it is a word
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/destructions

it just doesn't mean instructions
( GrandmaOfShoes, Tue 2 Jun 2009, 15:18, archived)

for that usage, I mean
I remember a few people looking at me rather oddly.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Tue 2 Jun 2009, 15:20, archived)