Word origins

• ComecrudanOf or relating to a group of possibly related extinct languages that were spoken in the southernmost part of Texas and in northern Mexico along the Rio Grande.
• commandancyA comandancia; a commandery.
• Conejos CountyOne of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Conejos.
• cool arrowAn asshole (especially in the context of a jocular phonetic reception by an American of a Hispanic saying the Spanish word culero, meaning "asshole").
• cooncanA card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
• CoralesA surname from Spanish.
• correctamundocorrect
• CostanoanA member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
• costeeA quadroon.
• curaçaoA liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.
• Del NorteA statutory town, the county seat of Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States.
• Del RioA census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
• DelrosarioA surname from Spanish.
• DiabloerA player of the Diablo series of action role-playing dungeon crawler video games.
• Diablo windA hot, dry (downslope) wind from the northeast that occurs in northern and central California, sometimes causing firestorms.
• disembogueTo come out into the open sea from a river etc.
• Doña Ana CountyOne of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Las Cruces.
• DoritoA tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
• El AstilleroA town and municipality near Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
• El CentroA city, the county seat of Imperial County, California, United States. It is the largest city in the United States that is below sea level.
• el cheapoCheap; inexpensive; of low quality.
• El GranadaA census-designated place in San Mateo County, California, United States.
• El MaceroAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
• El SegundoA city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
• embargeTo put in a barge.
• EquatoguineanEquatorial Guinean
• Esmeralda CountyOne of 16 counties in Nevada, United States. County seat: Goldfield.
• EthpañaSpain
• exactamundoExactly.
• fairmaidA mermaid from a blackwater creek or river.
• Farallon RockAn island of Trinidad and Tobago.
• fiestavalA Latin American cultural festival.
• Filipin@A Filipino (“m”) or Filipina (“f”).
• FilipinxA Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).
• fizgigA flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt.
• Frio CountyOne of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Pearsall.
• gambadoEither of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle.
• gantaA unit of volume equivalent to eight chupas.
• Gaspar GrandeAn island of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Gasparilla IslandAn island on the west coast of Florida, United States; a barrier island.
• Gasparillo IslandAn island off the west coast of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
• gauchesqueOf or relating to the literary style associated with the gauchos.
• gayelleAn informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.
• gibaroThe offspring of a Spaniard and a Native American.
• GoâveA former city of the French colony of Sainte-Domingue, divided into the present-days communes of Petit-Goâve and Grand-Goâve.
• guaiacumAny of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas.
• guayabaThe guava (tree or fruit).
• guayabiA large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.
• guazilSynonym of vizier.
• hackamoreA kind of bridle with no bit.
• HatagueA surname from Spanish.
• hayhennyA small biting midge (especially in Latin America); a noseeum.
• hemodonationDonation of blood.
• henequenA tropical American agave, Agave fourcroydes, whose thick, sword-shaped leaves yield a coarse reddish fibre used in making rope etc.
• hornitoA low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, emitting smoke and vapours from its sides and summit.
• Huerfano CountyOne of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Walsenburg.
• IbicencanPertaining to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza.
• IbithaIbiza
• infanteerA soldier employed in any infantry role; an infantryman.
• infantierA soldier in the infantry; an infantryman.
• IztaccíhuatlA mountain in central Mexico, the third-highest peak in Mexico.
• jacklightA spotlight or lamp mounted on a car, boat or pole, etc. to aid in hunting.
• jameoA large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.
• JovanniA male given name from Spanish.
• JuaristaA follower of Benito Juárez during the period of resistance to the French occupation.
• Key LargoAn island in the Florida Keys, the largest significant cay in the archipelago in Florida, United States.
• Laguna SecaA lake, a seasonal lake in the county of Monterrey
• La JuntaA city and municipality, the county seat of Otero County, Colorado, United States.
• La Plata CountyOne of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Durango.
• Las AnimasA statutory city, the county seat of Bent County, Colorado, United States.
• Las Animas CountyOne of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Trinidad.
• Las CuevasA village and municipality in Diamante district, Entre Ríos province, Argentina.
• La VerkinA city in Washington County, Utah, United States.
• LeanoA surname from Spanish.
• leppyA young animal, particularly a cow calf or bull calf, a lamb, or a colt, which has been abandoned or orphaned.
• LlanitoA Gibraltarian.
• Llano EstacadoA mesa region in eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
• loco mocoA traditional Hawaiian meal, usually of white rice topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and gravy.
• locoweedAny of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.
• longanizaA type of Spanish sausage.
• Los AlamosA census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
• Los LunasA village, the county seat of Valencia County, New Mexico, United States.
• LucayanOne of the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of Europeans.
• machacaA dish of meat baked, simmered and then dried, originating from north Mexico.
• MadrilenianOf or pertaining to Madrid, Spain, or to its inhabitants.
• Mama TataA Christian syncretistic religion, combining Catholicism and animism, found in parts of Panama and popular among the Guaymí people.
• MancheganA native or inhabitant of the La Mancha region (formerly province) of Spain.
• ManolosA pair of shoes designed by Manolo Blahnik.
• ManuelitoA surname from Spanish.
• MarianismoThe concept, found in Latin American folk culture, that a virtuous woman should emulate the Virgin Mary in piousness, sexual purity, modesty, etc.
• MarinduqueñoOf, or pertaining to Marinduque.
• mariposa lilyAny member of several species in the genus Calochortus that grow in dry grasslands and semideserts, characterized as tuliplike, bulbous herbs with large and often brightly colored blossoms.
• MarquezianOf or relating to Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian writer.
• MasbateñoOf, or pertaining to Masbate.
• matafundaA type of siege engine similar to a trebuchet, designed to fling rocks over long distances.
• MayorkasA surname from Spanish.
• MecayapanA town in Veracruz, Mexico.
• MenezA surname.
• MilagrosaA barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
• mooterA disputer of a mooted case.