airdrop | (noun) delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft | - |
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backdrop | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, background |
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dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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(noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
(noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
(noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
(noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
(noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
(noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
(noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
(verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
(verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
(verb) go down in value | - |
(verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
(verb) change from one level to another | - |
(verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
(verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
(verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
(verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
(verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
(verb) lose (a game) | - |
(verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
(verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
(verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
(verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
(verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
(verb) to fall vertically | - |
(verb) let fall to the ground | - |
(verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
(verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
(verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
(verb) terminate an association with | - |
(verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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(noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
gumdrop | (noun) a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals | - |
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maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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snowdrop | (noun) common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers | Synonyms: Anemone quinquefolia, wood anemone |
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teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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(noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |