[CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

Using gnome-terminal and the like, you can set the font size that you want and then if you drag the window larger or smaller, you get more or less character per line.

Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out function that's close to what I want but it's not "infinite" and works by repeatedly hitting hotkeys, not by changing the window size.

The objective here is to use ncurses-based programs and be able to "blow them up" by dragging the terminal window bigger or clicking the maximize button.