Sentence:  The dipole moments of water and the alcohols are about 1.8 <WSD>debyes</WSD>. The moments of ethers are smaller, about 1.2 <WSD>debyes</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10-18 statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10-30.