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

cotte de mailles: coat of mail, chain mail
cotte-hardie: cotehardie, coat-hardy
cotteur: a raised border between a road and sidewalk; a kerb
cotteur: garden shears or secateurs; a light sleigh drawn by a single horse; a cutter
cottien: Cottian
cotutelle: co-guardianship
cotyloïde: cotyloid
cotyloïdien: synonym of cotyloïde
cotylédon: cotyledon
cou: neck
cou-de-pied: instep
coua: coua
couac: noise of a crow. caw, squawk, croak
couac: false note; joke in bad taste; misstep, blunder
couac: a type of flour made from manioc
couard: coward
couard: cowardly
couardement: cowardly (in a cowardly way)
couardise: cowardice
couchage: coating (of paper etc); sleeping
couchant: the setting sun; the sunset; the west; old age, decline, termination
couche: bed (place for sleeping); nappy/diaper; coat (of paint); layer (of soil, snow etc.); childbirth
couche d'ozone: ozone layer, ozone shield
couche-couche: couche-couche
couche-culotte: nappy, diaper
couche-tard: night owl (one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late)
couche-tôt: day lark (person who goes to bed early)
coucher: going to bed; bedding; room and board; setting (sun)
coucher: to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up (a lodger); to go to bed; to set (of celestial objects); to lodge, to beat down (wheat)
coucher de soleil: sunset
coucher sous les ponts: to sleep rough, to sleep on the streets; to be homeless
coucher sur le papier: to write down
coucherie: hookup, instance of sleeping around (casual sexual encounter)
couchette: sleeping berth
coucheur: bedfellow
couchsurfer: to couch surf
couché: in bed; lying
couci-couci: not bad, so-so
couci-couça: so-so (neither well nor badly)
coucou: cuckoo (the bird); cuckoo (the cry of the bird); cuckoo clock; cowslip (flower); old plane; old crate; rust bucket; any old vehicle, especially one that is rickety
coucou: cuckoo; the call of the cuckoo; peekaboo; hiya, hey; an informal greeting; an informal goodbye, bye-bye
coucoumelle: a type of amanita (Amanita ovoidea)
coucoune: cigarette butt, fag end; joint (of cannabis)
coucoune: vulva
coude: elbow
coude à coude: elbow to elbow (in close proximity, side by side); neck and neck, nip and tuck (so evenly matched that the advantage shifts from one to the other, and the outcome is uncertain)
couder: to fold elbow-shaped
coudière: elbow guard, elbow pad
coudoiement: close contact, elbowing, rubbing shoulders with other people
coudonc: expressing surprise, impatience, or incomprehension
coudoyer: to elbow (someone); to press together, be elbow-to-elbow; to encounter regularly
coudre: to sew; to mend
coudre la peau du renard à celle du lion: to combine cunning with strength, to be cunning as well as strong
coudrier: synonym of noisetier: hazel
coudée: cubit
couenne: bacon rind; skin
couette: pigtail, bunches (hairstyle); quillback (species of fish)
couette: duvet, quilt
couffin: Moses basket (UK), bassinet (US)
coufique: Cufic