[əˈkrɒstɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words


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Origin:
late 16th century: from French acrostiche, from Greek akrostikhis, from akron ‘end’ + stikhos ‘row, line of verse’. The change in the ending was due to association with -ic