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poilade: amusement, fun, good laugh
poilant: funny, amusing
poile: nonstandard spelling of poêle
poiler: to laugh hard
poilu: poilu (French soldier during World War I)
poilu: hairy; brave, courageous; energetic
poincarisme: the politics of Raymond Poincaré
poincariste: an adherent of poincarisme
poindre: to prick, sting; to sting, afflict (of pain, love etc.); to come up (of a plant), peep through; to break, dawn (of day); to break (of dawn); to appear, spring up
poing: fist
poing américain: brass knuckles
poing-à-poing: fist bump
poingdestre: A right fist
point: not
point: point (small mark); point; full stop, period (punctuation mark); stitch pattern; dot (Morse code symbol)
point G: G-spot
point aveugle: blind spot (place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina)
point barre: period; full stop, end of discussion
point cardinal: cardinal point
point chaud: hot spot
point commun: common feature, shared trait, thing in common, similarity
point d'Angleterre: Brussels lace
point d'accumulation: accumulation point, limit point
point d'ancrage: anchor point (place to which things are anchored); anchor, anchor point (something that provides stability or a connection)
point d'articulation: place of articulation
point d'eau: water point, water source, watering place, watering hole
point d'entrée: entry point
point d'exclamation: exclamation mark, exclamation point
point d'expérience: experience point
point d'inflexion: inflection point, point of inflection (a point on a curve at which the sign of the curvature changes; at this point the second derivative of the underlying function will be zero, but positive on one side and negative on the other)
point d'interrogation: question mark (punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question)
point d'orgue: pause, fermata; climax, culmination, capstone
point d'ébullition: boiling point
point de Lagrange: Lagrange point
point de chute: landing place, dropzone (target where a skydiver lands); place to stay, place to crash, stopping-off point
point de collecte: collection point, pick-up point
point de contrôle: checkpoint
point de côté: stitch (pain in one's side)
point de départ: starting point; starting point, point of departure
point de fuite: vanishing point
point de fusion: melting point (temperature at which the solid and liquid phases of a substance are in equilibrium)
point de libration: libration point
point de mire: target, point of aim; focal point, cynosure
point de non retour: alternative spelling of point de non-retour
point de non-retour: point of no return; point of no return (moment when a process becomes irreversible)
point de passage: crossing point
point de percée: piercing point
point de prolongation: augmentation dot, dot of augmentation
point de ralliement: meeting point
point de rebroussement: cusp
point de repère: point of reference, landmark
point de rosée: dew point
point de suture: stitch (of surgical suture)
point de vente: point of sale; salespoint, retail outlet, sales outlet, outlet store (shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier)
point de vie: health point, life point, hit point
point de vue: point of view
point diplomatique: the punctuation ⟨ ./. ⟩, a full stop followed by a slash followed by another full stop, used in French-language diplomatic texts to indicate the end of a message; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see point, diplomatique.
point du jour: daybreak, dawn
point exclarrogatif: interrobang (the punctuation mark ‽)
point faible: weakness, weak spot