4-letter words containing am
- lama — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
- lamb — Charles ("Elia") 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
- lame — an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver, are woven with silk, wool, rayon, or cotton.
- lamp — any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
- lams — Plural form of lam.
- lamy — John Baptist (Jean Baptiste l'Amy) 1814–88, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, born in France: archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico 1875–88.
- leam — (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.
- loam — a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
- lram — Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music
- lyam — (obsolete) A leash.
- 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.
- naam — (obsolete, legal) The act or process of taking property for the purpose of compensation.
- nama — a member of a Khoikhoi people of Namaqualand, in SW Africa.
- name — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- namu — a black New Zealand sandfly, Austrosimulium australense
- neam — (dialectal) Alternative form of eam.
- niam — Natural Language Information Analysis Method (or Nijssen IAM).
- 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.
- pram — a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger vessels.
- qsam — Physical Sequential
- rama — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
- ramc — Royal Army Medical Corps
- rami — plural of ramus.
- ramp — a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of eastern North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers; eaten raw or used as a flavoring in cooked foods.
- 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)
- roam — to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
- sama — the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- sami — Lapp.
- saml — (security) An XML framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information, developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of OASIS. SAML supports federation, allowing business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
- samo — died a.d. 658, first ruler of the Slavs 623–658.
- samp — coarsely ground corn.
- scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- seam — the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- siam — former name of Thailand (def 1).
- slam — the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
- spam — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- sram — static random-access memory
- swam — simple past tense of swim.
- tame — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- tamm — Igor Evgenievich [ee-guh r yiv-gye-nyi-vyich] /ˈi gər yɪvˈgyɛ nyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1971, Russian physicist: Nobel prize 1958.
- tamo — the light, yellowish-brown wood of a Japanese ash, Fraxinus mandschurica, used for making furniture.
- tamp — to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
- team — a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- tram — silk that has been slightly or loosely twisted, used weftwise in weaving silk fabrics.