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4-letter words containing m

  • doms — Plural form of dom.
  • domy — having a dome; dome-like
  • doom — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
  • dorm — dormitory.
  • doum — an African palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) bearing an edible fruit that has a taste and consistency somewhat like gingerbread; gingerbread palm
  • dpmi — DOS Protected Mode Interface
  • dpms — (hardware)   Display Power Management Signaling.
  • dram — dynamic random-access memory
  • drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • dsdm — Dynamic Systems Development Method
  • dtmf — Dual Tone Multi Frequency
  • duma — (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
  • dumb — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
  • dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
  • dwam — a stupor or daydream (esp in the phrase in a dwam)
  • dwdm — wavelength division multiplexing
  • dwem — Dead White European Male
  • dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
  • eams — Plural form of eam.
  • ecma — 1. European Computer Manufacturers Association, now {ECMA International}. 2. A subset of ALGOL. [Sammet 1969, p.180].
  • ecmo — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a method of life support used to oxygenate the blood in newborn babies with lung failure, using a machine incorporating membranes that are impermeable to blood but permeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide
  • edam — a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
  • edml — Edinburgh SML
  • edom — Esau, the brother of Jacob.
  • elam — an ancient kingdom east of the River Tigris: established before 4000 bc; probably inhabited by a non-Semitic people
  • elem — element(s)
  • elms — Plural form of elm.
  • elmy — (rare, poetic) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
  • em-1 — (language)   A stack-oriented intermediate language from Vrije University Amsterdam, used by the Amsterdam Compiler Kit. E-mail: Andrew Tanenbaum <[email protected]>.
  • emas — Edinburgh Multi Access System
  • emea — Europe, Middle East, and Africa
  • emeu — Obsolete form of emu.
  • emic — Relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme.
  • emil — a masculine name: fem. Emily
  • emin — Tracey. born 1963, British artist, noted for provocative multimedia works such as Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995) and My Bed (1999)
  • emir — A title of various Muslim (mainly Arab) rulers.
  • emit — Produce and discharge (something, esp. gas or radiation).
  • emma — (British, dated, WWI, signalese) M in RAF phonetic alphabet.
  • emmy — (in the US) one of the gold-plated statuettes awarded annually for outstanding television performances and productions
  • emos — Plural form of emo.
  • empt — to empty
  • emus — Plural form of emu.
  • emyd — a turtle from the family Emydidae
  • emys — any freshwater turtle of the Emys genus
  • erme — (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to feel sad.
  • esim — A language for simulation of VLSI at the switch level. The primitives are nodes and transistors.
  • esml — Extended Systems Modelling Language
  • etym — An etymon.
  • exam — A medical test of a specified kind.
  • eyam — a village in N central England, in Derbyshire. When plague reached the village in 1665 the inhabitants, led by the Rev. Mompesson, isolated themselves to prevent it spreading further: as a result most of them died, including Mompesson's family
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