Sentence:  While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of <WSD>water</WSD> ) , the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23 : 30 Greenwich time . 
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