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empirique: empirical
empirique: empiricist
empiriquement: empirically
empirisme: empiricism
empiriste: empiricist
empiècement: yoke (piece of material)
empiéger: to trap
empiétement: encroachment, trespassing; infringement
empiéter: to encroach, impinge
emplacement: site, location
emplette: purchase
empli: filled
emplir: to fill
emplissage: filling (making something full)
emplisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of emplir
emploi: job; employment; use; need; use, application
emploi absolu: absolute construction (use of a syntagmic element independent of other elements that would typically be expected to accompany it, e.g., a transitive verb without a direct object or a comparative adjective without a relative complement)
emploi aidé: state-subsidised job
emploi du temps: timetable; schedule
emploi-cravate: tie-job
employabilité: employability
employable: usable; employable
employer: to use (a physical thing); to use (an abstract); to be used; to employ (a person); to be employed
employer la manière forte: to use strong-arm tactics
employer les grands moyens: to bring out the big guns, to resort to drastic measures, to take drastic steps
employeur: employer
employé: employee; nonmanagerial worker
employé de bureau: office worker
employé de maison: cleaner, housemaid
employée: employee
emplumé: feathered
emplâtre: plaster (glue-like substance); a useless individual, a good-for-nothing; a blow received during a fight
emplâtre sur une jambe de bois: synonym of cataplasme sur une jambe de bois
emplâtrer: to apply a plaster on; to penetrate (sexually); to pocket (money); to fight
empocher: to pocket (to put something in a pocket); to pocket, to rake in, to earn
empoignade: violent argument, scrap or altercation
empoigner: to grab; grasp (to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something))
empois: glue made from starch
empoisonnement: poisoning
empoisonner: to poison, to kill by poisoning
empoisonneur: poisoner
empoissonnement: the stocking up with fish, the act of populating something with fish
empoissonner: to stock with fish; to populate with fish
empoissé: glutinous, sticky
emporium: emporium
emport: payload
emporte-pièce: cookie cutter
emportement: anger, rage
emporter: to take; to win; to take away, to blow away, to carry away; to take away; to get angry; to lose one's temper; to flare up
emportiérage: dooring (the act of striking a cyclist with a car door)
emportiérer: to door (to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle)
emporétique: emporetic
empoter: to pot (a plant); to load liquid or gas into a tanker (road vehicle)
empoté: clumsy, awkward
empoté: clumsy person, butterfingers
empourprer: to make purple, to color purple, empurple; to blush
empreindre: to imprint; to influence; to imbue (with); to become imbued (with)
empreint: characterized or marked (by)
empreinte: imprint (any visible mark caused by pressure)
empreinte carbone: carbon footprint