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ajonc de Le Gall: western gorse (Ulex gallii Planch.)
ajonc de Provence: a species of gorse, Ulex parviflorus
ajonc nain: dwarf gorse (Ulex minor Roth)
ajour: aperture, slit that lets in daylight; openwork
ajourer: to perforate
ajournable: adjournable, postponable
ajournement: adjournment; deferment, postponement; referral; failure at an exam with an option to resit it
ajourner: postpone, adjourn, put off (an event)
ajourné: adjourned, postponed
ajouré: openwork; perforated, fretted
ajout: addition (something added); addition (the act of adding)
ajoutable: addable; countable
ajoutage: nozzle; connector (especially of laboratory glassware)
ajouter: to add, append
ajouter foi: to lend credence to, to give credence to, to put faith in, to believe
ajouter une corde à son arc: to add another string to one's bow
ajoutoir: synonym of ajoutage
ajoutoit: archaic spelling of ajoutait, third-person plural imperfect indicative of ajouter
ajustable: adjustable
ajustage: adaptation, adjustment; fitting
ajustement: adjustment, adjusting, tweak
ajuster: to adjust; tweak
ajusteur: fitter; adjuster
ak: pronunciation spelling of avec
akathisie: akathisia
akawaïo: Akawaio
akinésie: akinesia
akinésique: akinesic
akinétique: akinetic; akinesic
akkadien: Akkadian (language)
akkadien: Akkadian (of, from or relating to Akkad)
akkadogramme: Akkadogram (an Akkadian word used as a logogram in another language, such as Hittite)
akkadophone: Akkadophone
akvavit: alternative spelling of aquavit
akène: achene
akénocarpe: whose fruit is an achene
akénocarpe: achenocarp
al: they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
al-Andalus: al-Andalus
al-Kanadi: a surname from Arabic
al-Kanadi: al-Kanadi
alabamien: of Alabama; Alabamian
alabandine: alabandite
alabastrite: alabaster
alablement: feasibly
alacrité: alacrity, ardour, eagerness
alader: Italian buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus)
alain: Alan (of the Alans)
alaindeloniser: to refer to oneself in the third person
alaire: wing
alaise: undersheet, drawsheet
alambic: alembic, still (device for distilling liquids)
alambiquer: to distill; to refine
alambiqué: overrefined; convoluted
alandais: from Åland
alandier: an opening or small chamber at the base of a ceramic kiln where the fire is lit; firebox, fire hole, fire-tunnel, stoking chamber
alangui: languid
alanguir: to cause to become languid; to become languid
alanguissement: languor
alanguisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of alanguir