dropdown

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.

   Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.

2. noun An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (especially the other choices) until activated.

   That screen is good, but add a couple of dropdowns and it will be perfect.

Similar words

pull-down scrollable scrolling pop popup drop-down deployable pulldown lookup pop-up

Often followed by

list menu arrow box lists menus combo to and