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2,287 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

note de crédit: credit note
note de cœur: middle note, heart note
note de débit: debit note
note de fond: base note
note de frais: expenses claim; expense account
note de passage: passing note
note de tête: head note, top note
note sensible: leading tone
note étrangère: nonchord tone
notebook: notebook computer (small, portable computer)
noter: to note; to notice (become aware); to grade (an exam, an assignment, etc.); to denote
notice: A set of instructions for that the assembling, functions, & maintenance of an appliance.; A short summary of a work or body of works.; An explicatory text that introduces a work; a preface or introduction.; A news article.
notification: notification
notifier: to notify
notion: notion; an elementary treatise
notochorde: notochord
notocordal: notochordal
notoire: well-known; notorious
notoirement: notoriously (in a notorious or notable manner)
notonecte: backswimmer
notopleure: notopleuron
notoriété: reputation
notoédrique: notoedric
nottinghamien: Nottinghamian
notule: short note
nouage: knotting
nouba: party, festival
nouchi: any of several French argots spoken in Africa
noue: marshy pasture
nouer: knot (form into a knot); tie, bind, fasten; tie up
noueur: knotter; one who inserts knots into something
noueux: gnarled, knotty
nougat: nougat (sweet confection with egg white and almonds or nuts); piece of cake; feet; rifle
nougatine: nougatine, brittle
nouille: noodle (string or strip of pasta); dumbhead; cock, dick
nouille de piscine: pool noodle
noumène: noumenon
nouméen: of Nouméa
noune: pussy, vulva
nounou: nanny
nounours: teddy bear; a very affectionate person
nourri: fed, nourished; heavy, sustained
nourrice: childminder, nanny; wet nurse; mule (person paid to smuggle drugs)
nourricier: nourishing, sustaining
nourrir: to feed (provide with nourishment), nourish; to nurture, to fuel; to eat, to feed oneself
nourrir son homme: to put food on the table, to pay the bills, to pay the rent (to be lucrative enough to live on, to be a good livelihood)
nourrir un serpent dans son sein: to nourish a viper in one's bosom
nourrissant: nourishing
nourrisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of nourrir
nourrisson: infant; baby; nursling (a child who breastfeeds); infant; toddler (young child)
nourriture: food, nourishment
nous: the plural personal pronoun in the first person:; we (as the royal we)
nous: the nous, (divine) reason in philosophy
nous autres: we (exclusive first-person plural pronoun — others and I but not you); we (inclusive or exclusive — you and I; you, others, and I; or others and I); us (objective case of we)
nous de majesté: royal we, majestic plural (plural used by a sovereign)
nous-autres: alternative spelling of nous autres (“we; us”)
nous-mêmes: ourselves
nouveau: new person, new thing
nouveau: new, novel
nouveau départ: fresh start