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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

combativement: combatively, aggressively, assertively
combativité: combativeness
combattant: combatant; fighter
combattif: post-1990 spelling of combatif
combattre: to fight, to combat (against); to oppose, to struggle
combattre le feu par le feu: to fight fire with fire
combattre le mal par le mal: to fight fire with fire
combe: combe (valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river)
combien: how much (for uncountable nouns and portions); how much (for money); how many (with countable nouns)
combien ça coûte: how much does it cost?
combientième: what number, whatth, which (in a numbered series)
combinable: combinable
combinaison: combination, combining; combination (of lock, safe etc.); slip; petticoat; jumpsuit; overalls; diving suit
combinat: combine (in the old Soviet Union)
combinateur: combinator
combinatoire: combinatorics
combinatoire: combinatory
combine: trick, scheme
combiner: to combine (bring (two or more things or activities) together)
combiné: combined
combiné: compound; receiver; radiogram; combination (event); corselet, corselette
combiné nordique: Nordic combined
combishort: playsuit
comble: summit, peak (of a building); pinnacle; overabundance; overload; comble
comble: packed, heaving, crowded
comble de malheur: to make matters worse, to add insult to injury, to top it all off, to crown it all
comblement: fulfilment, satisfaction
combler: to fulfil, satisfy; to fill (add contents to, so it is full); to fill (to install someone); to counter; to deliver
combles: attic; plural of comble
comblé: fulfilled, satisfied
comburant: oxidizing agent
combustibilité: combustibility
combustible: combustible
combustible: combustible
combustion: combustion, burning, incineration
comeback: comeback; a return
comestibilité: comestibility
comestible: comestible
comice agricole: agricultural show
comices: comitia (popular legislative assembly); fair, trade show
comics: comic strip
coming out: coming-out (the act of coming out of the closet)
comique: comedy; clown (person who acts silly)
comique: comic
comique de répétition: type of humour based on running jokes and running gags
comique de situation: situation comedy
comiquement: comically; farcically
comitatif: comitative, comitative case
comité: committee
comité d'entreprise: works council
comité de direction: management team, executive team, executive committee; management meeting
comité de lecture: selection panel, review panel, selection committee
comité exécutif: executive committee, the equivalent of the cabinet of ministers for a city government, serving the mayor
comité restreint: select committee; cenacle; small group
commac: large, big, out of the common
commac: like this, like that
commagénien: Commagenian
commandant: commander (function); major (rank)
commandant de bord: captain
commandant en chef: commander-in-chief