1. A word search apparatus comprising: a words dictionary for storing a plurality of words; a character recognition dictionary for storing coordinate data of a standard character pattern of a handwritten character, and a character corresponding to said coordinate data; a handwritten character input device for receiving an input of said handwritten character; a pattern matching means for matching between said handwritten character received by said handwritten character input device and said character recognition dictionary is searched for from said words dictionary; a word extracting means for extracting a word including a character corresponding to one or a plurality of character patterns; a part of character string generating means for extracting only a character string corresponding to one or a plurality of said character patterns from a search result of said words dictionary to generate a part of character string; means for receiving a selection of one part of character string from the generated parts of character strings; means for extracting only a word including the selected a part of character string from the search result based on said words dictionary; and means for displaying the extracted word.