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5,394 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

buvant: drinking
buvard: blotting paper; blotter
buvette: bar (place where beverages are sold) particularly a small one
buveur: drinker (someone who drinks, especially alcohol)
buzz: buzz (excitement)
buée: laundry; condensation, steam, mist
byblien: Byblian
bye: bye
byronien: Byronian
byronisme: Byronism
byssinose: byssinosis
byzantin: Byzantine; overcomplicated, futile and lost in the details
byzantinisme: tendency to adopt overcomplicated solutions
byzantiniste: Byzantinist, specialist in the Byzantine Empire
byzantinologie: study of Byzantium; Byzantinology
byzantinologue: specialist on the Byzantine Empire; a Byzantinologist
bzou: werewolf
bâbord: port (left-hand side of a vessel)
bâchage: covering with a canvas or tarpaulin
bâche: tarpaulin; tank (reservoir); tide pool
bâcher: to cover with a canvas or tarpaulin
bâcler: to bang out (a task), to botch
bâfrer: to guzzle, gobble; to binge, pig out; to gobble down, wolf down (to eat quickly and greedily)
bâfreur: guzzler; binge drinker
bâillant: yawning
bâillement: yawn (the action of yawning); large gap
bâiller: to yawn
bâiller comme une carpe: to yawn a lot
bâilleur: yawner
bâillon: gag (a device to restrain speech)
bâillonnement: gagging, muzzling, silencing
bâillonner: to gag; to muzzle; to silence
bâlois: of Basel, Basler
bâoli: stepwell
bât: packsaddle
bâtard: bastard
bâtard: bastard (person born to unmarried parents); hybrid plant; batard (short baguette); bastard, asshole
bâtardement: bastardly
bâtardise: bastardy (quality of being a bastard, of being born out of wedlock)
bâter: to put on a packsaddle
bâti: frame; assembly; basting, tacking
bâtiment: building, edifice; building industry, construction; ship or boat; warship
bâtiment précieux: capital ship
bâtir: to build; to construct; to build up
bâtir des châteaux en Espagne: to chase rainbows, to build castles in the air (to make overly ambitious plans)
bâtir à chaux et à sable: to build solidly
bâtisse: (act of) building, construction; a building, especially when humbly or badly built; a building (neutral)
bâtisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of bâtir
bâtisseur: builder
bâton: stick; baton (as a charge)
bâton de chaise: pole used to carry a sedan chair
bâton de comptage: tally stick
bâton de vieillesse: young person who supports an elderly person in their everyday life
bâton-du-diable: marsh thistle (Cirsium palustre)
bâtonnade: beating (specifically with a rod or stick)
bâtonnage: clubbing (beating with a club); stirring the lees of wine
bâtonnat: barristering; barristership
bâtonner: to club (strike with a club)
bâtonnet: small stick; batonnet (piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick); rod cell (any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina that function in dim light levels)
bâtonnier: a person who carries a ceremonial baton in a procession; the president of a bar association or law society