acrostic

acrostic has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
• n.. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
• n.. Alt. of Acrostical
• n.. verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
• n.. a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across