Detonation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 360 anagrams from letters in detonation (adeinnoott).
1670-80; Medieval Latin dētonātiōn- (stem of dētonātiō), equivalent to Latin dētonāt(us) (see detonate) + -iōn- -ion
The detonation that followed startled him out of his self-possession.
But it was not a detonation like that of the report of a rifle or revolver.
A detonation, loud as a hundred peals of thunder, rent the air.
He shuddered at the thought of the havoc which its detonation would cause.
In midafternoon we actually felt the detonation of two bombs a couple of miles away.
No detonation was heard in the inside, for there was no air.
Then, afresh, I saw them look in their knapsacks, and next I heard a detonation.
It was not the shouts of men, nor the detonation of guns, nor the pealing of the thunder.
Krytrons are sophisticated triggers for the detonation of nuclear bombs.
The detonation of a cartridge or so when a bombardment is going on, what does it count for?
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