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

avunculat: avunculate: society where the maternal uncle is more important than the father
avènement: accession; advent
avéniforme: aveniform
avérable: averrable
avérer: to uncover, to reveal; to prove (to be); to transpire
avéré: recognized, known
awoir: pronunciation spelling of avoir (“to have”)
axe: axis; axle
axe de pédalier: bottom bracket
axe de rotation: axis of rotation
axe de révolution: axis of revolution
axe de symétrie: axis of symmetry
axe des x: x-axis
axe des y: y-axis
axe des z: z-axis
axe du mal: axis of evil (states supposedly sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction)
axe paradigmatique: paradigmatic axis, vertical axis
axe syntagmatique: syntagmatic axis, horizontal axis
axer: to align on an axis; to point, to orientate
axial: axial
axifuge: axifugal
axile: axile
axillaire: axillary
axino: axino
axiologie: axiology
axiologique: axiological
axiomatique: axiomatic
axiomatiquement: axiomatically
axiomatisation: axiomatization
axiomatiser: to axiomatize
axiome: axiom (all senses)
axion: axion
axionique: axionic
axipète: axipetal
axis: synonym of cerf axis (“chital”)
axisymétrie: axisymmetry
axisymétrique: axisymmetric
axolotl: axolotl
axonais: of Aisne
axone: axon
axonge: lard
axonique: axonic
axonométrie: axonometry
axonométrique: axonometric
axonème: axoneme
axoïde: axoid
axoïde: axoid
axoïdien: axoid
axène: axenic
axénique: axenic
axérophtol: axerophthol, xanthophyll (vitamin A)
ayahuasca: ayahuasca
ayant: haver, holder
ayant droit: one who holds, but did not generate, a given right; especially, a copyright holder who has inherited the copyright from an author
ayatollah: ayatollah; strong proponent of something; person behaving tyrannically and despotically in a particular matter
ayez: second-person plural present subjunctive/imperative of avoir
aymara: Aymara (language)
ayons: first-person plural present subjunctive/imperative of avoir
ayoye: expression of pain; expression of admirative surprise
ayurvédique: Ayurvedic