aspérité, n.f., asperity, roughness, ruggedness; harshness; unevenness.
aspersion, n.f., aspersion, sprinkling, besprinkling.
aspersoir, n.m., holy-water brush; rose (of a water-pot).
aspérule, n.f., (bot.) wood-ruff.
asphalte, n.m., asphalt, asphaltum.
asphaltique or asphaltite, adj., asphaltic, bituminous. Le lac —; the asphaltic lake, the Dead Sea.
asphodèle, n.m., (bot.) asphodel, king’s-spear, wild daffodil.
asphyxiant, adj., asphyxiating, suffocating.
asphyxie, n.f., (med.) asphyxy, suffocation, suspended animation.