Deterrent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 119 anagrams from letters in deterrent (deeenrrtt).
1820-30; Latin dēterrent- (stem of dēterrēns), present participle of dēterrēre. See deter, -ent
Concealed carry is good for responding to a crime in progress; open carry is a deterrent to it.
This is supposed to act as a deterrent, but may be an incitement.
These steps would be plausible, purely defensive, and a deterrent for starters.
Still, there may be a deterrent for women that is far less spoken about, at least in polite circles.
The ease of getting a livelihood acts as a deterrent to ambition.
Prosecutors described the verdict and the sentencing as a “deterrent.”
It is a deterrent for others, not a healing process for the man himself.
This is only an imitation of nature, in which pain is a sanction and a deterrent.
The school has in most cases been a deterrent to their progress, rather than a help.
Here we have a recrudescence of the idea that great penalties are deterrent.