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motoréducteur
noun, masculine
gearmotor
mototracteur
noun, masculine
motorized tractor.
motrice
noun, feminine
railway train (typically diesel/electric, that has an engine and passengers in the same vehicle)
motricité
noun, feminine
motivity, motive power
mots croisés
noun, masculine
crossword (word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word)
mots fléchés
noun, masculine
arrowword (crossword puzzle with the clues written in the grid, accompanied by arrows that indicate the position and direction of the answers)
mots-croisiste
noun, masculine
One who solves crossword puzzles
motte
noun, feminine
motte (mound of earth); clod (lump of earth); block, lump (of food etc.); pubic mound, mons veneris
motton
noun, masculine
lump, clump, chunk; money, cash
motus
interjection
interjection to request silence; hush!, quiet!
mum's the word; one's lips are sealed
mou
noun, masculine
pliability, softness, mushiness; lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal) sold as lesser quality meat for cats or other pets; slack; something soft, pliable or mushy; a man lacking impetuousness and decision; a pansy, softy
mou
adjective
soft, pliable, flabby, mushy, squishy; lacking vigor or strength; tardy, slow, slack, weak; (of humans) easy to persuade, convince; pansy, spineless; causing or smacking of tardiness, indolence; debilitating; comfortable, soft
mou du genou
adjective
sluggish, listless, wet, halfhearted
mou du genou
noun, masculine
wet noodle, sluggard
mouais
interjection
not really; okay
mouarf
interjection
bow-wow, woof, the sound of a dog's bark
moucharabieh
noun, feminine
mashrabiyya
mouchard
noun, masculine
(espionage) snitch, grass, tell-tale (police informant); mouchard (undercover investigator); bug (hidden microphone); spyhole, peephole; tachograph (device that records the distance and time traveled by a vehicle)
mouchardage
noun, masculine
informing, grassing, ratting
to rat; to rat on; to tell tales
mouche
noun, feminine
fly (insect); bullseye (center of a target); (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas; bee; soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)
mouche de feu
noun, feminine
firefly
mouche du coche
noun, feminine
back-seat driver, kibitzer (person who pretends to be useful by offering unsolicited advice or by running around without actually doing any work)
mouche du vinaigre
noun, feminine
fruit fly
mouche luisante
noun, feminine
firefly
mouche à feu
noun, feminine
firefly
mouche à merde
noun, feminine
dungfly, bluebottle, greenbottle
mouche à miel
noun, feminine
bee, honeybee
mouche à scie
noun, feminine
sawfly
to blow (someone's) nose; to put someone in their place; to blow one's nose; to snuff out (a candle etc.)
moucherolle
noun, feminine
any of about fifty American species of insectivorous passeriform birds of the family Tyrannidae; tyrant flycatcher
moucheron
noun, masculine
gnat, midge; kid, nipper
to fleck
mouchette
noun, feminine
candle snuffer
moucheture
noun, feminine
fleck, speckle
moucheté
adjective
dappled, mottled; flecked, brindled
mouchoir
noun, masculine
handkerchief
mouchoir de poche
noun, masculine
a pocket handkerchief, a pocket square; a postage stamp (a very exiguous place)
mouchoir en papier
noun, masculine
paper handkerchief, tissue
mouclade
noun, feminine
mussel meal or festival
moudjahid
noun, masculine
mujahid
moudjahidin
noun, masculine
mujaheddin, mujahedeen, mujahideen
moudjahidine
noun, masculine
mujahideen
moudre
verb
to grind
moue
noun, feminine
pout, moue
moueddeb
noun, masculine
the head of a madrasa
mouette
noun, feminine
gull; seagull
mouette blanche
noun, feminine
ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)
mouette rieuse
noun, feminine
black-headed gull
moufette
noun, feminine
skunk
mouffette
noun, feminine
skunk
moufle
noun, feminine
mitten; polyspast
mouflet
noun, masculine
kid (child)
mouflon
noun, masculine
mouflon
to protest, complain
mougou
verb
to have sex with
mouharram
noun, masculine
Muharram (the first month of the Islamic calendar, when many Islamic communities hold a festival commemorating the deaths of the grandsons of Muhammad)
mouillage
noun, masculine
wetting (act of making something wet); watering down (act of adding water to something); anchoring (act of laying down an anchor)
mouillasse
noun, feminine
drizzle, light rain