French–English dictionary

testostérone

(steroid hormone) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.

tétanos

(pathology, usually, uncountable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.

têtard

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

tête

(informal) An intelligent person.

tête à claques

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

tête brûlée

Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded.

tête d'épingle

The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)

tête de bouteille

The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

tête de linotte

(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.

tête de lit

(colloquial) The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.

tête de pont

(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material

tête de série

(sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)

tête en l’air

Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.

tête fromagée

(chiefly, British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

tête marbrée

(chiefly, British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

tête pressée

(chiefly, British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.

tête-à-tête

In person; directly; in the physical presence of somebody.

téter

(transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. [from 11th c.]

têtes de lit

(colloquial) The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.

têtière

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.

tétin

(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.]

tétine

An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants. [from 17th c.]

têton

(chiefly, in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.

tétra-

Four.

tétrade

(computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.

tétration

(arithmetic) The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, ^ba denoting a to the power of a to the power of \ldots to the power of a, in which a appears b times.

Tetris

A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.

têtu

Unyielding and obstinate.

teuch

(slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

teuchi

(slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

teuf

A festive occasion.

Teuton

A member of any Germanic-language-speaking people, especially a German.

Teutonne

A member of any Germanic-language-speaking people, especially a German.

texan

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.

texane

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.

Texas

A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

texien

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.

texienne

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.

texte standard

(computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.

textile

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

texto

(countable) A text message sent using the short message service.

textopornographie

sending sexually explicit text messages or photographs between cell phones

textuellement

With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.

Thaddée

An Apostle, identified with Jude.

Thadée

(rare) A en given name; usually spelled Thaddeus.

thaï

Of or pertaining to Thailand.

thaïlandais

Of or pertaining to Thailand.

Thaïlandaise

(countable) A person living in or coming from Thailand.

Thaïlande

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Thailand. Capital: Bangkok. Former name: Siam.

Thaïs

A en given name.

thalamus

(neuroanatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.

Thalie

(Greek god) The Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.

thallium

A metallic chemical element (symbol Tl) with atomic number 81: a gray post-transition metal that discolors when exposed to air.

thalweg

(geology, geography, cartography) The line that connects the lowest points in a valley or river channel, and thus the line of fastest flow or deepest water along a river’s course.

thanatologue

One who studies death.

thanatophile

Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Thanksgiving

(Canada, US) The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.

thaumaturge

A performer of thaumaturgy; a performer of miracles; a magician.

thaumaturgie

The working of miracles, wonderworking; magic, witchcraft, wizardry.

thé

(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

théâtral

Of or relating to actors or acting.

théâtre

Non-mainstream theatre.

Théia

(Greek god) A Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion.

théière

A vessel for brewing and serving tea, typically with a handle and spout.

thème

Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

thème récurrent

(by extension) A recurring theme.

théo-

(religion) god; deity

Théodora

A en given name, most famously borne by two empresses of Byzantium.

Théodore

A en given name; the name of a saint, pope, several emperors, etc.

théologie

(uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general. [from mid-14th c.]

théologien

One who studies theology.

théologienne

One who studies theology.

théologique

Of or relating to theology.

Théophanie

One of the Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, commemorating the revelation of Jesus' divinity, especially in his baptism by John the Baptist.

théorème

A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)

théoricien

Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

théoricienne

Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

théorique

Existing only in theory, not proven in reality.

théoriquement

in theory though not necessarily in reality.

théoriser

(intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.

thérapeute

Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.

thérapeutique

Of, or relating to therapy.

thérapie

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

Thérèse

A en given name, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.

thériaque

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.

thermal

Pertaining to heat or temperature.

thermique

Pertaining to heat or temperature.

thermodynamique

(physics) The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

thermomètre

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

thermonucléaire

Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures.

thermos

A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

thermostat

A device that automatically responds to changes in temperature by activating a heating or cooling system to maintain the temperature at a desired setting.

Théron

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.

thésauriser

(transitive) To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

thésaurus

A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.

Thésée

A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.

Thessalonique

A port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

thêta

The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.

thibaude

A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.

Thierry

A en given name.

Thing

(chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.

thon

(slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

Thor

(Norse mythology, and, paganism) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.

thoracique

(anatomy) Of the thorax.

thorn

A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

Thrace

A historical region of Southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.

thrène

a dirge or lamentation

thrénodie

A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.

thriller

(film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

thrombose

(pathology) The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.

thrombus

(hematology, pathology) A clot formed from platelets and other elements; that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.

thug

A violent, aggressive, or truculent person.

Thulé

The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).

thune

(slang) Money.

thym

Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.

thyroïde

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.

ti

The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

ti-punch

A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.

Tianjin

A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.

Tibère

(historical) A en given name of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 C.E..

tibétain

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tibétaine

Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

tibia

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: w:Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Tibre

The river that flows through Rome in Italy.

tic

A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.

tic-tac

A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

ticket

A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.

tidal

Relating to tides.

tiède

Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

tiens donc

An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

tiens, tiens !

Used to express surprise.

tiens!

An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).

tierce

(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

tierce-feuille

A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.

tiercefeuille

A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.

tiers

One who is not part of a community or organization.

Tiffany

A en given name.

tige

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

tige de haricot

The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.

tignasse

(humorous) A dense head of hair.

Tigre

A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.

tigresse

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

till

glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders

tilleul

The soft wood of such trees.

tillite

glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders

timbale

Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

timbales

(musical instruments) The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.

Timberlake

A surname.

timbré

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.