3-letter words containing m, a
- mac — a male given name.
- mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- mae — a female given name, form of Mary.
- maf — Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
- mag — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- mah — (slang) Alternative form of my.
- maj — Maj is a written abbreviation for major when it is used as a title.
- mak — (Wearside) to make.
- mal — Micro Assembly Language
- mam — British Informal. mother.
- man — Unix manual page
- mao — The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa.
- map — Walter, c1140–1209? Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist.
- mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- mas — mother1 .
- mat — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- mau — Media Access Unit
- maw — mother1 .
- max — Maxwell ("Max") 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.
- may — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- mba — Léon [le-awn] /lɛˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1902–67, African statesman: president of Gabon 1961–67.
- mca — Micro Channel Architecture
- mda — Monochrome Display Adapter
- mea — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- mha — Member of the House of Assembly
- mia — missing in action.
- mla — In Australia and some other countries, an MLA is a person who has been elected as a member of parliament. MLA is an abbreviation for 'member of the legislative assembly'.
- mma — A fast Mathematica-like system, in Allegro CL by R. Fateman, 1991.
- mna — Alternative form of mina (weight unit).
- moa — any of several flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae, of New Zealand, related to the kiwis but resembling the ostrich: extinct since about the end of the 18th century.
- mra — magnetic resonance
- msa — Master of Science in Agriculture
- mta — 1. (messaging) Message Transfer Agent. 2. (messaging) Message Transfer Architecture. (AT&T). 3. Multiple Terminal Access. 4. Maintenance Task Analysis.
- mua — mail user agent
- mva — An MVA happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
- mya — Million years ago.
- nam — a former name of Chao Phraya.
- oma — a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma.
- pam — Pluggable Authentication Module
- qam — 1. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. 2. Quality Assurance Management.
- ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
- rma — Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst)
- sam — System Account Manager
- tam — tam-o'-shanter.
- uam — underwater-to-air missile
- wam — Intermediate language for compiled Prolog, used by the Warren Abstract Machine. "An Abstract Prolog Instruction Set", D.H.D. Warren, TR 309, SRI 1983.
- xma — Xtreme Martial Arts
- yam — the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions.
- zam — Shortened form of kazaam.