Sentence:  Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill , they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of <WSD>water</WSD> that reached clear to the surrounding hills . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent