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— English words —

• hum n. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
• hum n. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
• hum n. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
• hum n. (UK, slang) Unpleasant odour.
• hum n. (Dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
• hum n. (Obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
• hum n. (With article) A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent…
• hum v. (Intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one’s lips closed.
• hum v. (Transitive) To express by humming.
• hum v. (Intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
• hum v. (Intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive.
• hum v. (Intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously.
• hum v. (Britain, slang) To reek, smell bad.
• hum v. (Transitive, UK, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
• hum interj. Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
• hum interj. Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
• Hum prop.n. A town in the central part of Istria, northwest Croatia, 7 km from Roč.
• HUM n. (Bridge) Initialism of highly unusual method: any of a class of contract bridge bidding systems that…

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Akan
  • hum An identity for a "nom-int-txt" code: a wilde wish.
• Albanian
  • hum n. Rough sea.
• Bahnar
  • hum v. To bathe.
• Icelandic
  • húm n. Twilight, dusk.
• Jakaltek
  • hum n. Paper.
• Middle english
  • hum pron. Alternative form of hem (“them”).
• Ngamo
  • hum n. Water.
• Phalura
  • hum part. Also, as well as.
• Serbo-croatian
  • hum n. Hillock.
  • hum n. Barrow, tumulus (mound of earth raised over a grave).
  • hum n. (Obsolete) arrogance.
• Vietnamese
  • hùm n. (Central Vietnam or literary) tiger (Panthera tigris).
  • hừm interj. Expression of anger or uttered under threat.

— English words, defined in French —

• hum n. Fredon.
• hum v. Ronronner, vrombir (machine).
• hum v. Fredonner, muser (personne).
• hum v. Bourdonner (insecte).
• hum v. (Sens figuré) Être rempli de monde, être bondé.
• hum v. Puer.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• hum s. Ronzio, murmure.

— In Dutch —

• hum n. (Verkorting van) humeur.
• hum w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van hummen.
• hum w. Gebiedende wijs van hummen.
• hum w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van hummen.

— In French —

• hum interj. Interjection qui marque doute, réticence, impatience.

— In Portuguese —

• hum interj. (Com realização com alongamento da vogal nasal) expressa…
• hum interj. (Com realização comumente mediana da vogal nasal) expressa…
• hum interj. (Com realização mediana da vogal nasal) expressa apreciação…
• hum interj. (Com realização breve da vogal nasal e comumente prum…
• hum interj. (Com realização com alongamento da vogal nasal) expressa…

— In Italian —

• hum int. Sospiro che denota perplessità.

146 English words from 31 English definitions

active activity Also Alternative amp anger any approving arrogance article as␣well as␣well␣as bad Barrow bathe beehive bidding blend bridge Britain busily Busy buzz cajole central certain chords class closed code collection consideration continuously contract contract␣bridge created Croatia dated deceive do␣in doubt drink drone dusk earth express Expression flatter for form from grave hem highly Hillock hmm hoax human humbug hummed humming identity impose imposition indicating indistinct Initialism insects int Intransitive involving Istria kind kind␣of like lips literary low make method motion mound naturally noise nom northwest Obsolete odour of␣a often one orally over Paper part persistent phenomena phenomenon produce pronouncing raised real reek reports resembling Rough sea similarly slang smell sound sounding sounds strong strong␣drink Synonym systems that the them thought threat tiger town Transitive tumulus tune Twilight txt uncertainty under Unpleasant unusual upon uttered Vietnam vocal vocal␣chords Water well which widespread wish with without words

14 English words from 18 foreign definitions

breve che com impatience Interjection machine marque monde muser nasal Puer rempli Sens van

2 foreign words from 31 English definitions

tigris wilde

42 foreign words from 18 foreign definitions

alongamento apreciação Bij bondé Bourdonner comumente denota doute Eerste Eerste␣persoon enkelvoud être figuré Fredon Fredonner Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs humeur hummen insecte inversie mediana murmure perplessità personne persoon prum qui realização réticence Ronronner Ronzio Sens␣figuré Sospiro tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon Verkorting vogal vrombir wijs

714 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Hume humf Humm hump Hump hums Hums HUMs human Human Humby humen Humes humet humfs humic humid humin Humms hummy humor humph Humph humps humpy HUMSS humus humyn humane humans Humans humate Humber humble Humble humbly humbow hum␣bow hum-box humbug Humean humect humefy humeri humero- humets humfed humhum Humian humify +664 words

1086 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

bhumi Bhumi bhūmi Bhūmi chump chums Chums khums phums rhumb Shums thumb thump Thums whump Bhumij bhumis bhūmis chuman chumar chummo chummy chumps chumpy chum␣up Dhumal e-thumb exhume Ghuman ghumar inhume mahume phumdi rhumba rhumbs Schumm Schums shumac shumai Shuman Shumen shumla Shumsk thumbs thumby thumka Thumma thumps thumpt thumpy +1036 words

54 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ahum chum Chum Ghum jhum khum phum rhum Rhum Shum Thum ho-hum ho␣hum Nahum Schum ainhum Bochum humhum Jochum Lit.␣Hum. Sokhum Sukhum Yochum zythum antihum Beachum Birbhum bum␣chum Finchum Fulghum Ketchum Malghum Meachum Mitchum new␣chum sorghum Beerbhum Flinchum mains␣hum Spec-chum Van␣der␣Hum agallochum baba␣au␣rhum buchaechum calcanthum Chaiyaphum babas␣au␣rhum chalcanthum orichalchum aurichalchum +4 words

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

muh MUH

5 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

hmu HMU muh MUH uhm

39 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ahum chum Chum Ghum haum Hume humf Humm hump Hump hums Hums HUMs jhum Khmu khum mahu mehu MGUH MGU-H MGU␣H muah much Much Muha Muhl Muhu mush Mush MUSH Muth phum rhum Rhum Shum Thum UDMH UHMW umph

20 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

hm HM h'm hu Hu HU mh MH mh+ mh- mu Mu MU -mu- uh um UM 'um -um um-

80 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

aum AUM bum cum Cum. dum fum gum Gum GUM ham Ham HAM -ham H.A.M. HCM HDM hem Hem 'hem hem- him Him H.I.M. hmm HMM Hom hrm HRM HSM Hua hub huc hud Hud HUD hue Hue hug huh Huh hui Hui Huk hun Hun Huo hup Huq Hur Hus HUs HUS hut Hux Huy Huz hym -ium jum lum Lum mum Mum num num. Num. Qum Q'um rum Rum Rùm sum Sum tum TUM -tum- vum yum Yum

11 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

hm HM h'm hu Hu HU um UM 'um -um um-

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

haum Humm

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