| Subject | English | German |
| chem., el. | drop line | Falleitung |
| comp., MS | drop lines | Bezugslinien (In line and area charts, lines that extend from a data point to the category (x) axis. Useful in area charts to clarify where one data marker ends and the next begins) |
| earth.sc., life.sc. | drop-lines | Profilschraffen |