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

bégayer: to stammer
bégayeur: stammerer; stutterer
bégonia: begonia (large genus of plants of the family Begoniaceae)
bégu: retrognathous (of the teeth of a horse etc.)
bégueter: to bleat
bégueule: prudish
bégueule: prude; prissy person
bégueulerie: prudery, prudishness
béguin: crush, fancy (a short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation); crush (person with whom one is infatuated)
béguin: a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet
béguin: Beghard, Beguin (religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines)
béguinage: beguinage
béguine: Beguine (member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order); bigot; female equivalent of béguin
bégum: begum
béguètement: bleat, bleating
béhavioral: behavioural
béhavioralisme: behaviouralism
béhaviorisme: behaviourism
béhavioriste: of behaviourism; behaviourist
béhénique: behenic
béjaune: greenhorn (inexperienced person)
béjaune: delusional (having false or faulty beliefs), (refusing the truth)
béké: Describing a person of white, French descent from the French Antilles
bélandre: a type of flat-bottomed transport boat used on inland waterways
bélemnite: belemnite
bélier: ram (sheep); battering ram
bélinogramme: wirephoto, telephotograph (photographic image transmitted by wire)
bélinographe: wirephoto, telephotograph equipment
bélizien: of Belize; Belizean; of Belize City; Belizean
bélière: a ring that holds the clapper of a bell (or similar, dangling objects)
bélopérone: shrimp plant
béluga: beluga (whale); beluga (fish)
bélître: a worthless person; a rascal; a beggar
bémol: flat, bemol; dampener, caveat
bémoliser: to flatten; to soften
bénard: That can be opened from either side using the same key
bénard: pants, trousers
bénarde: a lock that can be opened from either side using the same key; a key to such a lock
bénef: benefit; profit
béni-oui-oui: yes man
bénignement: benignly
bénignité: benignity, benignness
bénin: benign
béninois: of Benin; Beninese
bénir: to bless (invoke or give supernatural assistance)
bénisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of bénir
bénisseur: benedictive
bénit: blessed
bénitier: stoup, holy water font
bénitier géant: giant clam Tridacna gigas.
béné: bene/benny: eggs benedict; a food, an egg dish
béné: abbreviation of bénévole
bénédicité: grace (short prayer before or after a meal)
bénédictin: Benedictine
bénédictin: Benedictine (monk / nun)
bénédiction: blessing (some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward); benediction
bénéfactif: benefactive, benefactive case
bénéfice: profit, earning; benefit, advantage
bénéfice du doute: benefit of the doubt
bénéficiaire: beneficiary, recipient (of a benefit)