4-letter words containing p, a
- gawp — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gmap — GCOS Macro Assembler Program
- halp — (nonstandard, humorous) alternative spelling of help.
- hapa — (especially in Hawaii and California) a person of mixed-race heritage who identifies racially and culturally as both white and of Asian descent.
- hapi — Apis.
- haps — Apis.
- hapu — A subtribe of an iwi; the basic political unit within Māori society.
- harp — a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
- hasp — Houston Automatic Spooling Program
- heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
- hepa — noting or using an air filter composed of a mat of dense fibers arranged in folds, designed according to federal standards to trap at least 99.97% of airborne particles measuring 0.3 microns in diameter: HEPA vacuums and air purifiers.
- hupa — an Athabaskan Indian language of NW California.
- imap — Internet Message Access Protocol
- ipad — (computer) A tablet computer announced by Apple Computer, Inc. on 2010-01-27 to be released in March 2010. The iPad runs iPhone OS 3.2, providing multi-touch interaction and multimedia processing. Like Apple's iPhone and iPod, it uses a virtual keyboard for text input and runs most iPhone apps. It adds the iBooks application for reading text in ePub format. It has a 1GHz Apple A4 SoC processor, up to 64GB of flash memory, a 250mm LED-backlit colour LCD display (resolution 1024x768 pixels) and a 25 Wh lithium-polymer battery. Internet access will be Wi-Fi in early models with HSDPA 3G available soon after using a micro-SIM. It weighs 730g. Features it lacks include a camera, the ability to multitask and an open developement environment. The iPad is the culmination of a series of attempts by Apple to produce a tablet device, starting with the Newton MessagePad 100 in 1993 and including collaboration with Acorn Computers in developing the ARM6 processor.
- jaap — a simpleton or country bumpkin
- jamp — (Scotland) Simple past tense and past participle of jump.
- jape — to jest; joke; gibe.
- japh — (programming) A Perl program which prints "Just another Perl hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions, in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest. The obfuscation can result from the code being total gibberish, e.g.: $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//; or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque code: $_='987;s/^(\d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval or from looking like it does something simple and completely unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker": $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print; Examples.
- japn — of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan, its people, or their language.
- jarp — To knock one pace-egg against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other’s egg and leaving one's own intact.
- jaup — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
- jawp — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
- jtpa — Job Training Partnership Act: a US federal law in place between 1982 and 1998 that was enacted to help young people and unskilled adults to gain the necessary skills to acquire employment
- kaph — the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- kapo — a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.
- kapu — (in Hawaiian traditional culture and religion) a set of rules and prohibitions for everyday life.
- kipa — yarmulke.
- klap — (South Africa, slang, transitive) To strike; to smack.
- knap — a crest or summit of a small hill.
- koap — (in Papua New Guinea) sexual intercourse
- lamp — any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
- lap4 — Early assembly language for Linc-8 machine.
- lapb — Link Access Protocol Balanced
- lapd — 1. Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. Los Angeles Police Department.
- lapm — Link Access Protocol for Modems
- lapp — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- laps — the act of lapping liquid.
- larp — a type of role-playing game in which each participant assumes a particular character and acts out various scenarios at events which last for a predetermined time
- ldap — Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- leap — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lipa — a monetary unit of Croatia.
- lpac — 1. (audio, compression) Lossless Predictive Audio Compression. 2. London Parallel Applications Centre.
- lpga — Ladies Professional Golf Association
- mapi — Messaging Application Programming Interface
- maps — Plural form of map.
- mmap — The Unix system call which establishes a mapping between a range of addresses in a user process's address space and a portion of some "memory object" (typically a file, one of the special "devices" /dev/mem or /dev/kmem or some memory-mapped peripheral). This allows the process to access a file at random byte offsets without using the seek system call or to access physical addresses or kernel's virtual address space. It can also be used as an alternative to writing a device driver since it is usually simpler to code and faster to use.
- 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
- nadp — nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; a coenzyme with functions similar to those of NAD
- napa — a very soft glove leather made from the skin of a sheep, kid, or goat.