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3,347 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

liquidité: liquidity
liquoreux: syrupy
liquoriste: distiller; liqueur seller
liquéfacteur: liquefier
liquéfaction: liquefaction
liquéfiable: liquefiable
liquéfier: to liquefy/liquify
lire: to read; to be read
lire: lira (unit of currency)
lire dans les pensées: to read someone's mind
lire en quelqu'un comme dans un livre ouvert: to read like a book, to read like an open book
lire entre les lignes: to read between the lines
lire sur les lèvres: to lipread
lis: lily
lis de mer: sea daffodil (Pancratium maritimum L.)
lisbonnais: Lisboner
lisbonnin: Lisboner
lisboète: Lisboner
liseron: bindweed (trailing vine-like plants, of the genera Calystegia and Convolvulus)
liseré: border, edging
lisette: a young mackerel; a parasite that eats vine buds
lisette: a long waistcoat.
liseur: reader (one who reads); habitual reader; bookworm
liseuse: female equivalent of liseur; a nightgown, a bedjacket, a garment useful when reading in bed; a small paperknife used to open uncut books, also useful as a bookmark; a dust jacket (removable book cover); a reading lamp
lisibilité: legibility; readability
lisible: legible; readable
lisiblement: readably; legibly
lisier: liquid manure, farm slurry
lisière: border, selvage; edge
lissage: smoothing, polishing
lisse: smooth
lisse: stringer (horizontal timber that supports upright posts or the hull of a vessel)
lisser: to smooth; to level; to straighten
lisseté: smoothness
lisseur: hair straighteners (pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair)
listage: listing (of a program etc)
liste: list
liste Swadesh: Swadesh list
liste d'attente: waiting list
liste de diffusion: mailing list
liste de fréquence: frequency list
liste de lecture: playlist (list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service)
liste de suivi: watchlist
liste déroulante: dropdown list (user interface control GUI element similar to a list box which allows the user to choose one value from a list)
liste noire: blacklist; block list
liste électorale: electoral register, electoral roll (list of all the people who are entitled to vote for particular elections in a particular jurisdiction)
listel: listel; fillet (space between two flutings in a shaft)
lister: list (to create a list)
listing: listing
listrique: listric
listéria: listeria
listériose: listeriosis
lisztien: Lisztian
lisérer: to edge with ribbon
lit: bed; layer
lit de camp: camp bed, cot
lit de justice: bed of justice (special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered)
lit de mort: deathbed
lit de sangle: trestle bed, stump bedstead
lit pliant: sofa bed; camp bed