4-letter words containing a, m
- mota — Alternative form of mootah.
- moxa — a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- moya — Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions.
- mpaa — Motion Picture Association of America
- mpla — Movimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola: a political party that has ruled Mozambique since the country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
- mrca — multirole combat aircraft
- mrda — Mandy Rice-Davis Applies
- mria — Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- mrna — messenger RNA
- mrsa — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , a bacterium that is highly resistant to methicillin, penicillin, and certain other antibiotics, and may cause infections of the skin, blood, lungs, etc.: MRSA infections in hospitals and healthcare facilities.
- msau — Media Access Unit
- muka — Prepared fibre of harakeke, used in traditional Maori weaving.
- mura — a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- muta — Alternative form of mootah.
- mwah — Making the sound of a kiss; the sound used to indicate sending a kiss through the air; Frequently used in email, chat and text messages to indicate sending a kiss to someone.
- myal — of or relating to muscle tissue
- myna — any of several Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae, especially those of the genera Acridotheres and Gracula, certain species of which have the ability to mimic speech and are kept as pets.
- myra — an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Lycia.
- naam — (obsolete, legal) The act or process of taking property for the purpose of compensation.
- nama — a member of a Khoikhoi people of Namaqualand, in SW Africa.
- name — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- namu — a black New Zealand sandfly, Austrosimulium australense
- neam — (dialectal) Alternative form of eam.
- nema — a filament
- niam — Natural Language Information Analysis Method (or Nijssen IAM).
- nmpa — National Master Processing Agreement
- noma — a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nrma — National Roads and Motorists Association
- numa — Non-Uniform Memory Access
- nzma — New Zealand Medical Association
- ocam — Organisation commune africaine et malgache: an association of the 14 principal Francophone states of Africa, established in 1965 to further political cooperation and economic and social development
- odma — Open Document Management API
- ogam — an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries.
- ogma — a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.
- oman — Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- omar — a male given name.
- ouma — grandmother, esp in titular use with surname
- palm — any of numerous plants of the family Palmae, most species being tall, unbranched trees surmounted by a crown of large pinnate or palmately cleft leaves. Compare palm family.
- parm — /parm/ Further-compressed form of param. This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym arg is favoured among hackers. Compare var.
- pima — a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- pram — a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger vessels.
- puma — cougar.
- qsam — Physical Sequential
- radm — Rear Admiral
- rama — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
- ramc — Royal Army Medical Corps
- rami — plural of ramus.
- ramp — a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of eastern North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers; eaten raw or used as a flavoring in cooked foods.
- ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- rima — a female given name.