Word origins

• Port RoyalA town and former capital of Jamaica.
• PortuñolA mix of Portuguese and Spanish.
• posaderoAn innkeeper in a Spanish-speaking place.
• PotonicoA town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
• pozoleA traditional Mexican soup, made from hominy, pork, chilli and other ingredients.
• pozoleriaA restaurant which specializes in pozole.
• practicoA guide (person who guides).
• primaveralRelating to or characteristic of early spring.
• pringáA dish from Andalusia, consisting of meat that has been slowly cooked for a long time until it falls apart easily.
• privilegiadoOne who has special privileges.
• pronunciamentoA manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation.
• pronunciamientoA military uprising or coup in Spain or the Spanish American republics, particularly in the 19th century, usually accompanied by a statement declaring the existing government null and void.
• provedoreA person or business that provides supplies, particularly food and beverages.
• PSUVThe United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
• P UAn interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent.
• pucheroA kind of stew of Spanish origin.
• Puerto El TriunfoA town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
• Puerto GaleraA municipality of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
• Puerto MonttA city and commune in Llanquihue province, Los Lagos region, Chile.
• Puerto PeñascoA small city in Sonora, Mexico.
• Puerto PrincesaA city, the provincial capital of Palawan, Mimaropa, Philippines.
• Puerto RealA city in Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain.
• Puerto RicoA self-governing commonwealth and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean.
• PuertorriqueñoPuerto Rican
• Puerto SuárezA municipality and inland river port in Santa Cruz department, Bolivia.
• Puerto VallartaA resort city in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, on the Bahia de Banderas, Pacific.
• pulgadaA traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 2.3 cm
• PululuyaA river in El Salvador.
• pulvillioA kind of perfumed cosmetic powder, applied to the skin, hair or wig.
• pundonorSynonym of point of honor (both senses)
• pungleTo pay or hand over; to shell out
• Punta CanaA resort town in La Altagracia, Dominican Republic.
• Punta ChuecaA town in Sonora, Mexico.
• Punta Gordathe name of some points (landforms).
• puntillaThe small dagger for administering the coup de grâce to the bull.
• puntilleroA bullfighter who finally kills the bull with a blow of a knife.
• Punto FijoA city in Falcón state, Venezuela.
• pupusaA thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.
• PurecoA surname from Spanish.
• PutlaA town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Putrea Chilean city
• quadroonA person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
• quaveTo quiver or tremble.
• quebrachoAny of several trees of southern South America with produce very hard wood rich in tannin, especially those of the genus Schinopsis.
• QuechajajaA mountain in the northern extensions of the Vilcanota mountain range in the Andes of Peru, rising to approximately 5,000 metres.
• quedanWarehouse receipt issued for stored commodities, especially sugar.
• queen oliveA superior kind of olive grown in Spain. It is large and oblong, with a small but long pit and a delicate flavour, and is cured when green.
• QuelepaA town in San Miguel department, El Salvador.
• quellioA ruff for the neck.
• queltehueSynonym of southern lapwing.
• quemaderoA place where Spanish heretics were executed by burning.
• quenaA traditional flute of the Andes.
• quenepaThe mamoncillo.
• quequisquenew cocoyam
• querenciaThe area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand.
• QuerétaroA state of Mexico.
• querpoThe inner or body garments; underwear.
• QuerubinA surname from Spanish.
• queso frescoA type of soft creamy white cheese originating in the Iberian peninsula.
• QuezaltepequeA town in La Libertad department, El Salvador.
• QuiapoA district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
• QuicenoA surname from Spanish.
• quijadajawbone (percussion instrument)
• quillaiQuillaja saponaria, the soapbark tree.
• quinceañeraThe fifteenth birthday and particularly the celebration and ceremony surrounding it for a young Latina woman.
• quinchaA traditional Latin American construction system that uses wood and cane or giant reed to form an earthquake-proof framework that is covered in mud and plaster.
• QuindeA surname from Spanish.
• QuindíoA river in Colombia, 69 kilometres (43 mi) long, which forms in the mountains east of Salento and flows to the southwest.
• quintroonThe offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
• quipuA recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
• quirquinchoThe armadillo.
• QuiteñaA woman from Quito, Ecuador.
• QuiteñoA person from Quito, Ecuador.
• RabagoA surname from Spanish.
• RabanalA surname from Spanish.
• RabanalesA surname from Spanish.
• rabonaA kick made with the kicking leg crossed behind the other leg.
• RadillaA surname from Spanish.
• RadilloA surname from Spanish.
• radionovelaA kind of Latin American radio soap opera, superseded by the telenovela.
• RaigozaA surname from Spanish.
• RamalesA surname from Spanish.
• RameroA surname from Spanish.
• ramoon-treeA West Indian tree related to the mulberry , Trophis racemosa.
• RapaloA surname from Spanish.
• rascacioThe black scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus).
• rasgueoA strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.
• ratoonA shoot sprouting from the root of a cropped plant, especially sugar cane.
• RaudaA surname.
• rayadilloA blue-and-white striped cotton or flannel material used to make the military uniforms worn by Spanish colonial soldiers from the mid 19th century until the early 20th Century.
• rayaditoEither of the two species of ovenbirds in the genus Aphrastura, native to southern South America.
• rayasA surname from Spanish.
• ReanoA surname from Spanish.
• rebozoA woman's garment of Mexico, a rectangular piece of fabric worn as a scarf or shawl and sometimes used to carry children or goods.
• rebujitoA drink made from manzanilla sherry and lemonade.
• RecaldeA surname.
• recibiendoA matador's technique of standing still so that the charging bull runs onto the sword.
• RecinosA surname from Spanish.
• reconcentradoIn Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.
• recordatoryRelating to recording; serving to record something.