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

commérage: gossip (idle talk)
commérer: to gossip (to talk about others' personal information)
comorien: Comorian
compacité: compactness
compact: compact (closely packed), dense; compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
compact: compact disc; music center (US), music centre (UK); compact camera
compactage: compacting; compaction
compacter: to compact
compacteur: compactor
compactifier: to compactify
compactifié: compact space
compagnie: company
compagnie aérienne: airline (company that flies airplanes)
compagnie d'assurances: insurance company, insurance carrier
compagnon: lifelong partner, significant other; companion; friend, buddy, pal; journeyman
compagnon d'infortune: companion in misfortune, companion in adversity, companion in misery, fellow-sufferer
compagnon de route: fellow traveller (one who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it)
compagnonnage: companionship; a form of apprenticeship by which a person is trained under the supervision of a community
compagnonnique: companionable
comparabilité: comparability; comparableness
comparable: comparable (suitable to be compared)
comparablement: comparably
comparaison: comparison; simile (figure of speech)
comparaison n'est pas raison: comparisons don't prove anything; one shouldn't compare things that aren't comparable; it's not the same
comparaitre: alternative spelling of comparaître
comparateur: comparator
comparatif: comparative
comparatif: comparative (a grammatical structure used to compare or contrast); comparative (a word, particularly an adjective or adverb, in comparative form)
comparatisme: comparatism
comparatiste: comparatist
comparativement: comparatively
comparaître: to appear before a judge or government official
comparer: to compare
comparer des pommes et des poires: to mix apples and oranges, to compare apples and oranges
comparoir: to appear before a court; to be arraigned
comparse: extra; accomplice; sidekick
compartiment: compartment
compartimentation: compartmentalization
compartimenter: to put into compartments, compartmentalize, to section off
compartimenté: compartmentalized
comparution: appearance
comparé: compared
compas: pair of compasses; magnetic compass; a genre of modern Haitian music descended from the traditional style méringue
compascuité: compascuity
compassement: exact measurement or regulation
compasser: to compass (measure with a compass)
compassion: compassion, pity
compassionnel: compassionate
compassionner: to pity, feel sorry for
compassé: scrupulous, meticulous; stuffy
compatibilité: compatibility
compatibilité ascendante: forward compatibility (compatibility with newer data)
compatibilité descendante: backward compatibility (compatibility with older data)
compatible: compatible
compatiblement: compatibly
compatir: to sympathise, empathise, feel for
compatissance: compassion
compatissant: compassionate; sympathetic
compatisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of compatir
compatriote: compatriot, fellow countryman