A drop cap (dropped capital) is a large capital letter used as a decorative element at the beginning of a paragraph or section. The size of a drop cap is usually two or more lines.
a superscript is a character(s) half the height of a standard character and printed higher than the rest of the text.
In word processing, the word indent is used to describe the distance, or number of blank spaces used to separate a paragraph from the left or right margins.
