Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
backhauled
backhauled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhaul
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
bivouacked
bivouacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bivouac
blackguard
blackguard
noun
(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
verb
(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
buckboards
buckboards
noun
plural of buckboard
bulkheaded
bulkheaded
adj
Furnished with a bulkhead or bulkheads.
burckhardt
chaukidari
chutzpadik
chutzpadik
adj
Showing chutzpah; not showing due respect; impudent; impertinent; brazen.
cuckoomaid
diaskeuast
diaskeuast
noun
One who reviews or revises a text.
doughmaker
duckboards
duckboards
noun
plural of duckboard
grubstaked
grubstaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grubstake
houndshark
houndshark
noun
Alternative spelling of hound shark
humankinds
humankinds
noun
plural of humankind
humpbacked
humpbacked
adj
Being a humpback bridge.
Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of humpback
junkdealer
kedushshah
keelhauled
keelhauled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul
kenduskeag
khidmutgar
khidmutgar
noun
Alternative form of khitmatgar
krugerrand
krugerrand
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Krugerrand
leukoderma
leukoderma
noun
An acquired cutaneous condition with localized loss of pigmentation of the skin.
lunkheaded
lunkheaded
adj
obtuse; foolish; idiotic.
medusalike
medusalike
Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of the mythical Medusa.
neudeckian
outflanked
outflanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outflank
outthanked
outthanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outthank
parbuckled
parbuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parbuckle
quakerbird
quakerbird
noun
the sooty albatross
quicksands
quicksands
noun
plural of quicksand
quicksandy
quicksandy
adj
quicksandlike
radiumlike
radiumlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of radium.
sackdoudle
skiapodous
soundtrack
soundtrack
noun
A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.
A recording of such music for sale.
Background sounds that are part of a bigger event.
The sound (especially the music) component of a movie, video game, etc.
verb
To provide, or to act as the sound or music component of a film
studebaker
sundaylike
sundaylike
Adjective
Resembling a Sunday or some aspect of one, especially the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.
trackhound
truckloads
truckloads
noun
plural of truckload
unattacked
unattacked
adj
Not having been attacked.
unawakened
unawakened
adj
Not awakened; sleeping; unconscious; unaware.
unbackward
unbackward
adj
Not backward.
uncankered
uncankered
adj
Not cankered.
uncasketed
uncasketed
adj
Not enclosed in a casket.
undamasked
undamasked
adj
Not damasked.
undarkened
undarkened
adj
Not darkened.
underbaked
underbaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underbake
undercloak
undercloak
noun
(construction) A fixed underlayer of tile or fibre cement on a roof, to support the mortar above.
verb
(construction, transitive) To apply such an underlayer to.
undermaker
undertaken
undertaken
verb
past participle of undertake
undertaker
undertaker
noun
(historical) A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
(rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
undertakes
undertakes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of undertake
unembanked
unembanked
adj
Not embanked.
unimbanked
unimbanked
adj
Archaic form of unembanked.
unjacketed
unjacketed
adj
Not jacketed
unkidnaped
unlackeyed
unlackeyed
adj
Without a lackey or servant.
unladylike
unladylike
adj
Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
unmarketed
unmarketed
adj
Not marketed.
unnapkined
unnapkined
adj
Not covered with a napkin.
unpackaged
unpackaged
adj
Not packaged.
unremarked
unremarked
adj
(often with "upon") Not the subject of any remark
Not remarked or noticed; unnoticed.
unshackled
unshackled
adj
Not shackled.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unshackle