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The answer DESCENDER has 5 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of descender in various dictionaries:
noun - someone who descends
noun - a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
noun - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
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| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Feb 13 2018 Monkey Wrench Daily Puzzle |
| Oct 24 2016 The Times - Cryptic |
| Sep 24 2014 The Telegraph - Toughie |
| Nov 5 2010 The Times - Specialist |
| Jun 19 2007 The Times - Cryptic |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| A part of a letter that extends below the level of the base of a letter such as x (as in g and p). |
| One that descends. |
| Printing The part of the lowercase letters, such as g, p, and q, that extends below the other lowercase letters. |
| Printing A letter with such a part. |
| (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters |
| a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters |
| someone who descends |
| Descender description |
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In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font. The line that descenders reach down to is known as the beard line.For example, in the letter y, the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging. In the letter p, it is the stem reaching down past the o. * In most fonts, descenders are reserved for lowercase characters such as g, j, q, p, y, and sometimes f. Some fonts, however, also use descenders for some numerals (typically 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9). Such numerals are called old-style numerals. (Some italic fonts, such as Computer Modern italic, put a descender on the numeral 4 but not on any other numerals. Such fonts are not considered old-style.) Some fonts also use descenders for the tails on a few uppercase letters such as J and Q.The parts of characters that extend above the x-height of a font are called ascenders. |