Whether you have a cup of joe or are enjoying your roasted java and want to get your half-and-half, there are many words related to coffee that can boost your coffee vocabulary.
In this article, we look at the top 39 words related to coffee, what they mean, and how you can improve your coffee vocabulary and impress your fellow coffee drinkers.
What are the Top 39 Words Related to Coffee?
What are the Top General Coffee Words?
Here is a list of the top general words related to coffee:
- Brew – Coffee made by steeping and boiling, e.g., ‘Americano is my favorite type of brew.’
- Demitasse – A small cup of strong black coffee, taken straight, without milk or cream. Emphasis is placed on the size, which is smaller than a normal coffee cup.
- Java – A synonym for coffee, meaning a drink that includes ground coffee beans.
- Roast – To bring out the aroma and flavor that is locked inside the green coffee beans, e.g., a roasted cup of joe.
- Stimulant – The kick in coffee that wakes a person up, and can be synonymous with coffee.
- Blend – A blend of different types of coffee beans, e.g., ‘Can you put a pot of that blend for me, please?’
- Agrypnotic – Anything that creates wakefulness, such as a cup of coffee.
- Decoction – Decoction is the act of boiling anything to extract the flavor, and is another way to describe the process of boiling coffee.
What are the Top Coffee Words Based on Type?
Here is a list of the top words related to coffee type:
- Cappuccino – A coffee with espresso and hot milk, topped with cinnamon, nutmeg and whipped cream.
- Espresso – A strong black coffee brewed by shooting hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans.
- Decaf – Coffee without caffeine.
- Mocha – chocolate-flavored warm coffee, sometimes topped with whipped cream and chocolate drizzle.
- Mud – Mud coffee is essentially manual coffee brewing. To make it, you combine hot water with ground coffee in a mug or glass. Once it cools and the grounds have sunk to the bottom, it is drinkable.
- Café au Lait – A strong drip brewed or French pressed coffee, at the end of the preparation steamed milk is added.
- Café Noir – A type of coffee without milk or cream. It is also known as demitasse.
- Pour over – This type of coffee includes pouring hot water into a filter with coffee grinds to slowly extract a rich, flavorful cup of coffee.
- Latte – A strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed (what looks like a thick layer of foam) milk.
- Turkish coffee – Made by pulverizing coffee beans and is normally sweetened.
- Half-caff – A blend of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee beans, usually in a half-and-half ratio.
- Decaffeinated – Decaf is short for decaffeinated coffee, meaning that at least 97% of their caffeine has been removed.
- Americano – A type of coffee prepared by diluting espresso with hot water, giving it a similar strength to traditionally brewed coffee, but with a unique flavor.
- Parchment – The production of parchment coffee involves using a special type of machinery that separates the pulp, or the outer skin of the ripe coffee from the core of the coffee bean that produces the distinct parchment flavor brew.
- Drip coffee – A type of coffee made by passing boiling water through a filtered container with a layer of finely ground coffee.
- Café con leche – This type of coffee contains more espresso than different types of latte drinks.
- Half-and-half – A type of flavoring for a black cup of coffee, where half of an amount of whole milk and half of an amount of cream are mixed into the brew.
- Mochaccino – A cappuccino infused with chocolate flavoring.
What Are the Top Coffee Words Based on Slang?
Here is a list of the top words related to coffee slang:
- Flattie – The Flat White is topped by a ‘flat’ layer of steamed milk, and nothing else.
- Pick-me-up – Slang for coffee that cheers a person up or gives him more energy.
- Double-double – Black coffee that is given two creams and two sugars.
- Joe – As ‘Joe’ is a name used to describe a common person, and due to coffee’s increasing popularity through the years, coffee became a cup of joe because it was considered the common people’s drink.
- Forty weight – It’s an old term for coffee, meant to be moderately vague so people wouldn’t pick up on what it meant.
- Elevenses – a short break for coffee and a snack, taken at eleven o’clock in the morning.
What Are the Top Coffee Words Based on Color?
Here is a list of the top words related to coffee color:
- White – Coffee made white by adding sweetened condensed milk to black coffee. It’s whiteness was pushed further as no sugar or wheat was added to the beans while roasting, giving the beans a lighter shade during the roasting process, giving it another reason to be called ‘white’.
- Black – Coffee that is normally brewed without the addition of sugar, milk, cream, or any flavors. It is marked for its strikingly bitter taste that many people drink exclusively.
- Regular coffee – A type of coffee with cream and sugar added in, e.g., ‘I would like to order three regulars and three black coffees.’
What Are the Top Coffee Words Based on the Bean?
Here is a list of the top words related to coffee based on the bean:
- Robusta – Coffea canephora is a species of coffee with an origin in central and western sub-Saharan Africa. It is also known as Coffea robusta, and is scientifically identified as Coffea canephora.
- Chicot – In North America there is a type of plant with large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers that turn into brown pods with seeds that are used as a coffee substitute.
- Arabica – Coffea arabica is a species of flowering plant, and is believed to be the first species of coffee to have been cultivated, and is currently the most popular type of coffee bean.
What Are Some Words to Describe Coffee?
Here is a list of the top words related to coffee description:
- Rich – Described as ’full’ in flavor and body, with a full ‘mouthfeel’.
- Frothy – When the milk or brew is mixed to become fluffy, whipped or frothy.
- Bitter – Bitter coffee is coffee that has been over-extracted, becoming too potent. The beans get over-brewed and start to release extra bitterness that makes the coffee hard to drink for even black coffee drinkers.
- Quinic – Quinic acid has a bitter, astringent taste and is caused by brewed coffee left to sit on the heater too long, developing a quinic taste.
For more words related to coffee, check out Reverse Dictionary and Scribbler’s Coffee for more ideas and coffee terms.
Hi, I’m Jen Williams, chief editor and writer for ThirstPerk.com.
I’ve been drinking coffee and tea for most of my life, but it wasn’t until I started working at Thirstperk.com that I became an expert on the subject. I’m a total caffeine addict who has spent hours upon hours reading about and experimenting with the different types of coffees out there in my search to find the perfect cup of joe.
I’ve been a tea lover for as long as I can remember as well. I grew up in a house with a mom who loved to drink herbal tea, and I think that’s where my love for tea first began. These days, I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting teas to try, and I love experimenting with different brewing methods and flavoring combinations.