English words from Nahuatl
- tonalOf or relating to tones or tonality.
- ZacatecasA state of Mexico.
- OlmecA member of an ancient pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
- mazamaThe mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus)
- tucanThe hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).
- cacahuanancheA tree of the American tropics from Mexico to Brazil, Licania arborea, whose nuts produce an oil used for soap, candles, etc.
- ChimalhuacánA large city and municipality in the eastern part of the State of Mexico, Mexico.
- choloaliteAn isometric dark green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and tellurium.
- copalxocotlA plant used as soap in Aztec culture, probably Cyrtocarpa procera.
- eztliteA monoclinic blood-red mineral with the chemical formula Pb²⁺₂Fe³⁺₃(Te⁴⁺ O₃)₃(SO₄)O₂Cl.
- hoatzinA bird of the species Opisthocomus hoazin of the order Opisthocomiformes, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.
- nahualismThe Mesoamerican belief that certain human beings can transform into animals.
- oyamelAbies religiosa, the sacred fir, an evergreen coniferous tree of South America with needle-like leaves.
- PopolocaAny of several different indigenous languages of Mexico, including languages of the Mixe-Zoquean family and the Oto-Manguean family.
- PopolucaAny of various indigenous peoples of southeastern Veracruz and Oaxaca.
- quachtliA piece of standardized cloth used as currency in Mesoamerica until shortly after the arrival of Europeans.
- sapotaThe tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.
- tacamahacA bitter balsamic resin or resinous exudation obtained from tropical American trees of the family Burseraceae (Bursera tomentosa and Icica tacamahaca), from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, or from the balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera).
- teguAny of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.
- teguexinA large South American lizard with yellowish spots; a gold tegu.
- tlaplonA scalar field that acts as torsion potential.
- xochinacaztliThe earflower, Cymbopetalum penduliflorum, sometimes used by the Aztecs to flavour cocoa.
- xocomecatliteA telluride mineral found in cracks in altered rhyolite.
- XoloitzcuintleMexican hairless dog.