4-letter words containing a, m
- mawn — a measure of capacity, varying between regions and dependent upon the commodity measured
- maws — mother1 .
- max. — Max. is an abbreviation for maximum, and is often used after numbers or amounts.
- maxi — maxiskirt.
- maya — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mayo — Charles Horace, 1865–1939, and his brother William James, 1861–1939, U.S. surgeons.
- mayr — Ernst, 1904–2005, U.S. zoologist and evolutionary theorist, born in Germany.
- mays — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- maze — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- mazu — Matsu.
- mazy — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- mcad — Microsoft Certified Application Developer
- mcat — Medical College Admissions Test
- mcga — Multi-Color Graphics Array
- mcsa — (education) 1. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator. 2. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate.
- mdac — Microsoft Data Access Components
- mdma — 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- mdna — mitochondrial DNA
- mead — George Herbert, 1863–1931, U.S. philosopher and author.
- meak — (obsolete) A hook with a long handle.
- meal — a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- mear — a boundary or boundary marker.
- meas — (knitting) measures.
- meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- meaw — Dated form of meow.
- mega — Extremely.
- mela — a religious fair, especially one held in connection with a festival.
- mesa — a city in SW California.
- meta — (in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- mfat — Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- mhra — Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- miao — Also, Meo. a member of a diverse group of seminomadic farming people of the mountains of southeastern China and adjacent areas of Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
- mica — any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae; isinglass.
- miha — a young fern frond which has not yet opened
- mina — an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- mira — Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- mita — a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- mlab — Modeling LABoratory. An interactive mathematical modelling system.
- mmap — The Unix system call which establishes a mapping between a range of addresses in a user process's address space and a portion of some "memory object" (typically a file, one of the special "devices" /dev/mem or /dev/kmem or some memory-mapped peripheral). This allows the process to access a file at random byte offsets without using the seek system call or to access physical addresses or kernel's virtual address space. It can also be used as an alternative to writing a device driver since it is usually simpler to code and faster to use.
- moab — an ancient kingdom E of the Dead Sea, in what is now Jordan.
- moai — One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
- moan — a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- moar — (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of more.
- moas — Plural form of moa.
- moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- mola — any of several thin, silvery fishes of the family Molidae, of tropical and temperate seas.
- moma — Museum of Modern Art, in New York City
- mona — a female given name.
- mora — the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.