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deca

/ˈdɛkə/

deca noun: the anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate. Also the clipping of decathlon.

Noun (1)

deca (countable and uncountable, plural decas)

  1. (slang, uncountable) The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate.

Proper noun capitalized: DECA

DECA

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Defence Electronics and Components Agency.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Distributive Education Clubs of America.

Noun (2) capitalized: DECA

DECA (plural DECAs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of DirecTV ethernet-over-coaxial adapter, a device created by DirecTV that allows for the running ethernet over RG59 and RG6 coax cabling.

Also used as

deca is also the clipping of decathlon.

Forms of deca

pluraldecas
pluralDECAs

Origin of deca

From deca-, from Latin decas (“ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “10”). Sense 1 is a clipping of decanoate.

Words formed from deca

Words that rhyme with deca

Questions about deca

What does deca mean?
Deca means the anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate.
What part of speech is deca?
Deca can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce deca?
Deca is pronounced /ˈdɛkə/.
What is the plural of deca?
The plural of deca is decas.

Words near deca in the dictionary

  1. debûtante
  2. dec
  3. dec'd
  4. dec-
  5. dec.
  6. deca
  7. deca dick
  8. deca-
  9. decaampere
  10. decaamperes
  11. decabillion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deca (page history and authors); DECA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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