4-letter words containing m, a, s
- 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
- qsam — Physical Sequential
- sama — the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- sami — Lapp.
- saml — (security) An XML framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information, developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of OASIS. SAML supports federation, allowing business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
- samo — died a.d. 658, first ruler of the Slavs 623–658.
- samp — coarsely ground corn.
- sawm — fasting, especially during the month of Ramadan; the fourth of the Pillars of Islam.
- scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- seam — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- siam — former name of Thailand (def 1).
- sima — the uppermost member of a full classical order, usually a cyma recta, representing a roof gutter; cymatium.
- slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
- soma — the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- spam — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- sram — static random-access memory
- ssma — (chat) some such meaningless acronym.
- swam — simple past tense of swim.
- tasm — Turbo Assembler. MS-DOS assembler from Borland.
- vsam — Virtual Storage Access Method
- wasm — (humorous) An ideology, doctrine, theory or law that is no longer current or fashionable.
- wmsa — Western Missouri Shooters Alliance
- xmas — Xmas is used in informal written English to represent the word Christmas.
- yams — Plural form of yam.
- ymsa — Yardley Makefield Soccer Association
- zams — zero age main sequence