4-letter words that end in m
- mp/m — a multiuser operating system that resembles a CP/M
- mrbm — medium-range ballistic missile
- mrom — Mask Read-Only Memory
- musm — Master of Music
- naam — (obsolete, legal) The act or process of taking property for the purpose of compensation.
- neam — (dialectal) Alternative form of eam.
- neem — A tropical Old World tree that yields mahoganylike timber, oil, medicinal products, and insecticide.
- niam — Natural Language Information Analysis Method (or Nijssen IAM).
- norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
- nrem — non-REM; non-rapid eye movement.
- nzom — New Zealand Order of Merit
- ocam — Organisation commune africaine et malgache: an association of the 14 principal Francophone states of Africa, established in 1965 to further political cooperation and economic and social development
- ogam — an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries.
- orem — a city in N Utah.
- ovum — Cell Biology. the female reproductive cell or gamete of animals, which is capable of developing, usually only after fertilization, into a new individual. the female reproductive cell or gamete of plants.
- palm — any of numerous plants of the family Palmae, most species being tall, unbranched trees surmounted by a crown of large pinnate or palmately cleft leaves. Compare palm family.
- parm — /parm/ Further-compressed form of param. This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym arg is favoured among hackers. Compare var.
- pbem — play by electronic mail
- perm — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kama River.
- phlm — Philemon
- pium — a type of small, black, stinging fly from S America
- plim — full or plump
- plum — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- poem — a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- pram — a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger vessels.
- prem — a premature infant
- prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- prom — Programmable Read-Only Memory
- qsam — Physical Sequential
- quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
- quim — vagina; vulva.
- radm — Rear Admiral
- ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- riem — a strip of hide which has been treated to preserve it before making it into leather
- roam — to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
- röhm — Ernst (ernst). 1887–1934, German soldier, who organized (1921–34) Hitler's storm troops: murdered on Hitler's orders
- room — channel
- rtbm — (Unix) Read The Bloody Manual.
- rtfm — (jargon) /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An (unhelpful) guru's traditional response when someone asks a question in a newsgroup or mailing list which he could have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM. The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the FM didn't help and I can't RTFS." Other derived forms include RTFAQ, RTFB, RTM, RYFM and, more recently, STFW. Compare: UTSL.
- ryfm — (abuse) 1. "Read Your Fucking Manual". Uncommon variant of RTFM. 2. "Read Your Fucking Mail". A gentle reminder to someone to check their corresponence and, who knows, maybe even respond.
- sawm — fasting, especially during the month of Ramadan; the fourth of the Pillars of Islam.
- scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- scum — a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
- seam — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- seem — to appear to be, feel, do, etc.: She seems better this morning.
- sejm — the unicameral parliament of Poland.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- shem — the eldest of the three sons of Noah. Gen. 10:21.
- shim — a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc., for driving into crevices, as between machine parts to compensate for wear, or beneath bedplates, large stones, etc., to level them.
- siam — former name of Thailand (def 1).