4-letter words that end in m
- 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.
- culm — coal-mine waste
- 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.
- 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.
- dimm — Dual In-line Memory Module
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- edam — a mild, hard, yellow cheese, produced in a round shape and coated with red wax.
- 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)
- esim — A language for simulation of VLSI at the switch level. The primitives are nodes and transistors.
- 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
- farm — processor farm
- ferm — (obsolete) Rent for a farm.
- film — a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate.
- firm — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- flam — a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
- flem — of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.
- flim — a five-pound note
- foam — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- fram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
- frcm — Fellow of the Royal College of Music
- frim — (dialectal, archaic, or, obsolete) Flourishing, thriving.
- from — (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement): a train running west from Chicago.
- frum — Yiddish. religious; observant.
- ftam — File Transfer, Access, and Management: an application layer protocol for file transfer and remote manipulation (ISO 8571).
- gaum — to smear or cover with a gummy, sticky substance (often followed by up): My clothes were gaumed up from that axle grease.
- germ — a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- geum — any plant of the genus Geum, comprising the avens.
- gism — Slang: Vulgar. semen.