Detention is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 192 anagrams from letters in detention (deeinnott).
1400-50; late Middle English Latin dētentiōn- (stem of dētentiō), equivalent to dētent(us) detained (past participle of dētinēre; see detain) + -iōn- Examples for detention
His detention was doubtless irregular, for by law he should have been sent beyond the seas. He then escaped from his detention and arrived on Tverskaya Avenue to join his supporters. On Sunday afternoon both Babinets and Dimitriyev were released after several hours of detention. After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday. detention, most courteously arranged, while the Ambassador was communicated with. That done, he resorted to measures for La Boulaye's detention. But on Monday, when he was scheduled to appear in court, KSM was back in his detention site. Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too. We had good passages out and home, experiencing no detention or accidents. He had a warrant authorising her detention in a home for chronic inebriates.