small capital
noun
a capital letter of a particular font, the same height as the x-high letters.
Also called
small cap.
Origin of small capital
First recorded in 1760–70
Words nearby small capital
Example sentences from the Web for small capital
In No. 28 the first four words are in small-capital letters, the first word of the sentence beginning, of course, with a capital.
Why We Punctuate |William Livingston Klein
British Dictionary definitions for small capital
small capital
noun
a letter having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as a lower-case letter