| Decalogue |
the Ten Commandments. |
| decameter |
a unit of length equal to ten meters or 32.808 feet. |
| decapod |
one of a group of crustaceans having ten legs, including crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. [2 definitions] |
| decastere |
a unit of volume equal to ten steres or cubic meters or 13.079 cubic yards. |
| decasyllable |
a word or line of poetry having ten syllables. |
| decathlon |
an athletic contest in which each participant competes in ten different track and field events over a period of two days. |
| decemvir |
one of a council of ten members that drew up the first code of Roman laws in 450 B.C. [2 definitions] |
| decennial |
happening every ten years. [2/3 definitions] |
| deciare |
a unit of area equal to ten square meters or 11.96 square yards. |
| decibel |
a unit indicating the level of loudness of sound, relative to a standard level, or indicating relative differences in power levels of electrical signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two levels. (abbr.: dB) |
| decile |
in statistics, any of the values that divide a frequency distribution into ten groups of equal frequency, or any one of these groups. |
| decimal |
pertaining to the number ten or to tenths. [3/5 definitions] |
| decimal fraction |
a fraction whose denominator is some power of ten, indicated by a decimal point before the numerator, such as .7, equaling seven tenths, or .015, equaling fifteen thousandths. (Cf. common fraction.) |
| decimal system |
a numbering or measuring system based on the number ten. [1/2 definitions] |
| decuple |
ten times as great or many; tenfold. [3/4 definitions] |
| dime |
a coin of the United States and Canada equaling ten cents. |
| dime store |
a store that sells mostly inexpensive products; five-and-ten. |
| dong2 |
the chief monetary unit of Vietnam, equaling ten hao. |
| double-digit |
of, pertaining to, or denoting a rate greater than ten and less than one hundred percent, esp. used to describe a high inflation rate. |
| duodecimal |
of, concerning, or based on twelve or twelfths (used esp. to describe a number system with twelve instead of ten digits). [1/3 definitions] |
| eighty |
the product of multiplying ten times eight. [1/5 definitions] |