4-letter words starting with m
- mals — Master of Library Science.
- malt — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- mama — Informal. mother1 .
- mame — a female given name.
- mamo — Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
- mams — Plural form of mam.
- mana — an ancient kingdom in Iran, in Kurdistan.
- mand — (psychology) A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.
- mane — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- mang — Alternative form of man.
- mani — Manes.
- mank — (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.
- mann — Heinrich [hahyn-rik;; German hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1871–1950, German novelist and dramatist, in the U.S. after 1940 (brother of Thomas Mann).
- mano — the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.
- mans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of man.
- manu — the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- manx — of or relating to the Isle of Man, its inhabitants, or their language.
- many — constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.
- maoi — monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- mapi — Messaging Application Programming Interface
- maps — Plural form of map.
- mara — Hindu Mythology. the god of death, sometimes seen as one aspect of a god whose other aspect is Kama, or erotic desire.
- marc — a standardized system developed by the Library of Congress for producing and transmitting machine-readable bibliographic records.
- mard — (Northern England) To cosset (a child).
- mare — Walter (John) 1873–1956, English poet, novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
- marg — margin
- mari — a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- marl — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- marm — (archaic) madam; a polite term of address for a lady.
- mars — (used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- mart — a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.
- maru — A suffix of Japanese ship names.
- marv — marvelous; wonderful.
- marx — Karl (Heinrich) [kahrl hahyn-rik;; German kahrl hahyn-rikh] /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
- mary — (Mary Stuart) 1542–87, queen of Scotland 1542–67; beheaded for plotting to assassinate her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
- masa — flour or dough made of dried, ground corn, used especially for tortillas.
- mase — To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
- mash — to flirt with; court the affections of.
- mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
- masm — Microsoft Assembler for MS-DOS.
- mass — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
- mast — the fruit of the oak and beech or other forest trees, used as food for hogs and other animals.
- masu — A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
- mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
- math — an order of Hindu monks.
- mats — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
- matt — to finish with a matte surface.
- maty — (archaic) A native house servant in India.
- maua — a city in SE Brazil, SE of São Paulo.