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
bounceback
bounceback
noun
(Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
(marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
A rebound.
An economic recovery.
buckhannon
buckhannon
Proper noun
a city in West Virginia, USA
bullockman
frankhouse
houndshark
houndshark
noun
Alternative spelling of hound shark
kailuakona
kaligenous
kaligenous
adj
(chemistry) Forming alkalis with oxygen, as some metals do.
keratinous
keratinous
adj
Consisting of, or made from keratin.
keratoncus
knockabout
knockabout
adj
Boisterous
Suitable for rough use.
noun
(circus) A tumbler.
(entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
(sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
A person living in rough, violent conditions.
A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
Clothing suitable for rough use.
kommunarsk
kuomintang
kuomintang
Proper noun
A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
kuropatkin
kuropatkin
Proper noun
Russian Imperial Minister of War from 1898 to 1904.
leukopenia
leukopenia
noun
(medicine) An abnormally low count of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in the blood.
leukotaxin
mountebank
mountebank
noun
(obsolete) An acrobat.
Any boastful, false pretender.
One who sells by deception; a con artist.
One who sells dubious medicines.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
(transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
muskhogean
muskhogean
Noun
Muskogee
Proper noun
Muskogee
nouakchott
nouakchott
Proper noun
The capital of Mauritania.
outbarking
outbarking
verb
present participle of outbark
outblacken
outflanked
outflanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outflank
outflanker
outflanker
noun
(military) One who is positioned so as to outflank the enemy in combat.
outranking
outranking
verb
present participle of outrank
outtalking
outtalking
verb
present participle of outtalk
outtasking
outtasking
verb
present participle of outtask
outthanked
outthanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outthank
outwalking
outwalking
verb
present participle of outwalk
pequannock
quakertown
snakemouth
snakemouth
noun
The orchid Pogonia ophioglossoides.
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
subworkman
subworkman
noun
A subordinate workman.
trackhound
turkomania
turkomanic
tutworkman
tutworkman
noun
A laborer who carries out tut-work.
unakhotana
unchokable
unchokable
adj
Not chokable.
uncloaking
uncloaking
verb
present participle of uncloak
uncookable
uncookable
adj
Not cookable.
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.
unevokable
unevokable
adj
That cannot be evoked.
unforsaken
unforsaken
adj
Not forsaken.
ungoatlike
ungoatlike
adj
Not goatlike.
unknowable
unknowable
adj
Not knowable; not able to be known.
noun
Something that cannot be known.
unknowably
unknowably
adv
In an unknowable way; ineffably.
unlockable
unlockable
adj
Capable of being unlocked.
Not capable of being locked.
noun
(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.
unsmokable
unsmokable
adj
Impossible or undesirable to smoke.
unworkable
unworkable
adj
Not workable or operable; not practical; unmanageable.
noun
Something that is not workable, or cannot be made to work.