| droll |
wryly amusing or humorous. |
| drollery |
something funny. [3 definitions] |
| -drome |
racecourse. [3 definitions] |
| dromedary |
an African or Asian camel with one hump. (Cf. Bactrian camel.) |
| drone1 |
a male honeybee or other male bee, whose only function is to impregnate the queen. [3 definitions] |
| drone2 |
to produce a low, continuous hum. [5 definitions] |
| drongo |
any of a family (Dicruridae) of insectivorous passerine birds with black plumage and a forked tail. |
| drool |
to exude saliva from the mouth; drivel. [3 definitions] |
| droop |
to hang or sink down; bend limply. [4 definitions] |
| droopy |
drooping or inclined to droop. [2 definitions] |
| drop |
a small amount of liquid, usu. forming a tiny sphere. [17 definitions] |
| drop a beat |
to miss a beat in music, or otherwise lose the rhythm or continuity of something; falter. [2 definitions] |
| drop by |
to come for a casual and usually brief visit or errand, generally with little or no planning and often on one's way to somewhere else. |
| drop cookie |
a cookie made by dropping dough from a spoon onto the baking sheet, rather than by shaping or rolling it. |
| drop curtain |
a stage curtain that is lowered and raised rather than drawn to or from the sides. |
| drop-down menu |
a menu in a computer program interface whose title is visible but whose contents are revealed only when the title is clicked on, allowing a user to choose an item on the menu. |
| drop-forge |
to shape (heated metal) with a drop hammer. |
| drop forging |
an object made by drop-forging metal. |
| drop hammer |
a powered machine consisting of an anvil, on which heated metal is held, and a heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop on the metal in order to shape it. |
| drop in |
to come for a casual visit, often without arranging to in advance (often fol. by "on"). |
| drop kick |
a kick, formerly used in football, in which the kicker drops the ball and kicks it as it begins to rebound. (Cf. place kick, punt1.) |