French–English dictionary

fossette

Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.

fossile

(figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.

fossilisé

in a state of fossilisation

fossoyeur

A person employed to dig graves.

fosterage

The condition of being the foster child.

fou

(informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.

fou de joie

Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.

fou furieux

Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.

fou rire

(with the) An attack of uncontrolled giggling.

foudre

A very large wooden vat in which beer is lagered.

foudroyer

(transitive, now, _, rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.

fouet

(weaponry, chiefly, historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.

fouetter

To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

fouetter avec un chat à neuf queues

(nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

foufoune

(vulgar, slang) Vulva

fougère

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

fouille

An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

fouiller

(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

fouillis

a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation

fouine

Martes foina, a marten of Eurasia.

fouiner

(by extension, ambitransitive) To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.

fouineur

Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.

fouineuse

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

foulard

A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.

foule

(figuratively, by extension, usually, in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

fouler

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.

foulon

A person who fulls cloth.

foulque

Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

foultitude

(originally, US, informal, chiefly with "of") unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.

found

(ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

four

A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

fourbe

Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

fourberie

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

fourbir

To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.

fourche

The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.

fourchette

Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

fourchon

A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.

fourgon

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

fourgonnette

A small van, especially (North America, Australia, NZ, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.

fourgue

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

fourmi

Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.

fourmilier

Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).

fourmilière

A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.

fourmiller

(intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive

fourmiller de

To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]

fournaise

(colloquial, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot.

fourneau

A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

fournée

The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

fournir

(cards) To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.

fournisseur

A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.

fournisseuse

One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.

fourniture

(uncountable) The act of supplying.

fourrage

Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

fourrager

To rummage.

fourré

Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

fourre-tout

Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.

fourreau

The sheath of a sword.

fourrer

(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).

fourrer son nez

Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.

fourretout

A large bag for carrying belongings while travelling.

foutaise

Nonsense; senseless talk.

foutaises

(informal, uncountable) Nonsensical talk or thinking.

foutoir

(by extension) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.

foutre

(ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

foutre en l'air

To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.

foutu

(slang) Acronym of fucked/fouled up beyond all recognition/repair/reason/recovery.

foutue

(informal, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly, _) Used as an intensifier.

foxé

(of wine) Having an animal-like odor.

foyer

A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.

foyers

(figurative) Home or family life.

frabieux

Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.

fracas

(onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.

fracasser

(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.

fractal

(mathematics) Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.

fractale

(mathematics) Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.

fractionnaire

Pertaining to a fraction.

fractionnel

Pertaining to a fraction.

fracturé

(of a, bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

fracturer

(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

frag

(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.

fragile

Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.

fragilité

The state of being brittle (in various senses).

fragment

A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.

fragmenté

(meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

fragrance

A pleasant smell or odour.

frai

Young fish; fishlings.

fraîchement

Recently, newly.

fraiches

(uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

fraicheur

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

frais

The amount of money levied for a service.

frais d'inscription

(North American, Philippines) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

frais de courtage

The commission paid to a broker.

frais de livraison

The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.

frais de port

The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.

frais de scolarité

(North American, Philippines) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).

frais de transport

The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.

frais généraux

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

fraise

(mechanical engineering) A rotary cutting tool typically used in milling machines.

fraiseuse

The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.

fraisier

The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

framboise

Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.

framboisier

The plant Rubus idaeus.

frame

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

Franc

One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

franc-maçon

A member of the Free and Accepted Masons (sometimes entitled Ancient Free and Accepted Masons), an international fraternal and charitable organization.

franc-tenancier

(historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.

franc-tireur

(by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. [from 1880s]

français

(chiefly, _, collective, and, in the plural) The people of France; groups of French people.

Française

A French woman; a woman of French ancestry, descent or citizenship.

Francfort

The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

Francfort-sur-l'Oder

A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.

Francfort-sur-le-Main

The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

franchement

(idiomatic) Openly, without deceit.

franchir

(football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

franchise

(US) The joint assumption of risk between the insurer and the insured party.

franciscain

Of or pertaining to (Roman Catholicism) the Order of the Friars Minor, or (Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) to another religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order.

franco-

Involving or relating to France or the French people, language, or culture.

frange

(chiefly, _, US, Philippines) Hair hanging over the forehead.

frange (d'interférence)

(physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

franger

(transitive) To decorate with fringe.

frangible

Able to break or be broken.

frangine

(informal) Clipping of sister.

Franque

One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

frantic

(US, British, Australian, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 1021.

frappe

The process of coining money.

frapper

(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

frapper avec un bâton

(transitive) To strike with a baton.

frapper d'un coup de couteau

(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

frapper monnaie

To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

frapper une monnaie

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

frappeur

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

frarâtre

The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.

frasque

Mischievous play, especially by children. [from mid 19th c.]

fraternalisme

the characteristic of being brotherly

fraternel

Of or characteristic of brothers.

fraterniser

(transitive) To treat as a brother.

fraternité

The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).

fratrie

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

fraude

(law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

fraudeur

A person who performs any such trick.

frauduleux

(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.

Frédéric

A en given name.

fredonner

(intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal cords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.

freelance

Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.

freestyle

(music) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing.

frégate

(historical) A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship. [mid 19th–late 19th c.]

frein

A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. [from 18th c.]

frein à main

(mechanical engineering, automotive, railroading) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

freinage

The act of applying brakes.

freiner

A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. [from 18th c.]