The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SEAS
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What does SEAS mean?
SEAS noun- A large body of salt water.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
- (in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
- A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.