Dictionary

Look up any word

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

contentieux: contention
contention: disposition, effort; dispute, contention; immobilization, (psychiatry) restraint
contenu: content (that which is physically contained in a container); content (subject matter)
conter: to recount (tell a story)
conter fleurette: to woo
contestable: contestable
contestablement: disputably, arguably
contestataire: contesting, anti-establishment
contestataire: protester
contestateur: protester; anti-establishment
contestateur: protester, complainer
contestation: challenge, dispute; protest
conteste: only used in sans conteste (“no doubt”)
contester: to contest; to challenge; to dispute
conteur: storyteller, a person who tells stories; narrator
contexte: context
contextualiser: to contextualize
contextuel: context; contextual
contexture: contexture
contigu: adjoining; contiguous
contiguïser: to make contiguous
contiguïté: contiguity
contigüité: post-1990 spelling of contiguïté
continence: continence
continent: continent
continental: continental
continentalité: continentality
contingemment: contingently
contingence: contingence; contingencies
contingent: contingent
contingent: quota; contingent
contingentement: quota
contingenter: to apply a quota to; to brake
continu: continuous, uninterrupted
continuateur: successor
continuation: continuation (act of continuing)
continuel: continuous, continual
continuellement: continuously
continuer: to continue
continuer sur une lancée: to keep going on a specific path or course
continuiste: continuationist
continuiste: continuo player
continuiste: continuationist
continuité: continuity
continument: post-1990 spelling of continûment
continuo: continuo
continuum: continuum
continuum dialectal: dialect continuum
continûment: continuously
contondant: blunt (of an instrument, weapon, tool)
contondre: to hit; to give blows; to produce contusions; bruise; to grind with a mortar
contorsion: contortion
contorsionner: to contort
contorsionniste: contortionist
contorsionné: contorted
contour: contour
contournement: bypass (road); workaround (computing); flashover
contourner: to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to travel from one place to another, to visit several places
contourné: bypassed, circumvented; distorted, crooked, wobbly
contraceptif: contraceptive (that acts to prevent conception)