5 letter words starting with thu

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got a few plausible five letter words starting with thu.

  • THUDS
  • THUGS
  • THUJA
  • THUMB
  • THUMP
  • THUNK
  • THURL
  • THUYA

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of thumb

thumb (noun)

  1. The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
  2. The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
  3. A thumbnail picture.

thumb (verb)

  1. To touch or cover with the thumb.
  2. (with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
  3. (travel) To hitchhike
  4. To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
  5. To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
  6. To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

Definition of thump

thump (noun)

  1. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
  2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
  3. Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

thump (verb)

  1. To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
  2. To cause to make a thumping sound.
  3. To thud or pound.
  4. To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

Definition of thunk

thunk (verb)

  1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.

thunk (interjection)

  1. Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.

thunk (noun)

  1. (functional programming) A delayed computation.
  2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  3. A mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system.

thunk (verb)

  1. (functional programming) To delay (a computation).
  2. To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.


Definition of thuya

thuya (noun)

  1. Any member of the genus Thuya.