List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries

Arts and entertainment

 * Manueline, an art style of the early 16th century
 * Neo-Manueline, a revival art style from the mid-19th century
 * Soft Portuguese style, is an architectural model adopted mainly by public buildings
 * Pombaline style, an architectural style of the 18th century
 * Portuguese colonial architecture, a collection of styles of architecture that the Portuguese built across the Portuguese Empire
 * Visigothic art and architecture, architecture and art styles of the Iberian Visigoths in the 5th century
 * Azulejo, a form of painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework
 * Portuguese pavement, a traditional-style pavement used in pedestrian areas
 * Adufe, a square tambourine
 * Ukulele, string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii
 * Gaita transmontana, a type of Portuguese bagpipe
 * Galician gaita, a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe.
 * Portuguese guitar, a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings
 * Rabeca chuleira, a three-string fiddle
 * Cavaquinho, a small string instrument that originated the Ukulele
 * Machete, a small string instrument from Madeira
 * Viola braguesa, a ten-string instrument
 * Viola campaniça, a ten steel string guitar
 * Viola amarantina, a ten string guitar with two heart-shaped frontal openings
 * Viola toeira, a twelve string guitar

Food and cooking

 * Presunto ibérico, a type of cured ham
 * Enchidos, a variety of cured, dry sausages
 * Alheira, a type of sausage made with meats other than pork (usually veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and bread
 * São Jorge cheese, a type of semi-hard to hard cheese
 * Castelo Branco cheese, type of goat cheese
 * Serra da Estrela cheese, a type of ewes cheese
 * Port wine, a type of fortified wine
 * Moscatel, a type of fortified wine
 * Madeira wine, a type of fortified wine
 * Jeropiga, a type of fortified white wine
 * Vinho Verde, a type of white wine fermented using young grapes
 * Pastel de nata, an egg tart pastry
 * Tempura, a Japanese dish introduced to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries
 * Marmalade, a type of fruit preserve
 * Churros, a type of fried-dough pastry brought by the Portuguese from China

Nautical science

 * Carrack, a three- or four-masted sailing ship
 * Galleon, a large sailing warship
 * Caravel, a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship
 * Square-rigged caravel, a sailing ship
 * Man-of-war, a powerful warship armed with cannons and propelled by sails
 * Gun port, an opening on the side of a ship's hull that allows artillery pieces to fire outside
 * Nonius, a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe
 * Mariner's astrolabe, an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship
 * Portuguese nautical cartography, a compendium of navigational and geographic maps
 * Cantino planisphere, the earliest extant nautical chart where places are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes
 * School of Sagres, first court of navigation founded in Sagres
 * Chip log, a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water
 * Volta do mar, a navigation technique that exploits trade winds to move across the sea

Weaponry

 * Carracks black sword, a type of sword designed to be used by soldiers and sailors in ships and caravels
 * Dilagrama m/65, a grenade adapter that fits the barrel of the G3
 * FBP submachine gun, a 9 mm submachine gun
 * Mauser–Vergueiro, a bolt-action rifle
 * Lusa submachine gun, a compact 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun
 * Bravia Chaimite, an armored vehicle with all wheel drive axles
 * M1940 helmet, a combat helmet

Science and technology

 * Familial amyloidotic neuropathy, a group of autosomal dominant diseases of the nervous system first described by Corino Andrade
 * Circulatory system, Amato Lusitano discovered the circulation of the blood and the function of valves
 * Cerebral angiography, developed by António Egas Moniz
 * Lobotomy, pioneered by António Egas Moniz
 * Tropical medicine, pioneered by Garcia de Orta
 * Pyreliophorus, solar oven
 * Prepaid Mobile Phone, a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use
 * Multibanco, an interbank network with a wide range of services that can be utilised through its machines
 * All-on-4, a dental technique for total rehabilitation of the edentulous patient
 * Via Verde, an electronic toll collection system
 * Coloradd, a sign code for aiding colour blind people to recognise colours
 * Passarola, a type of lighter-than-air airship, the predecessor of air balloon
 * Artificial horizon sextant, an airship device to measure the distance between the horizon line and celestial bodies
 * Microphone Windshield
 * Electric wheelchair elevator
 * Electronic cane for the blind
 * Electrovisor, a tactile system for the blind to perceive images
 * BASIL, vibratory system for deaf people to perceive sounds
 * COPASI, software application for creating and solving mathematical models of biological processes
 * Eslicarbazepine acetate, anticonvulsant medication
 * Deaf-mute language, pioneered by Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
 * ENER 1000, an early personal computer

Literature

 * Heteronym, a literary concept in which one or several imaginary character(s) are created by a writer to write in different styles
 * Ultra-Romanticism, a literary movement derived from the Romanticism that took place in the second half of the 19th century