Detective is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 133 anagrams from letters in detective (cdeeeittv).
First recorded in 1830-40; detect + -ive
Again, he saw the detective walking forward, out there in the corridor.
The Government had recalled all the men but five, who were left in charge of detective Carpenter.
"You'll have the chance before long," replied the detective.
And with the detective went a man whose gait was slinking, craven.
Back at police headquarters, Chief of Police Michael Floore Sr. ran out of the detective bureau, barking into a walkie talkie.
She had a simple answer to my inquiry about the calls that were never returned—from her or anyone else in the detective bureau.
The detective indulged himself in a cackle of sneering merriment.
On the second floor I rang a buzzer at the door of the detective bureau.
The Glock family feud gets messier with new court documents alleging that gun magnate Gaston had a detective follow his ex-wife.
On Thursday, detective Superintendent McDonald described his account as “harrowing” and compelling.
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