The term COLERIDGE CHARACTER refers to two characters created by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first character is the MARINER, a seven-letter word, who is the protagonist of Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient MARINER'. The second character is the Ancient MARINER, a fourteen-letter word, who is an old sailor in the poem and tells the story of his voyage and the supernatural events that occurred during it.