Anagrams of: THUMBING

• the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

• the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

• a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

• travel by getting free rides from motorists

• look through a book or other written material

• feel or handle with the fingers

• physical strength

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight

• a special situation

• an action

• a special abstraction

• an artifact

• an event

• a vaguely specified concern

• a statement regarded as an object

• an entity that is not named specifically

• any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

• a special objective

• a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

• a separate and self-contained entity

• Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

• the period spent sleeping

• the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

• darkness

• a shortening of nightfall

• the time between sunset and midnight

• conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

• a deaf person who is unable to speak

• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

• expressed without speech

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)