Decimeter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 280 anagrams from letters in decimeter (cdeeeimrt).
From the French word décimètre, dating back to 1800-10. See deci-, meter1
They gird the body with belts interwoven from brass wire a decimeter or so in width.
In the "Children's House" days they had the long stair rods which contain the meter and its decimeter subdivisions.
Five of them placed in a row will, of course, give the length of the decimeter; and two of them will weigh a decagram.
We may estimate it at 1/3 or 1/4 of an ohm for polar surfaces one decimeter square, separated by a distance of five centimeters.