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
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
backgrounds
backgrounds
noun
plural of background
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
bareknuckled
barkbound
barkbound
adj
Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
baronduki
bauckiebird
blackfigured
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.
blackguarded
blackguarded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackguard
blackguardism
blackguardism
noun
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
blackguardly
blackguardly
adj
Characteristic of a blackguard.
blackguardry
blackguards
blackguards
noun
plural of blackguard
blockaderunning
buckboard
buckboard
noun
A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
buckboards
buckboards
noun
plural of buckboard
buckramed
buckramed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckram
budbreak
budbreak
noun
(botany) The emergence of a bud, especially on a vine
bulwarked
bulwarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulwark
burckhardt
burkhard
burkhardt
burkundauze
burkundauze
noun
Alternative form of burkundaz
burkundaz
burkundaz
noun
(India, now historical) An armed guard or watchman.
buzzardlike
buzzardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buzzard.
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
darabukka
darabukka
noun
Alternative form of darbuka
darbukka
demibuckram
derbukka
duckboard
duckboard
noun
A panel of wooden slats typically lain on a concrete floor in a workshop. Compliance of slats arranged in two crossed layers reduces fatigue for a person operating a machine tool or working at a bench.
One of a long series of boards laid from side to side as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
Wooden, low walkway or short part of a path with one or more planks, logs, or boards laid after each other lengthwise, often two planks wide; also called bog board, bog bridge, or puncheon.
duckboards
duckboards
noun
plural of duckboard
groundbreaker
groundbreaker
noun
First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.
grubstaked
grubstaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grubstake
junkboard
junkboard
noun
A kind of heavy millboard.
kurbashed
kurbashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kurbash
outbarked
outbarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outbark
packbuilder
parbuckled
parbuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parbuckle
pseudobankrupt
quakerbird
quakerbird
noun
the sooty albatross
quarterbacked
quarterbacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quarterback
rudbeckia
rudbeckia
noun
Any member of the genus Rudbeckia of coneflowers.
studebaker
swashbucklerdom
unbackboarded
unbackward
unbackward
adj
Not backward.
unbooklearned
unbracketed
unbracketed
adj
Not bracketed.
unbraked
unbraked
adj
(of a vehicle) not fitted with brakes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unbrake
unbreakfasted
unbreakfasted
adj
Without having eaten breakfast.
unbuckramed
unbuckramed
adj
(archaic) Not stiffened with buckram; not stiff.
underback
underback
noun
(brewing) A vessel that receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.
underbake
underbake
verb
To bake insufficiently, or less than usual
underbaked
underbaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underbake