English words from Spanish
- AtiquizayaA town in San Salvador department, El Salvador.
- AtlacomulcoA municipality of the State of Mexico, Mexico. Seat: Atlacomulco de Fabela.
- AtlánticoA department of Colombia.
- atoleA sweetened thick drink or thin gruel made from cornmeal, served hot.
- AudeloA surname from Spanish.
- ausubobalata tree
- autogolpeAn autocoup, especially one in a Spanish-speaking country.
- AvendanoA surname.
- aviadoOne who works a mine with means provided by another.
- ÁvilaA province in Castile and León, Spain. Capital: Ávila.
- AvilésA city on the coast of Asturias, Spain.
- ay ay ayUsed to express surprise or dismay.
- AyerbeA surname.
- AyllonA surname from Spanish.
- ayocoteThe runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus).
- AysénA state of Aysén, Chile.
- AyutuxtepequeA town in San Salvador department, El Salvador.
- AzacualpaA town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
- AzconaA surname.
- azogueSilver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury.
- AzpeitiaA surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
- AzqueltánA village in Jalisco, Mexico.
- AzuaraA surname from Spanish.
- AzurmendiA surname.
- babacoA fruit tree, related to the papaya and native to mountainous areas of Ecuador, Vasconcellea × heilbornii
- BacallaoA surname from Spanish.
- bacanoraA Mexican alcoholic beverage distilled from agave plants, made in the state of Sonora.
- bachateroA singer of bachata music.
- BachichaA surname from Spanish.
- BachillerA surname from Spanish.
- BacilioA surname from Spanish.
- BacolorA municipality of Pampanga, Philippines.
- BacoorA city in Cavite, Philippines.
- bagreAny of various types of catfish, located along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.
- bagualaA genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.
- baharequeConstruction material similar to adobe, consisting of clay or mud reinforced with sticks or canes.
- Bahía BlancaA coastal city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
- bailecitoA genre of traditional style of dance music of Bolivia and Northern Argentina in 6/8 time.
- BaizA surname from Spanish.
- Baja CaliforniaA peninsula in Mexico: A mountainous peninsula of western Mexico between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California; administered as the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.
- Bajo de MasinlocScarborough Shoal
- BalangaA city, the provincial capital of Bataan, Central Luzon, Philippines.
- BalanyáA municipality of Chimaltenango department, Guatemala.
- BalbuenaA surname from Spanish.
- balchéAn intoxicating beverage made by soaking the bark of the leguminous tree Lonchocarpus violaceus in honey and water and fermenting it.
- balconingThe act of jumping between the balconies of two hotel rooms; especially of tourists in Spain.
- BaldenegroA surname from Spanish.
- BalderramaA surname from Spanish.
- BaldovinosA surname from Spanish.
- BallesteroA surname from Spanish.
- balseroA refugee who travels from Cuba to America by sea.
- BaltodanoA surname from Spanish.
- bambucoA traditional music genre from Colombia, formed in the 19th and 20th centuries as a blend of Basque folk music and the European waltz.
- BanalesA surname from Spanish.
- banderillaA decorated barbed stick used in bullfighting to stick into the bulls' shoulders.
- banderilleroA member of the cuadrilla who uses banderillas.
- bandurriaA plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
- BanezA surname from Spanish.
- BarayA surname from Spanish.
- barbascoA plant (Lonchocarpus urucu, now Deguelia rufescens var. urucu) native to parts of northern South America used as a poison for fishing and an insecticide.
- BarracasA town in Castellón province, Valencia, Spain.
- barracoonA temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.
- barracudinaAny of the elongated ray-finned fish of the order Paralepididae.
- BarrenoA surname from Spanish.
- barriadaA shanty town or slum in any of several Peruvian cities
- barricoA small cask.
- barrigudoThe brown woolly monkey
- barro negroA style of pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico, distinguished by its black metallic sheen and unique designs.
- BarruetaA surname.
- BartolonA surname from Spanish.
- BasalduaA surname.
- BasalloteA surname from Spanish
- basculationThe replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
- bastinadoA blow with a cudgel or stick.
- batamoteseepwillow
- batatasweet potato (plant)
- batidoA Cuban smoothie-like beverage.
- BatresA surname from Spanish.
- BatrezA surname from Spanish.
- BayardoA surname from Spanish.
- Bay of PigsA bay in Southern Cuba, the site of a famous failed CIA invasion in 1961.
- becunaSphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.
- bejucoAny climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
- BelardoA surname.
- BelarraA surname from Spanish.
- BenasqueA city in Huesca, Aragon, Spain.
- beneficiateTo reduce (ores or other raw materials)
- BengoecheaA surname.
- BeristainA surname.
- BerlínA town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
- BermeoA surname.
- BernalesA surname.
- BerrellezaA surname from Spanish.
- berrendoA pronghorn.
- BerrioA surname.
- BerrocalA surname from Spanish.
- BerronesA surname from Spanish.
- BetetaA surname from Spanish.
- biajacaCichlasoma tetracantha, a Cuban cichlid fish.
- biajaibaThe lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris).