
variante: variant
variateur: variator
variation: variation; variation (technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass)
variationnel: variational
varice: varicose vein
varicelle: chicken pox (disease)
varier: to vary
varier les plaisirs: to ring the changes
variole: smallpox
variole du singe: monkeypox, mpox
variole simienne: monkeypox, mpox
varioleuse: Person afflicted with smallpox
variolique: smallpox; variolous
varioloïde: varioloid
variorum: variorum
variqueux: varicose
varié: varied, various, diverse
variétal: varietal
variété: variety; type, genre; manifold
varois: Var
varsovien: Varsovian (from or of Warsaw)