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

volumétrie: volumetry
volumétrique: volumetric
volumétriquement: volumetrically
voluptueusement: voluptuously
voluptueux: voluptuous
volupté: voluptuousness; rich and intense pleasure, especially sexual pleasure
volute: volute; scroll (of a musical instrument)
volutite: A fossil volute
volvacé: Having the form of a pocket or sack
volée: flying, flight; flock, group; volley; thrashing, defeat; flight
volée de bois vert: severe reprimand, often to correct an undesirable behaviour; harsh criticism
volémie: blood volume
vomer: vomer, vomer bone
vomi: vomit
vomiquier: nux vomica, strychine tree (an evergreen tree of species Strychnos nux-vomica, found in southeastern Asia)
vomir: to vomit
vomissement: sick; vomit (act of vomiting)
vomisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of vomir
vomissure: vomit, sick
vomitif: vomitive, emetic
vomitif: vomitive, emetic
vomito: vomito (disease)
vomitoire: vomitorium
voméronasal: vomeronasal
vonckiste: revolutionary supporter of Jean-François Vonck
vonckiste: of Jean-François Vonck
vorace: voracious, ravenous
voracement: voraciously
voracité: voracity, voraciousness
vortex: vortex
vorticité: vorticity
vos désirs sont des ordres: your wish is my command
vos gueules: shut your mouth!, shut up!, shut it!
vosgien: of Vosges
votant: voter (one who votes)
votante: voter
votation: action of voting
vote: vote
vote à main levée: show of hands
voter: to vote
voter avec ses pieds: to vote with one's feet (to express one's preferences through one's actions)
votif: votive
votre humble serviteur: yours truly (I, me, myself)
voucher: voucher, coupon (a piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount)
voudou: voodoo
vouer: to vow; to devote (+ à to); to devote oneself, to be devoted
vouer aux gémonies: to pillory, to blame
voueur: vower (someone who vows); devoter (someone who devotes)
vougier: fighter armed with a voulge or vouge
vouivre: wyvern; a mythical reptile said to inhabit Lorraine, Jura, and other regions of France
vouloir: will
vouloir: to want, wish, desire; to expect; to think; forms rhetorical questions, perhaps better translated to English by rephrasing with would or should; to see oneself as; to give the impression of, to seem
vouloir c'est pouvoir: Where there's a will, there's a way.
vouloir dire: to mean; to signify
vous: the plural personal pronoun in the second person; you, to you (indirect object pronoun); plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person
vous autres: you, y'all, ye (second-person plural pronoun)
vous m'en direz des nouvelles: I'm sure you'll like it! You won't regret it!
vous savez: you know
vous savez quoi: you know what? (a phrase used to get someone's attention before announcing something)
vous voulez rire: you gotta be joking! you must be kidding!