Word origins

• FrancienOf or relating to the dialect of Old French spoken in Île-de-France and its surrounding areas.
• FrancitanThe French language mixed with Occitan.
• francizationSynonym of Frenchification (“the act or process of making or becoming more French, particularly in Quebecois contexts”).
• francizeSynonym of frenchify, to make French or more French-like.
• FrançoisA male given name from French, equivalent to English Francis.
• franc-tireurA member of the irregular military formations deployed by France during the early stages of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71).
• FransaskoisPertaining to the francophone and French Canadian population of Saskatchewan.
• frappéA frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer.
• FrasneA commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
• free verseA poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.
• FregeauA surname from French.
• FreminA surname from French.
• FrémontA lake in the city of La Tuque, Mauricie, Quebec, Canada; in full, Lac Frémont.
• French LouisianaThe French vast colony of Louisiana in North America, part of New France, sold to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
• French RepublicOfficial name of France: a country in Western Europe.
• French tacoA press-grilled wrap sandwich originating from France, around Lyon: a type of burrito, where the filling is fully wrapped in the taco round flatbread, the wheat tortilla bread, without any open end, and filled with French fries, cheese sauce, a meat or alternative, and other sandwich fillings.
• French West AfricaA federation of former French colonies in West Africa existing from 1895 to 1958, consisting of Dahomey (Benin), French Guinea (Guinea), the French Sudan (Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso).
• frescadeA cool walk.
• friabilityThe quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.
• fricadelleSynonym of frikadelle, often in French contexts.
• fricandeauThinly sliced meat, especially veal, fried or stewed with a sauce; a fricassee.
• fricotA traditional Acadian stew made with potatoes, onions, and meat with dumplings.
• frigorieA unit of rate of extraction of heat, used in refrigeration, equal to one calorie per hour.
• FrimaireThe third month of the French Republican Calendar, from November 21, 22 or 23 to December 20, 21 or 22.
• fripperA dealer in frippery (old clothes).
• fripperyOstentation, as in fancy clothing.
• frippishGaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.
• friseurA hairdresser.
• frisketA thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
• frisureThe dressing of the hair by curling.
• frizetteA fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
• froideurA cold or indifferent manner.
• fromage blancA creamy soft cheese made with whole or skimmed milk and cream.
• fromagerA cheese merchant.
• fromagerieA cheese shop.
• fromagierA person who makes cheese.
• fromagophileSynonym of turophile.
• FromaseA protease produced by the soil fungus Rhizomucor miehei, used as a vegetarian alternative to chymosin in the manufacture of some cheeses.
• frondeurA political rebel
• froteTo rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
• frottageTo rub, especially to rub onto one surface placed upon another surface that is textured, in order to create a mottled or patterned area on the first surface.
• frotteurOne who commits an act of frotteurism.
• frozen vacherinSynonym of vacherin glacé
• FructidorThe twelfth and final month of the French Republican Calendar, from August 18 or 19 to September 16 or 17.
• FructidorianA member or supporter of the group which took power in the coup d'état during the month of Fructidor 1797.
• frugivoreAn animal whose diet is mostly fruit.
• FSBKThe French Superbike Championship (France)
• fuchsineA dye (rosaniline hydrochloride, C₂₀H₁₉N₃·HCl) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
• fulmineTo thunder or lightning.
• fumetA type of concentrated food stock that is added to sauces to enhance their flavour. Variations are fish fumet and mushroom fumet.
• fumetteThe unpleasant odour or taste of old game meat.
• fumigatoryHaving the quality of fumigating.
• fumoirsmoking room (room reserved for smokers)
• funambulistA tightrope walker or a similar performer on a slack rope.
• funestCausing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
• furibundHaving a propensity to be furious; choleric, irate.
• furnimentAccoutrements, fittings.
• furniture musicBackground music originally played by live performers.
• fusainFine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
• fusaroleSynonym of astragal
• fusibilityThe ease with which a material will melt.
• fusillyHaving fusils.
• fustetA smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria).
• GabarreA surname.
• GabarrotA surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
• gabelleA tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
• gadroonAny of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
• gaieté de cœurLightheartedness; playfulness.
• GailletA surname from French.
• GajanA village in Ariège department, France.
• galbeThe contour or outline of something.
• galèreAn undesirable, difficult, or burdensome situation.
• GalibiSynonym of Kari'na (“An indigenous people native to the north coast of South America”).
• GalifronA character in "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks".
• galimatiasNonsense, gobbledygook.
• galipotAn unrefined turpentine obtained from some European pines
• gallerianA galley slave.
• galleristThe owner or operator of an art gallery
• galliardisegaiety; merriment
• gallicismA loanword borrowed from French.
• galliotA light galley.
• galloonA braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
• gallopinAn underservant in the kitchen; a scullion, or cook's errand boy.
• Galois theoryThe branch of mathematics dealing with Galois groups, Galois fields, and polynomial equations. It provides a link between field theory and group theory: it permits certain problems in the former to be reduced to the latter, which in some respects is simpler and better understood.
• galopinA boy employed in a kitchen.
• galoubetA kind of French flute.
• galuchatfine sharkskin leather
• galvanismThe chemical generation of electricity.
• gamaheA talisman bearing a word, number or diagram rather than an image.
• gamahucheOral sex, especially cunnilingus.
• gamashesHigh boots or buskins.
• gambadeThe leap of a horse.
• gambetAny bird of the obsolete genus Totanus, now principally in genus Tringa, including many called tattlers.
• gamineA (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.
• gaminerieimpishness
• Gand IslandAn island of Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
• gantéGloved; wearing gloves.
• garagistA French car mechanic or garage worker.
• garancineA manufactured product of madder, used as a dye.
• GaratA surname from French.