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accomplir: to accomplish; to achieve
accomplissement: accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment
accomplisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of accomplir
accord: chord; agreement; permission, consent
accord de confidentialité: non-disclosure agreement
accord de non-divulgation: non-disclosure agreement
accord de principe: agreement in principle
accord parfait: tonic chord
accordable: accordable
accordailles: betrothal (mutual promise)
accordement: granting; agreement; tuning
accorder: to grant (something to someone); to link to, to be related to; to agree on a fact; to come to an agreement; to agree, to correspond grammatically
accorder ses violons: to reach an agreement, to settle on something, to agree; to reconcile one's stories, to get one's stories straight, to sing the same tune
accordeur: tuner (person who tunes music instruments); tuner (device that shows the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch)
accordiste: a member of an accord
accordoir: tuning wrench
accordé: agreeing, which agrees with its subject
accordéon: accordion
accordéonesque: accordionesque
accordéoniste: accordionist
accore: shore, prop, strut
accore: sheer (very steep)
accorer: to shore up
accorné: horned
accort: cheerful, accommodating; comely
accortement: accordingly, accordantly
accostable: approachable (of a person); dockable (at which you can land a boat)
accostage: docking, coming alongside
accoster: to come ashore; to lay something next to another object; to approach someone; to interrupt someone (especially a stranger, in the street)
accot: fireproof shim used to keep items vertical during firing; mulch
accotement: hard shoulder, shoulder
accotement non stabilisé: soft shoulder
accotement stabilisé: hard shoulder
accoter: to lean; to support, to rest (on); to equal
accotoir: armrest
accouchement: delivery (act of giving birth)
accoucher: to go into labour; to give birth to, to deliver (a baby); to help someone deliver (a baby); to come up with; to say, tell something that one hid beforehand
accoucheur: midwife (male); obstetrician
accoucheuse: midwife
accoudement: action of leaning on ones elbows; neck and neck situation
accouder: to rest, lean (on one's elbows)
accoudoir: armrest
accouer: to harness horses one behind another
accouplable: matchable, connectable; That will mate
accouplement: coupling, mating; coupling
accoupler: to pair up, go together, get into a couple (of two things, to become one); to unite, put together, join (of two things, to cause to become one); to mate
accourcir: to shorten
accourcissement: shortening
accourcisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of accourcir
accourir: to rush up, run up, hurry
accoustumer: obsolete spelling of accoutumer
accoutrement: (elaborate) outfit; getup
accoutrer: to accouter
accoutré: attired, dressed (in a particular manner)
accoutumance: habit, custom; habituation, addiction, dependence, acquired tolerance
accoutumer: to accustom, get (someone) used (à (“to”), à faire (“to doing”)); to get used to (à)
accoutumé: accustomed
accouvage: incubation (of eggs) and subsequent hatching of chicks (in a hatchery)
accoûtumer: obsolete spelling of accoutumer
accrescent: accrescent