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province: province; the countryside; or more broadly, the rest of metropolitan France, outside Paris
provincial: provincial
provincial: person from the provinces/regions
provincialement: provincially
provincialisme: provincialism
proviseur: headmaster (of a secondary school)
provision: provision
provision technique: technical provision
provisionnel: provisional
provisionnellement: provisionally
provisionner: to fund, set aside funds for
provisoire: temporary (for a limited time, ephemeral, not constant); provisional
provisoirement: for the time being; provisionally
provitamine: provitamin
provoc: clipping of provocation
provocant: provocative, inflammatory
provocateur: provocateur, provoker; one who provokes
provocateur: provocative, inflammatory
provocation: provocation
provoquant: alternative spelling of provocant
provoquer: to provoke, bring on, bring about
provéditeur: proveditor
proximité: proximity; coming up
proxène: a proxenos: public foreigner
proxémie: proxemics
proxémique: proxemic
proxénie: proxeny
proxénète: procurer, pimp
proxénétisme: proxenetism, pimping
proédrie: Official's seat in the first row.
proéminence: prominence
proéminent: prominent
pruche: hemlock (tree of Tsuga genus)
prud'homie: probity
prud'homme: a master craftsman or expert; prud'homme (male member of employment tribunal)
prude: prude
prudemment: prudently
prudence: prudence, caution, care
prudence est mère de sûreté: discretion is the better part of valour, diffidence is the right eye of prudence, better safe than sorry
prudent: prudent
prudentiel: prudential
pruderie: prudery
prudhomie: nonstandard spelling of prud'homie
prudhomme: alternative spelling of prud'homme
prudhommie: post-1990 spelling of prud'homie
pruine: bloom (powdery coating)
pruinosité: pruinescence
pruiné: pruinose
prune: plum; ticket (traffic citation)
pruneau: prune (dried plum); slug (piece of metal fired from a gun)
prunelier: post-1990 spelling of prunellier
prunelle: sloe (small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn); sloe gin; pupil; iris and pupil together; eye; a type of cloth
prunelle de ses yeux: apple of someone's eye (a favourite, a particular preference, or a loved one)
prunellier: blackthorn; sloe (Prunus spinosa)
prunier: plum, plum tree
prurigineux: pruritic, pruriginous
prurigo: prurigo
prurit: itch, itchiness; itch, in the sense of a desire or want
prussiate: prussiate
prussien: Prussian (language)