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

exemplarité: exemplarity
exemple: example
exemplification: exemplification
exemplifier: to exemplify
exempt: exempt, (type of) policeman
exempt: exempt
exempter: to exempt
exemption: exemption
exercer: to instruct, to command; to exercise; to practise, to do
exercice: exercise, performance; exercise, practice; exercise; physical exercise; fiscal year, financial year
exercice comptable: accounting period
exercice d'incendie: fire drill, fire practice (organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire)
exercice de style: stylistic exercise, exercise in style
exercice fiscal: fiscal year, accounting year, financial year
exergue: exergue (space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for an inscription); inscription; epigraph
exfiltrer: to exfiltrate
exfoliant: exfoliating; that causes exfoliation of the skin
exfoliation: exfoliation
exfolier: to exfoliate, strip of leaves; to exfoliate
exhalaison: exhalation
exhalant: exhalant
exhalation: exhalation
exhaler: to exhale; to give off (e.g. an odor); to let out, let slip (e.g. a secret); to let out (e.g. of an instrument, to emit a sound)
exhaure: drainage (especially of water from a mine)
exhaurer: to drain water from a mine
exhaussement: elevation, erection (action of raising up)
exhausser: to raise up, erect (a building)
exhausteur: enhancer (for the carburator)
exhausteur de goût: flavor enhancer, flavour enhancer
exhaustif: exhaustive
exhaustivement: exhaustively
exhaustivité: exhaustiveness
exhiber: to exhibit; to show, show round, show off; to show off, flaunt, strut one's stuff
exhibition: exhibition, friendly; presentation, production; showing off, outrageous behaviour
exhibitionnisme: exhibitionism
exhibitionniste: exhibitionist
exhilarant: exhilarant
exhortation: an exhortation
exhorter: to exhort
exhumation: exhumation
exhumer: to exhume
exhérédation: disinheritance
exhéréder: to disinherit
exigeant: demanding; exacting; strict
exigence: demand
exiger: to demand, require
exigibilité: enforceability (of a debt)
exigible: exigible, enforceable
exigu: small, tiny, poky, exiguous
exiguïté: smallness, crampedness
exigüité: post-1990 spelling of exiguïté
exil: exile
exiler: to exile, to banish; to go into exile
exilé: exile (someone in exile)
exilé: exiled, in exile
exinscrit: exinscribed
existant: existing, being; existent; extant, in existence
existence: existence; life
existentialisme: existentialism
existentialiste: existentialist