| humble | (adjective) marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful | - |
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| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: low, lowly, modest, small |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, lowly |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: lowly, menial |
| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
| (verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
| humblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: bumblebee |
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| humbled | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humiliated, low |
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| humbleness | (noun) a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride | Synonyms: humility |
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| (noun) a humble feeling | Synonyms: humility |
| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: lowliness, obscureness, unimportance |
| humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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| humbly | (adverb) in a humble manner | Synonyms: meekly |
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| (adverb) in a miserly manner | Synonyms: meanly |
| humbug | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| (noun) communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive | Synonyms: snake oil |
| (verb) trick or deceive | - |
| rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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| rhumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rumba |
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| (noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rumba |
| (noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rumba |
| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, hitchhike |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle |
| thumbed | (adjective) (of pages) worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning | - |
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| thumbhole | (noun) a finger hole made to fit the thumb (as in a bowling ball) | - |
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| (noun) the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb | - |
| thumbnail | (noun) the nail of the thumb | - |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| thumbstall | (noun) protective covering for an injured thumb | - |
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| thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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| (verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |