Word origins

• menudoA traditional Mexican soup made with tripe and chili peppers.
• CiprianoA surname from Spanish.
• CotabatoA province of Soccsksargen, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Kidapawan.
• EspejoA surname from Spanish.
• BlancasA surname from Spanish.
• TeruelA city, the provincial capital of Teruel, Spain.
• ballyhooSensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
• PorrasA surname from Spanish.
• milagrosA municipality of Masbate, Philippines.
• AlitaA female given name from Spanish.
• PapagoA Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People").
• CorrientesA province in northeastern Argentina.
• vaqueroA cowboy; a herdsman.
• bosalA type of noseband used on a horse.
• arangoA rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
• cevicheRaw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America.
• MaritzaA female given name
• AvalosA surname from Spanish.
• novilloA young bull (fought by a novillero).
• CebuanoPertaining to the Cebuano language or to its speakers.
• nuncioThe ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
• abogadoCounsel; advisor; counselor; barrister.
• mamacitaA babe, a hottie (sexually attractive woman).
• SastreA surname from Spanish.
• YbarraA surname.
• pintaA pint of milk.
• BarahonaA surname.
• TeotihuacanA vast archeological site in Mexico
• chupaA unit of volume equivalent to around 375 mL.
• LozadaA surname from Spanish.
• FlorezFlórez: A surname from Spanish.
• paramoA treeless grassland ecosystem covering extensive high areas of equatorial mountains, especially in South America.
• LedesmaA surname.
• temescalA sweat lodge or temazcal
• QuirozA surname from Spanish.
• granoA traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.
• cordovanOriginating in or pertaining to Córdoba.
• altiplanoa high plateau
• EscorialEl Escorial, a royal palace in Madrid.
• benoAn alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
• IsletaAn unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States.
• ROCEsA neighbourhood of Gijón, Asturias, in northwestern Spain.
• PasosA surname from Spanish.
• calafateThe barberry, shrubs belonging to the genus Berberis.
• JosueA surname from Spanish.
• nutriaThe coypu, Myocastor coypus.
• gritoA Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.
• MogollonA member of a pre-Columbian culture that existed from 300 CE to 1300 CE in the desert of present day Arizona.
• UgarteA surname.
• CheetosA snack made from pieces of crunchy, cheese-flavored extruded cornmeal, originally from the US, now distributed globally.
• caciqueA tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.
• MexicaA member of an indigenous people of the Americas
• AntoninoA surname.
• ZapotecA member of an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca and spread into some neighbouring states.
• poblanoA mild green chile pepper native to Mexico; when dried, the chilis are called anchos or chiles anchos (“wide chilis”).
• EusebioA surname.
• beezernose
• perfectaA kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.
• OlazabalA surname.
• CharoA surname from Spanish.
• TesuqueOf or pertaining to the Tesuque people.
• TeresitaA female given name from Spanish.
• MagallonA surname from Spanish.
• tamarinOne of a family of squirrel-sized South American monkeys of the genus Saguinus.
• RinconadaA ranchería in Tasquillo municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico.
• MontalbanA surname from Spanish.
• TlaxcalaAn indigenous Mesoamerican polity in what is now Mexico.
• corregidorThe chief magistrate of a Spanish town or one in the Spanish Empire.
• IrizarryA surname.
• ArguelloA surname from Spanish.
• buncoA swindle or confidence trick.
• BulacanA province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Malolos. Largest city: San Jose del Monte.
• latinoamericanoA Latin American.
• ReynosaA city in Tamaulipas, Mexico, located on the Mexico–United States border.
• ObregonA surname from Spanish
• javelinaA peccary (Tayassuidae spp.), especially a collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu).
• MondragonA surname from Spanish.
• ZarateA surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
• HenaresA river in Spain, tributary of the Jarama, in the village of Horna, in the province of Guadalajara.
• LucenaA surname from Spanish
• pawpawAny member of the genus Asimina of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
• infantaThe daughter of a king in Spain or Portugal.
• puduA very small South American deer of the genus Pudu (in some classifications divided to Pudu and Pudella), native to the Andes.
• camarillaA secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
• campesinoAn agricultural worker in Latin America.
• TolentinoA surname.
• BayonA surname from Spanish.
• CornejoA surname from Spanish.
• compadreA friend or companion.
• manchegoA firm, compact cheese made in the La Mancha region of Spain, aged for between 60 days and two years and made from the milk of Manchega sheep.
• CavazosA surname from Spanish.
• BollaA surname.
• ConradoA surname.
• telenovelaA television soap opera presented as a miniseries.
• cardonAny of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.
• barillaAny of several not closely related saltmarsh plants that were once burnt to obtain soda ash, such as Soda inermis.
• UrrutiaA surname.
• LilloA surname.
• MoncadaA surname.
• dulcineasweetheart, ladylove