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Thirty five words carry H second and U third, and a lot of them rhyme with each other.
CHUMP, THUMP and WHUMP share one ending, CHUNK another, and CHUCK and SHUCK a third. These short blunt shapes account for much of the group and they all sound alike.
CHUCK, THUMB, CHUNK, CHUTE and CHURN are the most useful. THUGS, SHUTS and THUMP come up often enough to be worth remembering.
UHURU is Swahili for freedom, and together with AHULL it is one of two entries here opening with a vowel. THUJA and THUYA are two spellings of the same conifer, and DHUTI is a variant of dhoti.
RHUMB, a line of constant compass bearing, and CHUFA, a sedge grown for its edible tubers, round out the specialist end of the group.
THUMB tests the B and M which CHUCK does not, and CHUCK repeats the C. THUMB is usually the better probe.
Of a ship, lying with sails furled and the helm lashed to leeward in a storm. It is nautical vocabulary and rare elsewhere.
They are two spellings of the same cedar genus. Both are valid, which makes them a nuisance once you have the first four letters.
Thirteen of the thirty five open with it. The CHU shape supports a lot of short blunt words and English has kept most of them.