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débusquer: to drive out, smoke out, flush out; to track down, sniff out (someone or something hiding or hidden)
début: start, beginning
début de la fin: beginning of the end
début du fou: bishop's opening
début ouvert: open game
débutant: who is a beginner
débutant: debutant, newbie, beginner
débutante: a debutante
débuter: to start; to debut, to make one's debut
débâcher: to remove the tarpaulin or other covering from the load on a lorry
débâcle: debacle (break-up of ice dam); debacle (fiasco); the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)
débâcler: to break up; to lose the ice on the surface
débâillonner: to ungag; to uncensor
débâter: to unsaddle
déc.: abbreviation of décembre (“December”): Dec
déca: decaf
décacheter: to unseal; to open (that which was sealed)
décacorne: decacorn
décadaire: of a period of ten days, occurring every ten days; of the decades of the Republican calendar
décade: period of ten days (such as the week in the French Republican Calendar); decade (period of ten years)
décadence: decadence (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration); decline, decay (deterioration of condition)
décadent: decadent
décadent: decaying, deteriorating, in decline; decadent (characterized by moral or cultural decline)
décadentisme: decadentism, decadent movement
décadi: décadi
décadrer: to unframe; to be out of frame
décaféination: decaffeination
décaféiner: to decaffeinate
décaféiné: decaffeinated coffee, decaf
décaféiné: decaffeinated
décagonal: decagonal
décagone: decagon
décagramme: decagram / decagramme
décaillage: decurdling (in cheesemaking)
décaissement: disbursement, cash outflow, cash outlay, withdrawal
décaisser: to pay out
décakatal: decakatal
décalage: gap, discrepancy; shift, offset; time shifting (practice of recording a broadcast for later watching or listening); jet lag
décalage horaire: timezone difference; jet lag
décalage vers le rouge: redshift
décalaminer: to decoke; to decarbonize
décalcification: decalcification
décalcifier: to decalcify, to remove the calcium from
décalcomanie: decalcomania (the process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals)
décaler: to unload (a ship); to bring forward, put back (a meeting etc.); to stagger (a shift); move aside; to set up
décalottage: an uncapping of someone, a removal of the cap from someone; an opening of any oblong or vertical object by withdrawing its top part, or an uncovering of the top of such an object by withdrawing what covers it
décalottement: synonym of décalottage
décalotter: to uncap someone, to remove the cap from someone; to open any oblong or vertical object by withdrawing its top part, or to uncover the top of such an object by withdrawing what covers it
décalque: decal; decalcomania
décalquer: to trace, transfer (a design)
décalé: surprising
décamper: to decamp, to break camp (to pack up a campsite and move on); to clear off, to buzz off, to hop it
décamètre: decametre/decameter
décaméride: decameride
décamétrique: decametric
décan: decan, ten days
décanat: deanship (in university)
décane: decane
décanoïque: decanoic
décantation: decantation