4-letter words containing m
- coma — Someone who is in a coma is in a state of deep unconsciousness.
- comb — A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
- come — When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.
- comm — Communication.
- como — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy at the SW end of Lake Como: tourist centre. Pop: 78 680 (2001)
- comp — Comp is short for compensation.
- comr — Commissioner
- coms — Plural form of com.
- coom — waste material, such as dust from coal, grease from axles, etc
- corm — an organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the crocus, consisting of a globular stem base swollen with food and surrounded by papery scale leaves
- cp/m — an operating system widely used on microcomputers to enable a wide range of software from many suppliers to be run on them
- cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- crim — criminal
- crum — Obsolete form of crumb.
- csmp — Continuous System Modeling Program
- culm — coal-mine waste
- cume — Marketing. cumulative/accumulated audience: the number of people reached by an advertising or broadcasting medium over a specified period of time: The station has a weekly cume of 5.5 million. the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc.: the cume for the Star Wars franchise.
- cwms — cirque (def 1).
- cyma — either of two mouldings having a double curve, part concave and part convex. Cyma recta has the convex part nearer the wall and cyma reversa has the concave part nearer the wall
- cyme — an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems
- dama — The game of Turkish draughts.
- dame — Dame is a title given to a woman as a special honour because of important service or work that she has done.
- damn — Damn, damn it, and dammit are used by some people to express anger or impatience.
- damp — Something that is damp is slightly wet.
- dams — Plural form of dam.
- dbms — database management system
- dcmg — Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- dcms — Department for Culture, Media, and Sport
- dcom — Distributed Component Object Model
- deem — If something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing.
- dem. — Democrat(ic)
- deme — (in preclassical Greece) the territory inhabited by a tribe
- demi — Alternative spelling of demy.
- demo — A demo is a demonstration by a group of people to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demy — a size of printing paper, 171⁄2 by 221⁄2 inches (444.5 × 571.5 mm)
- derm — a navigational device for making a nearby object conspicuous on a radarscope.
- diam — Alternative form of diam.
- diem — a daily allowance, usually for living expenses while traveling in connection with one's work or being employed at a distance from one's home: a per diem for lawmakers while the legislature is in session.
- dime — a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- dimm — Dual In-line Memory Module
- dimp — (UK, colloquial) (primarily Manchester) A small or short cigarette; by extension, the butt end of a cigarette, before it has been completely smoked; a half-smoked cigarette.
- dims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dim.
- dmac — duobinary multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system using duobinary techniques for the digital sound and data components of colour television using satellite broadcasting
- dmad — Diagnostic Machine Aid-Digital. A system for functional testing of digital devices.
- dmin — Doctor of Ministry
- dmso — dimethylsulphoxide
- dmtf — Desktop Management Task Force
- dmus — Doctor of Music
- dome — Architecture. a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions. a domical roof or ceiling. a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
- domf — Distributed Object Management Facility. An OMG-compliant object management system; part of DOE. Produced by SunSoft.