| agitprop | (noun) political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema | - |
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| 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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| caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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| (noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
| (noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
| crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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| (noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
| (noun) the output of something in a season | - |
| (noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
| (noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) cut short | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: graze, pasture |
| (verb) yield crops | - |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: cultivate, work |
| 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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| malaprop | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malapropism |
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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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| outcrop | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcropping, rock outcrop |
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| (verb) appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground | - |
| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
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| pitprop | (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: sprag |
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| prop | (noun) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | - |
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| (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, airscrew |
| (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: property |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
| 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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| stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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| strop | (noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
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| (verb) sharpen on a strop | - |
| 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) | - |
| turboprop | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: propjet, turbo-propeller plane |
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