Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
(2) - Decimal (a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.

(1) - Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.

(1) - Decimate (v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
(2) - Decimate (v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
(3) - Decimate (v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

(1) - Decimation (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
(2) - Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
(3) - Decimation (n.) A tithing.

(1) - Decimator (n.) One who decimates.