4-letter words containing ma
- maui — an island in central Hawaii. 728 sq. mi. (1886 sq. km).
- maul — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- maun — must
- mawk — (obsolete except in dialects) a maggot.
- mawn — a measure of capacity, varying between regions and dependent upon the commodity measured
- maws — mother1 .
- max. — Max. is an abbreviation for maximum, and is often used after numbers or amounts.
- maxi — maxiskirt.
- maya — the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- mayo — Charles Horace, 1865–1939, and his brother William James, 1861–1939, U.S. surgeons.
- mayr — Ernst, 1904–2005, U.S. zoologist and evolutionary theorist, born in Germany.
- mays — the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
- maze — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- mazu — Matsu.
- mazy — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- mdma — 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- 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.
- moma — Museum of Modern Art, in New York City
- nama — a member of a Khoikhoi people of Namaqualand, in SW Africa.
- nema — a filament
- noma — a gangrenous ulceration of the mouth or genitalia, occurring mainly in debilitated children.
- nrma — National Roads and Motorists Association
- numa — Non-Uniform Memory Access
- nzma — New Zealand Medical Association
- odma — Open Document Management API
- ogma — a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.
- oman — Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- omar — a male given name.
- ouma — grandmother, esp in titular use with surname
- pima — a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- puma — cougar.
- rama — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
- rima — a female given name.
- rmag — Recursive Macro Actuated Generator
- roma — Rome.
- sama — the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- sima — the uppermost member of a full classical order, usually a cyma recta, representing a roof gutter; cymatium.
- soma — the body of an organism as contrasted with its germ cells.
- ssma — (chat) some such meaningless acronym.
- tema — a port in SE Ghana on the Atlantic: oil-refining. Pop: 160 000 (2005 est)
- udma — ATA-4
- umma — the Islamic community.
- wqma — Washington Quarter Midget Association
- wuma — World United Martial Arts
- xmas — Xmas is used in informal written English to represent the word Christmas.
- yama — the Vedic god presiding over the underworld.
- yima — a legendary king who, having reigned under the protection of Ahura Mazda in perfect happiness, sinned and lost for the world the immortality it had enjoyed.
- ymaa — Yangs Martial Arts Association
- yuma — a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
- zama — an ancient town in N Africa, SW of Carthage: the Romans defeated Hannibal near here in the final battle of the second Punic War, 202 b.c.