Word origins

• banderilleroA member of the cuadrilla who uses banderillas.
• bandoreA historical stringed instrument similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
• 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.
• batacabat or club with heavy padding for sparring or therapeutic use without causing injury
• 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.
• BecentiA surname from Navajo [in turn from Spanish].
• 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.
• belhambraPhytolacca dioica, a tree related to pokeweed.
• 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.
• beso negroanilingus.
• BetetaA surname from Spanish.
• biajacaCichlasoma tetracantha, a Cuban cichlid fish.
• biajaibaThe lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris).
• bibliodiversityCultural diversity as applied to the world of writing and publishing.
• BicolanaA female native or inhabitant of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
• BicolanoA native inhabitant or resident of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
• BidoA surname from Spanish.
• bietapicTwo-stage.
• BinondoA district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
• birriaA Mexican dish of stewed meat (usually goat, beef or lamb; sometimes pork or chicken) and spices, typically served like a soup with (or sometimes in) tortillas.
• birrieriaA restaurant (or food truck, street cart, etc) that serves birria.
• bisnagaA plant in the celery family (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga) grown for its seeds, which have been used as an herbal medicine.
• bizcochitoA New Mexican crisp butter cookie, flavored with sugar, cinnamon, and anise.
• black legendHistoriographical phenomenon in which a sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting and introduction of fabricated, exaggerated and/or decontextualized facts is directed against particular persons, nations or institutions with the intention of creating a distorted and uniquely inhuman image of them.
• black sapoteA kind of fruit.
• blanqueamientoThe process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region, encouraging interracial marriage with white people, or enforcing white cultural norms on a population.
• blanquilloThe tilefish (Malacanthidae spp.).
• blue bloodNoble or aristocratic ancestry.
• Boca ChicaA municipality of the Dominican Republic.
• bocachicoA fish of species Prochilodus magdalenae.
• Boca RatonA city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
• bocaronesAnchovies or other small fish marinated in vinegar.
• bodegueroThe owner of a bodega.
• BogotáThe capital city of Colombia.
• BogotanA native or inhabitant of Bogota, Colombia.
• BogotazoThe riots that followed the 1948 assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
• bohíohut (a small timber dwelling with thatched roof)
• BojorquezA surname from Spanish.
• bolívarThe currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos.
• Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaOfficial name of Venezuela: a country in South America.
• Bolivian Yungasa tropical moist forest ecoregion in central Bolivia.
• Bolson tortoiseA large species of gopher tortoise, Gopherus flavomarginatus, found in parts of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico.
• BoluarteA surname from Basque.
• bombachasBaggy knee-breeches worn for horseriding in Brazil.
• bombicultureThe raising of bees for use as pollinators in agriculture, typically within hothouses.
• bonaciA large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the Caribbean. Grey, with an oblong, laterally compressed body, it is a food fish.
• boniatoA Cuban type of sweet potato with light-colored flesh that is drier and less sweet than the varieties typical in the US (Ipomoea batatas).
• borachioA drunkard.
• BorquezA surname from Spanish.
• BorrotoA surname from Spanish.
• bota bagA traditional Greek or Spanish wineskin bag. Typically it is made of leather, and is used to carry wine, although any liquid can be carried.
• botanaA Mexican appetiser.
• botijaA Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type, consisting of an earthenware jug or jar with two openings.
• botijoA traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.
• bozalA (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa.
• BrambilaA surname.
• brasiguayoAny of a number of people groups who have cultural or social ties to both Brazil and Paraguay.
• break-axeA South American hardwood, Sloanea jamaicensis
• break-bonesAny bird in the genus Macronectes, known as giant petrels.
• BribiescaA surname from Spanish.
• brigadistaA member of the Spanish International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales).
• BrizuelaA surname from Spanish.
• brujeríaWitchcraft, as performed in Latin America.