Anagrams of WHUM_

• A thumping sound.

• A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.

• To strike something with a whump.

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

• (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.

• (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.

• a sudden desire

• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

• strike hard

• To beat, to strike.

• To defeat thoroughly.

• (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent

• a great amount or extent

• to a great degree or extent

• incredibly

• (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely

• frequently or in great quantities

• a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

• bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish

• a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

• a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

• To make a thoughtful humming noise.

• Indicating thinking or pondering.

• A demand for an answer to a question.