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4-letter words containing p

  • lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • lupe — a female given name.
  • mapi — Messaging Application Programming Interface
  • maps — Plural form of map.
  • mbps — megabits per second
  • mcpd — Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
  • mcps — Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
  • meep — A short, high-pitched sound, especially as emitted by an animal or a vehicle’s horn.
  • meph — (informal) mephedrone.
  • mgcp — Media Gateway Control Protocol
  • mips — 1.   (unit, benchmark)   Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3.   (processor)   Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4.   (company)   MIPS Technologies, Inc.
  • 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.
  • mmpi — Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
  • mops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mop.
  • mopy — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
  • moup — to nibble with a fast movement of the lips
  • mp-1 — Assembly language for the MasPar computer.
  • mp/m — a multiuser operating system that resembles a CP/M
  • mpaa — Motion Picture Association of America
  • mpeg — Moving Picture Experts Group
  • mpla — Movimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola: a political party that has ruled Mozambique since the country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
  • mpls — Multiprotocol Label Switching
  • mppe — Microsoft Point to Point Encryption
  • mppl — (language)   An early possible name for PL/I.
  • mpsx — Mathematical Programming System Extended. Solution strategy for mathematical programming. "Mathematical Programming System Extended (MPSX) Control Language User's Manual", SH20-0932, IBM. Sammet 1978.
  • mrcp — Member of the Royal College of Physicians
  • msrp — Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
  • mufp — A functional language for hardware design, a predecessor of Ruby.
  • mump — to cheat.
  • nadp — nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; a coenzyme with functions similar to those of NAD
  • napa — a very soft glove leather made from the skin of a sheep, kid, or goat.
  • nape — the back of the neck (usually used in the phrase nape of the neck).
  • napo — a South American river flowing from central Ecuador through NE Peru to the Amazon River. about 700 miles (1125 km) long.
  • naps — Plural form of nap.
  • nbpa — National Basketball Players Association
  • neap — designating tides midway between spring tides that attain the least height.
  • neep — a turnip.
  • neps — Plural form of nep.
  • newp — NEW Programming language
  • nipa — a palm, Nypa fruticans, of India, the Philippines, etc., whose foliage is used for thatching, basketry, etc.
  • nips — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
  • nipt — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of nip.
  • nlsp — NetWare Link State Protocol
  • nmpa — National Master Processing Agreement
  • nntp — (messaging)   Network News Transfer Protocol.
  • noop — the tip or point of the elbow
  • nope — no1 (def 1).
  • nopo — no person operation; driverless trains suggested as a means of increasing the efficiency of some railway systems
  • nops — Plural form of nop.
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