Decimal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 268 anagrams from letters in decimal (acdeilm).
1600-10; Medieval Latin decimālis of tenths, equivalent to Latin decim(a) tenth (derivative of decem ten) + -ālis -al1
That seemed to be typical; the frontiers of science, now, were all decimal points.
The Duke has got some craze of his own about decimal coinage.
As Marcus says, the devil is often in the details in cases like this, “some decimal point in the wrong place.”
Proof of this is found in the wide extended use of the decimal system.
From these, as is well known, our decimal notation is derived.
In this case the constant is designated by the decimal .005.
One was really beautiful, allowing a decimal point off her nose.
He was a mathematician as far as long division and decimal fractions.
It was he who first carried the computation of π to 35 decimal places.
decimal three-fifty or thereabouts I fancy from the look of it.