descender

Other forms: descenders

Definitions of descender

1. noun

   someone who descends
   types:

   abseiler, rappeller

   a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point

   type of:

   mover

   someone who moves
2. noun

   a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
   type of:

   alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet

   the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
3. noun

   (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
   type of:

   line

   a mark that is long relative to its width