Plural of descender; the multiple parts of letters that extend below the baseline in a word or piece of text.
Simply the plural form of descender, following regular English pluralization with the -s suffix.
The word 'descenders' itself contains descenders—the letters g, j, p, q, and y all drop below the line, which makes it a self-referential word in typography.
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