These are the meanings of the letters PCTRIOIC when you unscramble them.
- Citric (a.)
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
- Critic (a.)
Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.
- Critic (n.)
An act of criticism; a critique.
- Critic (n.)
One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.
- Critic (n.)
One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.
- Critic (n.)
The art of criticism.
- Critic (v. i.)
To criticise; to play the critic.
- Picric (a.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
- Tropic (a.)
Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
- Tropic (a.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
- Tropic (n.)
One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
- Tropic (n.)
One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
- Tropic (n.)
The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.