English words from Portuguese
- gallivatA small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
- gogletA jar or vase of porous pottery for keeping water cool by evaporation.
- imbuzeiroA hog plum (Spondias mombin), native to the tropical Americas.
- ItaboraianOf, pertaining to or occurring within the Itaboraian age.
- jagunçoA hired gunman in backland Brazil; a militiaman or bodyguard; a bandit or outlaw.
- jerepigoA sweet fortified wine.
- kabufudaSmall, rigid Japanese playing cards, a single deck consisting of 40 cards with values ranging from 1 to 10, used for playing hand-comparing betting games such as oicho-kabu.
- KiririA member of an indigenous people of eastern Brazil.
- Lagoa das Sete CidadesSynonym of Sete Cidades.
- Los IslandsAn island group lying off Conakry in Guinea, on the west coast of Africa.
- macambiraA thorny shrub, Bromelia laciniosa, of the pineapple family, native to Brazil and Argentina.
- mãe-de-santoA priestess of an Afro-Brazilian religion.
- malamboAn old Argentine dance.
- marrabentaA genre of popular Mozambican dance music.
- micropatriologyThe study of micronations and micronationalism.
- milreisA former currency of Portugal (until 1911).
- moidoreAn old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732.
- moioA traditional Portuguese dry measure, equal to about 0.78–1.15 m³ at different places and times.
- MoroccusMorocco.
- mort de chienCholera.
- ovidoreA kind of official in Portuguese India.
- padrãostone pillar, usually with a cross, inscribed with the coat of arms of Portugal, placed as a land claim along the coasts of Africa and Asia by numerous Portuguese explorers
- pandeiroA type of hand-held frame drum with a round wooden frame and six pairs of metal discs fit along the sides, and an animal skin or nylon head; similar to a tambourine but with head tension that can be tuned and crisper, drier, and less sustained jingles, used in a number of Brazilian music forms.
- pastel de nataPortuguese custard tart
- patraoboss, master (in a Portuguese environment)
- pau d'arcoTabebuia, the ipê tree.
- piassavaA fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba), formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes.
- pitangueiraA Suriname cherry tree, Eugenia uniflora, native to the east coast of South America.
- pluricontinentalismA geopolitical concept according to which Portugal was a unified nation-state spanning multiple continents.
- Porto InglêsFormer name of Cidade do Maio, though it is colloquially still uses
- PríncipeAn island which forms part of São Tomé and Príncipe
- sagueirPalm wine made from the sap of the sugar palm, Arenga pinnata.
- sambadromeIn Brazil, a building or place where samba schools parade during the period of Carnival.
- sapucaiaA Brazilian tree, the monkey pot (any of several species in the genus Lecythis).
- serradillaA common flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa.
- sertanejoIn Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
- Sete CidadesA twin-lake situated in the crater of a massive volcano on the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
- SetúbalA district in central Portugal.
- surucucuA venomous pit viper, the bushmaster.
- TarrafalA city in northern Santiago, Cape Verde; the seat of the municipality of Tarrafal.
- teekA telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
- Terra NovaA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- testoneAn ancient subunit of a Portuguese cruzado.
- Timor-LesteEast Timor (a country in Southeast Asia occupying half the island of Timor)
- umburanaA species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.
- UniforA large general trade union in Canada.
- vellardA causeway.
- Viana do CasteloA district in northwestern Portugal.
- Vila RealA city and municipality of Vila Real district, Portugal.
- vinhaticoThe Madeira mahogany; Persea indica.
- vinho verdeAny instance of a type of wine (often white wine but sometimes rosé wine or red wine) produced in the Minho region of northern Portugal.
- xique-xiqueA species of tree cactus, Pilosocereus gounellei, of northern Brazil.
- yacareA caiman (Caiman yacare), indigenous to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.