1. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
   - word square 
2. Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Derived forms: acrostics

Type of: literary composition, literary work, mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, riddler, teaser

Encyclopedia: Acrostic

• relational
• relational adjective
• relational database
• relational database management system
• relations
• relationship
• relative
• relative atomic mass
• relative clause
• relative density
• relative frequency
• relative humidity
• relative incidence
• relative majority
• relative molecular mass
• relative pronoun
• relative quantity
• shoe industry
• shoe leather
• shoe polish
• shoe repairing
• shoe shop
• shoe store
• shoebill
• shoebird