Terminate insects after pressure drops (8)
I believe the answer is:
pendants
'drops' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'terminate insects after pressure' is the wordplay.
'terminate' becomes 'end' (synonyms).
'insects' becomes 'ants' (ant is a kind of insect).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'pressure' becomes 'p' (abbreviation).
'end'+'ants'='endants'
'endants' after 'p' is 'PENDANTS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pendants that I've seen before include "Items of jewellery" , "Hanging ornaments, often on necklace" , "Bits of jewellery" , "They hang around the neck" .)