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essayiste: essayist
esse: The name of the Latin script letter S/s.
essence: essence; petrol, gasoline; essence, essential oil
essence de térébenthine: turpentine
essencerie: gas station; petrol station
essencier: essencier
essentialisme: essentialism
essentialité: essentialness; essentiality, essence
essentiel: essential
essentiel: essential; essence, essential part
essentiellement: essentially
esseuler: to isolate; to isolate oneself
esseulé: left alone, stranded, forlorn
essieu: axel, axle (of a car)
essif: essive, essive case
essonnien: of Essonne
essor: flight (the time of soaring, for a bird); soaring (great success)
essorage: spinning, spin-drying; wringing (out)
essorer: to dry out, to hang out to dry (e.g. washing), to spin-dry; wring, wring out
essoreuse: mangle, wringer
essoubler: to forget
essoucher: to uproot tree stumps from land (to render it cultivatable)
essoufflement: breathlessness, panting; running out of steam (lack of energy or motivation)
essouffler: to knock the wind out of, leave breathless; to become breathless; to run out of steam, to tail off
essoufflé: out of breath, breathless
essuie-glace: windscreen wiper
essuie-mains: hand towel
essuie-tout: paper towel, kitchen towel, kitchen paper
essuyage: wipe; wiping
essuyer: to wipe, to wipe down; to soak up
essuyer les plâtres: to face teething problems, to deal with teething troubles
essuyeur: wiper; mopper
essénien: of or relating to the Essenes
est: east
est: east
est-allemand: East German
est-asiatique: East Asian
est-il: is he; is it
est-nord-est: east-northeast (compass point)
est-quart-nord-est: east by north (compass point)
est-quart-sud-est: east by south (compass point)
est-sud-est: east-southeast (compass point)
establishment: establishment (the ruling class or authority group)
estacade: estacade; wooden pile bridge
estafette: courier; dispatch rider
estafier: armed valet; bodyguard, hatchet man
estafilade: gash, slash (with a bladed weapon, usually on the face); gash, slash (on clothing); the scar left by such a wound
estaminet: restaurant room where smoking is allowed; small café, estaminet
estampage: estampage
estampe: print
estamper: to emboss; to stamp (mark by pressing quickly and heavily)
estampie: estampie (medieval French dance)
estampille: stamp (device for imprinting); stamp (imprint made by a stamp)
estampiller: to stamp (mark with a stamp)
estancia: estancia
ester: to appear; to be
ester: ester
esterlin: sterling
esthète: aesthete (someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature)
esthésie: aesthesia