A lot of ice cream's melting in pots, perhaps (8)
I believe the answer is:
ceramics
'pots perhaps' is the definition.
'ceramics' can be an answer for 'pots' (I've seen this before). I'm unsure of the 'perhaps' bit.
'a lot of ice cream's melting' is the wordplay.
'a lot of' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'melting' is an anagram indicator.
'ice' with its last letter removed is 'ic'.
'ic'+'creams'='iccreams'
'iccreams' is an anagram of 'CERAMICS'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ceramics that I've seen before include "Andy -, US artist, filmmaker" , "Potter's products" , "China etc" , "The art and technique of making pottery" , "Items of fired clay" .)