8-Letter Words Starting: SEA

• an earthquake at the sea bed

• A valve in the hull of a vessel used to let in water, either to clean the bilges, flood a ballast tank, or scuttle the vessel

• Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners, such as a hill or steeple.

• A beacon, buoy, etc. placed in the sea to aid navigation.

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search

• a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.

• someone making a search or inquiry

• a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items

• large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America