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perchlorique: perchloric
perchloroéthylène: perchloroethylene
perchlorure: perchloride
perchoir: perch; roost; the seat of the President of the French National Assembly
perché: perched; high, intoxicated; not mentally sound, disconnected from reality
perciforme: perciform
perciforme: perch (fish)
perclus: crippled; paralysed
percnoptère: Egyptian vulture (of species Neophron percnopterus)
percolateur: percolator
percolation: percolation
percoler: to percolate
percomorphe: percomorph
percussion: percussion (tapping of the body); percussion
percussionniste: percussionist
percutant: percussive; that fragments on contact; striking, powerful, forceful
percutané: percutaneous
percuter: to hit; to crash into
percuteur: firing pin
percée: breakthrough; break, breakaway, counter-attack
perdable: losable
perdant: loser
perdition: perdition
perdre: to lose (be unable to find); to lose (not win); to get lost; to waste, to make bad use of something
perdre au change: to be worse off for it, to come out worse off, to lose out, to be short-changed
perdre connaissance: to lose consciousness, to pass out, to keel over, to faint
perdre de vue: to lose sight of; to lose sight of, to lose touch with
perdre du temps: to waste time
perdre du terrain: to lose ground
perdre espoir: to lose heart, to give up hope
perdre l'esprit: to lose one's mind
perdre la boule: to lose one's marbles
perdre la boussole: to lose one's bearings; to lose one's marbles
perdre la face: to lose face
perdre la main: to become out of touch, to lose one's touch, to lose the habit of doing something; to lose the advantage of going first
perdre la tête: to lose one's head, to take leave of one's senses, to lose one's mind
perdre la vie: to lose one's life (to die)
perdre le fil: to lose the thread
perdre le nord: to lose one's bearings, to be all at sea
perdre les eaux: to break water (to lose one's amniotic fluids just prior to delivery, to experience water breaking)
perdre les pédales: to lose it, to lose the plot, to lose one's mind
perdre patience: to lose patience, to lose one's patience
perdre pied: to get out of one's depth (to get in a body of water too deep for one to be able to touch the bottom)
perdre ses moyens: to become flustered, to go to pieces (to have a breakdown)
perdre son chemin: to get lost, to lose one's way (to become lost)
perdre son latin: to be confused, to be baffled, to be unsettled (by it, "it" being something previously mentioned)
perdre son sang-froid: to lose one's cool; to lose one's head
perdre son temps: to waste one's time
perdre une belle occasion de se taire: to put one's foot in one's mouth; to run one's mouth; to speak to one's detriment when one could have avoided commenting
perdreau: young partridge
perdrix: partridge (bird); quail
perdu: lost
perdu pour perdu: what the hell; why the hell not; things being as they are, one might as well… (we have lost everything, there's nothing left to lose, so anything is worth a try now)
perdurable: perdurable
perdurablement: perdurably
perdurer: to continue to exist, to last, to endure
perestroïka: perestroika
perf: performance
perf: perfusion
perfectibilité: perfectibility