Dilation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 246 anagrams from letters in dilation (adiilnot).
First recorded in 1590-1600; dilate + -ion
White is produced by the dilation, black by the contraction, of the particles of sight.
The eyes of Ian surpassed those of Victor in the matter of dilation.
A formidable condensation, awaiting the gigantic hour of dilation!
But the violet of her eyes was all but hidden by the dilation of her pupils.
Systole and diastole, the contraction and dilation of the heart and arteries.
After all, the colony would be but "an extension or dilation of the realm of England."
Thank Heaven, there is yet no dilation of the pupil; it is not too late!
During this operation they continue for a time to increase in size, in consequence of the dilation of the pent-up gas by the heat.
Even in the short moment of dilation the fluoros had given him a headache.
It was a sort of dilation of unshed tears, and yet they were not wet.
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