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3,325 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

engoulevent: nightjar
engourdi: numb
engourdir: to numb, make numb; to dull, deaden, blunt; to go numb, go to sleep
engourdissement: numbness, numbing
engourdisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of engourdir
engrain: einkorn wheat
engrais: fertilizer
engraissage: fattening
engraissement: fattening
engraisser: to fatten
engramme: engram
engrangement: gathering, garnering (of hay)
engranger: to store; to rake in; to collect, gather in; to gain (experience, points); to generate (economics; profits)
engraver: to ground
engrelé: engrailed
engrenage: gear (a wheel with grooves); inescapable sequence of events; slippery slope
engrener: (of poultry) to fatten by feeding grain; to thresh; to fill with grain; to set in motion; to start; to begin; to engage or mesh (come into gear with)
engrisailler: to make or become gloomy
engrosser: to impregnate, to knock up
engueulade: telling off; argument
engueulement: telling-off; argument
engueuler: to give (someone) a roasting, to tell someone off, to chew out, to give shit; to argue, to have a row
engueuler comme du poisson pourri: to give (someone) a rollicking, to give (someone) a bollocking, to tear a strip off (someone)
engueuleur: arguer
enguirlander: to festoon, hang with garlands; to tell off, tick off
enhaché: minced (finely chopped)
enhardir: to embolden
enhardisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of enhardir
enharmonie: enharmony
enharmonique: enharmonic
enharmoniquement: enharmonically
enharnacher: to harness a horse; to caparison
enherber: to cover with grass; to poison
enhucher: hang (to place on a hook)
enivrant: intoxicating; heady
enivrement: exhilaration
enivrer: to intoxicate, make drunk or get (someone) drunk, either physically or figuratively; to get drunk; to become intoxicated
enjambement: enjambment; crossing-over
enjamber: to straddle; to step over, to stride; to make an enjambment; to ignore
enjambeur: high-clearance tractor that can straddle the crops
enjambée: stride
enjeu: stake (what is at stake); issue, problem
enjoindre: to order; to enjoin (someone à faire something)
enjolivement: embellishment
enjoliver: to embellish, prettify
enjoliveur: hubcap
enjolivure: embellishment
enjolivé: embellished, enlivened
enjouement: playfulness, cheerfulness
enjouer: to render playful, put some playfulness into (something)
enjouer: to aim a rifle
enjoué: cheerful
enjuguer: to yoke
enjuiver: to subject (someone) to Jewish influences
enjôlement: bewitching
enjôler: to bewitch, to entice
enjôleur: persuader, wheedler
enjôleur: bewitching
enkystement: encystment
enkyster: to encyst (becoming surrounded by a cyst)