Politiquero: a professional politician: used derogatively.
Porotos: beans.
Porteño: native of “the port”: usually, of Valparaiso.
Pudu: the miniature deer of South Chile.
Pulpería: store at a mine or nitrate oficina.
Puno: mountain sickness due to rarefied air: more commonly called soroche in Peru and Bolivia.
Puntarrense: native of Punta Arenas.
Puya (Puya chilensis, formerly listed as Pourretia coarctata): group of plants common in Chile, belonging to the genus Bromeliacrae, different varieties bearing light or dark blue or yellow flowers arranged in a huge spike; large orange stamens. The spiny leaves form a thick rosette at the base, in a form similar to that of the related pineapple. Feature of landscape in Central Chile, on spurs of hills. The light pith of the mature stem of the tall flower-spike, more buoyant than cork, is used for fishing floats and for sharpening razors.
Quelghen: the Chilean native strawberry, remains white when ripe, very sweet.
Quila: the small climbing bamboo of the South.