Phrase Hound found 39 phrases and 10 compound words that contain characters. The most common are listed below. Open characters in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 39
- special charactersplural of special character: A symbol that is not an alphanumeric character; a nonalphanumeric character.
- main charactersplural of main character: A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).
- control charactersplural of control character: A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.
- characters per inchA unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to specify font sizes that have the same width for each character (monospaced), however it may also be used …
- cartoon charactersplural of cartoon character: A fictional character in a cartoon.
- Chinese charactersplural of Chinese character: Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
- original charactersplural of original character: A fictional character created by an author or artist, usually one from a fanwork that is not present in the official canon.
- player charactersplural of player character: A character in a role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player.
- stock charactersplural of stock character: Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.
- title charactersplural of title character: A fictional character whose name or description is present in the title of the work where the character appears.
- escape charactersplural of escape character: A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and …
- ghost charactersplural of ghost character: A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to have no purpose.
- non-player charactersplural of non-player character: A character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by a player.
- private-use charactersplural of private-use character: A character whose use is defined by private users and companies rather than defined by a standard such as Unicode, and which therefore has no universally accepted meaning.
- Hebrew charactersplural of Hebrew character: Orthosia gothica, a noctuid moth having distinctive black wing markings that resemble the Hebrew letter nun (נ).
- combining charactersplural of combining character: A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).
- base charactersplural of base character: A character whose appearance is modified by one or more combining characters.
- lead charactersplural of lead character: The main protagonist in a work.
- round charactersplural of round character: A complex literary character with fully developed and dynamic traits.
- box-drawing charactersplural of box-drawing character: A text character used for creating geometric frames and boxes.
- supplementary charactersplural of supplementary character: Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
- delete charactersplural of delete character: the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape
- Han charactersplural of Han character: Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
- replacement charactersplural of replacement character: A symbol, often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark, used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to the correct symbols.
- null charactersplural of null character: A control character with the value zero and no visual representation.
Compound words 10
- metacharactersplural of metacharacter: A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
- microcharactersplural of microcharacter: A character, or distinguishing trait, observable via microscopy.
- supercharactersplural of supercharacter: A superhero or supervillain.
- biocharactersplural of biocharacter: A defining characteristic of an organism or group of organisms
- holocharactersplural of holocharacter: A holographically simulated person (e.g. in a holoprogram).
- megacharactersplural of megacharacter: One million characters of text.
- noncharactersplural of noncharacter: That which is not a character (unit of text).
- pseudocharactersplural of pseudocharacter: A text character invented for language recognition tests, etc. and not occurring in real-world writing.
- spokescharactersplural of spokescharacter: A character used as a spokesperson.
- subcharactersplural of subcharacter: A lesser or secondary character in fiction.