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9,359 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

avocat du diable: devil's advocate
avocatier: avocado, avocado tree
avocatoire: advocative
avocette: avocet (bird)
avodiré: Turraeanthus africana, timber tree native to Sub-Saharan Africa (Meliaceae)
avoine: oats; punch (a hit with the fist)
avoinée: reprimand, reproach
avoir: to have; to own; to possess; to get; to have (to experience or suffer from a state or condition); to have (an age); used to form the compound tenses of most verbs, such as the perfect and pluperfect.; to have (to), must
avoir: asset, possession
avoir accès: to have access
avoir affaire à: to have to deal with
avoir beau: may well, well might (+ infinitive); whatever, no matter what (even though) someone does/says, etc.
avoir beau jeu: for it to be easy for someone to do something, for it to be all very well for someone to do something, to have it easy
avoir besoin de: to need
avoir bon: to be very happy; to be stoked, psyched; to be right
avoir bon dos: to be a convenient excuse, to be a good excuse, to be a convenient scapegoat, to be easily blamed (to be just the right person to put the blame on, even when innocent)
avoir bon fond: to be a good person at heart, to be basically a good person, to have one's heart in the right place
avoir bonne conscience: to have a clear conscience, to have a clean conscience, to have an easy conscience
avoir bonne mine: to look well
avoir bonne presse: to get a good press, to be well thought of
avoir charge d'âme: to have the task of leading people spiritually, to be a shepherd; to be responsible for someone
avoir chaud: to be hot; to have a near miss
avoir chaud aux fesses: to have a narrow escape, to have a close call, to dodge a bullet
avoir confiance: to have faith in, to be confident about; to believe in, to have faith in, to trust
avoir connaissance: to be aware of, to be privy to
avoir conscience: to be aware of (something), to be aware that …, to know that …
avoir cours: to be legal tender; to be current
avoir cours: to have a class, to have a lecture, to have a lesson
avoir d'autres chats à fouetter: to have other things to handle; to have other fish to fry
avoir dans la peau: to be infatuated with someone; to have a crush on someone; to have an innate ability in something, to be naturally gifted for something
avoir dans le sang: to have an innate ability in something, to be naturally gifted for something
avoir de beaux jours devant soi: to have fine days ahead; to have one's best days ahead of one, to have a bright future, to have a rosy future
avoir de la bouteille: to be experienced, to have experience with age
avoir de la chance: to be lucky, to be fortunate
avoir de la chance dans son malheur: to have been lucky in one's misfortune (used when a situation could have been worse)
avoir de la chatte: to be damn lucky, to be jammy, to be a jammy git
avoir de la conversation: to talk easily, always having something to say
avoir de la gueule: to look nice, great; to be impressive
avoir de la merde dans les yeux: to be fucking blind, to not notice the obvious
avoir de la suite dans les idées: to be single-minded, to have a one-track mind; to be strong-minded, to know what one wants; to think logically and consistently
avoir de la veine: to be lucky, to be jammy, to be fortunate
avoir des antennes: to be very perceptive, intuitive
avoir des casseroles au cul: to be compromised by involvement in dubious matters
avoir des cornes: to have been cuckolded, to have been cheated on
avoir des couilles au cul: to be fearless, brave or daring
avoir des fourmis dans les jambes: to have pins and needles in one's legs
avoir des gaz: to be bloated, to want to fart, to have wind
avoir des lettres: to be well-read
avoir des vues sur: to have designs on, to have one's eye on, to set one's sights on
avoir des yeux derrière la tête: to have eyes in the back of one's head
avoir des étoiles dans les yeux: to have stars in one's eyes
avoir deux de QI: to have a room-temperature IQ
avoir deux de tension: to be slow
avoir deux mains gauches: to be all thumbs, to be very clumsy
avoir droit: to be entitled to, to deserve; to be eligible to, to qualify for, to have a right to claim
avoir droit de cité: to have citizenship; to have one's rightful place; to belong; to be acceptable, to be admissible
avoir du biceps: to have well-developed muscles, to be well-built
avoir du bol: to be lucky, to be jammy, to be fortunate
avoir du bon: to have a silver lining (not to be all bad; to have positive repercussions as well)
avoir du chien: to have a certain something, to have sex-appeal