telestich

 [tuh-les-tik, tel-uh-stik]  

te·les·tich

   [tuh-les-tik, tel-uh-stik]
noun Prosody.
a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
Compare acrostic.

Origin:
1630–40; tele-2 + stich1
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Telestich is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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telestich (tɪˈlɛstɪk, ˈtɛlɪˌstɪk)
 
—n
a short poem in which the last letters of each successive line form a word
 
[C17: from Greek telos end + stich]

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