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douceâtre: sweetish, sickly
douche: shower
douche dorée: golden shower
douche froide: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see douche, froide.; let-down, disappointment; rude awakening, cold shower
douche écossaise: a shower which alternates between hot and cold water; bit of a blow, quite a shock
doucher: to shower; to take a shower; to disappoint
douchette: a shower head; a barcode reader
doucir: to polish (looking-glasses)
doudou: beloved, darling (term of endearment)
doudou: any stuffed toy such as a stuffed animal
doudoune: breast, melon; parka, anorak, down jacket, puffer jacket; soft toy, stuffed animal, plush toy
douelle: ditch (small moat around a castle etc)
douer: to endow (someone) (de with)
douille: socket (electrical socket); cartridge case (unprofessional; the correct term in the military is étui); money
douiller: to hurt
douiller: to cough up, stump up, fork out, shell out (money)
douillet: cosy, comfy, snug; soft, oversensitive to pain
douillette: housecoat
douillettement: cosily, snugly
douilletterie: snugness; cosiness
douleur: pain; distress
douloir: to suffer
douloureuse: the bill
douloureusement: painfully
douloureux: painful
doum: gingerbread tree (Hyphaene thebaica); doum palm
douma: duma
dourine: dourine
douro: a Spanish coin worth five pesetas; a five-franc coin
doute: doubt
douter: to doubt; to suspect, to have an inkling
doutes: second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of douter; doubts, misgivings (apprehension)
douteur: doubter; one who doubts
douteusement: doubtfully
douteux: doubtful, uncertain, questionable (issue, outcome, date etc.); dubious, questionable (morals, qualities etc.); rather unclean (piece of clothing)
douve: moat (defensive ditch); stave (of a barrel)
douve: spearwort; fluke (parasitic flatworm)
doux: sweet; soft; mild; gentle (gradual rather than steep); fresh, not salty (of water)
doux: gently
doux Jésus: sweet Jesus!
doux comme un agneau: very gentle; meek as a lamb
doux rêveur: a dreamer (someone whose beliefs are far from realistic)
doux-amer: bittersweet (both bitter and sweet)
douzaine: twelve; dozen; about twelve
douze: twelve
douze coups de minuit: the twelve strokes of midnight
douzième: twelfth
douzième: twelfth
douzièmement: twelfthly
douçâtre: sweetish, sickly
doué: talented; gifted; endowed (with de: endowed with)
doxa: doxa
doxastique: doxastic (related to beliefs, convictions)
doxologie: doxology (praise God expression)
doyen: dean; doyen (senior member)
doyenne: female equivalent of doyen: the oldest woman; female dean at an educational establishment
doyenné: deanship; deanery, decanate; a type of creamy pear
drac: a type of mythological creature associated with the dangers of water
dracena: alternative spelling of dracéna
drache: Heavy rain; downpour