Do you want to help your kids’ to have a strong vocabulary? Are your little friends talking a lot? Don’t you think that the time has come when you should start introducing your kids to the beautiful world of new meaningful words?
If yes, then we are here to help you in this interesting journey through which you are trying to improve the vocabulary of your kids.
So, let us take the very first step to teach your children some interesting small words, along with their meaning while playing. Here, we will go through some useful four-letter words.
Here we go with the fourth letter….D.
List of 4 Letter Words Starting With D
Dozy | feeling drowsy and lazy |
Dark | with little or no light |
Deme | A subdivision of a population consisting of closely related animals, plants, or people. |
Daze | make someone unable to think or react properly |
Deed | an action that is performed intentionally |
Dyad | something that consists of two parts or elements |
Doze | sleep lightly |
Door | a sliding, hinged, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a room, building, or vehicle. |
Didy | a woven pattern on fabric consisting of small repeating design |
Delt | the thick muscle forming the rounded contour of the outer edge of the shoulder and acting to raise the arm |
Digs | lodgings |
Dims | not clear to the mind |
Dite | to set down in writing |
Dull | lacking excitement or interest |
Dune | a ridge or mound of sand or other lose sediment formed by the wind, especially in a desert |
Derm | dermis or skin |
Dumb | temporarily unwilling or unable to speak |
Dare | have the courage to do something |
Dure | severe/ hard |
Doll | a small model of human figure, typically used as a child’s toy |
Drop | let or make fall vertically |
Dire | extremely urgent or serious |
Dime | a small amount of money |
Dive | plunge head first into water with one’s arms raised over one’s head |
Dine | eat dinner |
Date | a numbered day in a month |
It will be an unforgettable experience to learn some four-letter acronyms or abbreviations that start with the letter D.
In fact, sometimes your little kids may question you about some commonly used four-word acronyms. So, let’s go through some of them below.
List of 4 letter acronyms starting with D
DACT | Data Automated Communications Terminal |
DARO | Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office |
DASL | Datapoint’s Advanced System Language |
DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network |
DBCS | Double-Byte Character Set |
DCAA | Defense Contract Adult Agency |
DCIM | Digital Camera Images |
DCOP | Desktop Communications Protocol |
DECT | Digital European Cordless Telephone |
DFCB | Data Format Control Book |
DGPS | Differential GPS |
DIME | Dense Inert Metal Explosive |
DISA | Defense Information Systems Agency |
DLIC | Detachment Left-In-Contact |
DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
DotD | Deal of the Day |
DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
DWIM | Do What I Mean |
DTSA | Defense Technology Security Administration |
Activities With 4 Letter Words Starting With D
Sometimes, you may feel the need to teach your little children several interesting and useful new words that may strengthen their vocabulary, right? However, all of your efforts may result in a big zero if your little kids do not realize how or where to use them.
Now, it is not easy to force those little kids to read some books or even encourage them to jot down several new words with their meanings. This may reduce their interest in learning new things and the urge to use them in the right places.
So, to avoid this problem, one of the most common methods is to engage them in some attractive game-like activities that will help them to stay focused and encourage them to learn more.
So, let us discuss some interesting and simple activities that will aid and encourage your children to use some of the newly learned four-letter words in an appropriate way.
1. Name Game
Naming something is one of the most incredible as well as simplest activities through which you can strengthen the vocabulary of your children without any issue.
When you are looking for some easy ways to teach some useful and significant four-letter words to your tiny tots, it will be a perfect and simple way to teach those words through a name game. In this, you just have to say something, and your kid has to give the answer.
Also, you can enjoy this activity in turns; for instance, first, you will ask a question to your kid and your kid will give the answer and next, the opposite way. With this fun activity, your tiny tots can learn some new four-letter words, starting with D, without even feeling bored.
Examples:
Q: What will you call a sliding, hinged, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a room, building, or vehicle?
Ans: Door
Q: What is a ridge or mound of sand or other loose sediment formed by the wind, especially in a desert?
Ans: Dune
Q: What is a small model of a human figure, typically used as a child’s toy?
Ans: Doll
Q: What will you call something that is lacking excitement or interest?
Ans: Dull
Q: What is a small amount of money?
Ans: Dime
Q: What will you call the action that is performed intentionally?
Ans: Deed
2. Fill In The Blanks Activity
Another very amusing yet really easy activity is known as fill-in-the-blanks. Through this you may teach your kids some useful four-letter words.
Through this game, your children will not only be able to learn the new words without any issue but also to use them perfectly. Moreover, this kind of simple word-game will be of immense help for their future studies.
Examples:
D_LL
DU_L
DAR_
D_OR
DU_B
3. Word Matching Game
Word Matching Game is another amusing learning activity which you may play with your tiny tots. You will require only two sets of Flash Cards to play the game.
One set of those cards will carry several interesting pictures and the other set will have the new 4 letter words. After this, you just have to use some interesting four-letter words like dull, dark, doll, dime, door, daze, date, dumb, etc., and get those cards that have these words written on them.
Then, just tell your kids how to read those flashcards and then match them with the respective words.
Furthermore, you show your kids how to do the matching task and allow them to follow the steps performed by you.
4. Word Puzzles
There are various types of word puzzle games that you can enjoy with your little ones. One of the simplest methods is to play it with scramble tiles and after that, you can tell your little friends to unscramble them.
This will be a fun activity when you encourage your little accomplices to enjoy this activity with some interesting four-letter words starting with D.
First, draw all the alphabets on the ground and then shout a specific four-letter word, like a doll. Hearing this, your kid has to step on each of the four alphabets of the word doll to complete the game.
Also, the opposite method will be another interesting experience. Your little friend will step on the four letters of a word one-by-one and you have to pronounce the word made by them.
Conclusion
So, we hope that these fun activities will help you in your struggle for offering some useful knowledge to your kids. For some more ideas, don’t forget to follow us.
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