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plein-emploi: full employment
pleine lune: full moon
pleinement: completely, all over
pleins gaz: pedal to the metal
pleins pouvoirs: full powers; power of attorney
plessimétrique: pleximetric
plessimétriquement: pleximetrically
pleur: cry (action of producing tears)
pleural: pleural
pleurant: weeping
pleurard: crybaby
pleurard: crying
pleure-pain: a miser, especially one who withholds food from themselves or others
pleurer: to cry, to weep; to shed tears; to mourn, to cry for
pleurer comme une madeleine: to bawl, especially exaggeratedly; to cry one's eyes out; to cry like a baby
pleurer des larmes de sang: to cry bitter tears
pleurer sur le lait renversé: to cry over spilt milk
pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps: to cry one's eyes out, to cry profusely
pleurer à chaudes larmes: to cry one's eyes out, to weep buckets
pleureur: weeping
pleureur: crier; weeper one who cries or weeps; crybaby
pleureuse: professional mourner
pleurite: pleuritis
pleurnichard: crybaby; sniveller
pleurnichard: whingeing
pleurnicher: to whine (to complain or protest in a childish manner or about trivial things)
pleurnicherie: whine
pleurnicheur: sniveller
pleurobranche: pleurobranch
pleurodynie: pleurodynia
pleuronecte: pleuronectid
pleuronectidé: pleuronectid
pleuropneumonie: pleuropneumonia
pleurote: oyster mushroom
pleurotomie: pleurotomy
pleurésie: pleurisy
pleurétique: pleuritic
pleutre: coward
pleutre: cowardly
pleutrement: cowardly
pleuviner: to drizzle
pleuvioter: to drizzle
pleuvoir: to rain
pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse: to rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock, to piss it down
pleuvoir des cordes: to rain cats and dogs (to rain heavily)
pleuvoir des hallebardes: to rain heavily; to rain cats and dogs
pleuvoir à boire debout: to rain cats and dogs (to rain very heavily)
pleuvoir à seaux: to rain buckets (to rain heavily)
pleuvoir à verse: to rain heavily, to send out in a stream or a flood
plexiglas: Plexiglas
plexus: plexus
pli: fold; pleat; letter; trick
pliable: pliable
pliage: folding (the act of folding something)
pliant: pliant
pliant: folding chair, seat, etc.
plie: plaice
plie commune: European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
plie d'Europe: European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
plier: to fold (bend (something) over; arrange by folding); to fold up; to bend; to mess up; to do in; to damage; to kill, kill off (a game)