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
bankrolled
bankrolled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankroll
benediktov
blockading
blockading
verb
present participle of blockade
bodkinwise
bodymaking
bookbinder
bookbinder
noun
A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
boondocker
boondocker
noun
A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.
borodankov
boundbrook
breakdowns
breakdowns
noun
plural of breakdown
brookeland
buckhounds
buckhounds
noun
plural of buckhound
budennovsk
cockabondy
cockabondy
noun
(fishing, dated) An angler's artificial fly.
deblocking
deblocking
verb
present participle of deblock
dobzhansky
donkeyback
donkeyback
noun
(with on, upon, etc.) The back of a donkey.
donnybrook
donnybrook
adj
Chaotic.
noun
A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
goldenback
goldenback
noun
(regional) The natterjack.
Any of a group of large woodpeckers that are resident breeders in tropical southern Asia.
knackebrod
knifeboard
knifeboard
noun
(historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
(historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
needlebook
needlebook
noun
A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
odsbodkins
overbanked
overbanked
adj
Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
subkingdom
subkingdom
noun
(taxonomy) A taxonomic category below kingdom and above superphylum.
(uncommon) A kingdom that is part of another kingdom, ruled by a subking.