caliente

Spicy in Spanish

Caliente is Spanish for hot, borrowed into English primarily in the Southwest United States and in contexts involving Latin culture.

It describes temperature The salsa is caliente or, more commonly in English usage, sexual heat or attractiveness: Things got caliente on the dance floor.

The word often carries a playful or flirtatious tone.

spicy

chili

Capsicum pod or stew

jalapeñoMild-to-medium Mexican pepper
habaneroExtremely pungent chili variety
cayennePungent red spice

pepper · pungent · sriracha · salsa · piquant · hot sauce · picante · chipotle · serrano · piri piri

hot

temperature

Measured heat intensity

warmthHeat you feel
heatTransferred thermal energy
boilingLiquid vaporization temperature

steaming · sizzling · burning · scorching · sweltering · thermal · toasty · heated · blazing · feverish

passionate

ardent

Intensely enthusiastic or devoted

fieryIntensely hot or passionate
intenseExtreme in degree
ferventIntensely and sincerely felt

impassioned · heated · burning · vehement · enthusiastic · zealous · spirited · emotional · excited · amorous

caliente

chili

temperature

ardent

caliente

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