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  • liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
  • lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
  • low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
  • lower set — (mathematics)   A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
  • lowermost — lowest1 .
  • meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
  • metalwork — objects made of metal.
  • minitower — a vertical case, smaller than a tower, designed to house a computer system standing on a desk or floor.
  • miterwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
  • mitrewort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
  • moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
  • monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
  • narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
  • navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
  • net worth — net assets.
  • networked — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
  • networker — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
  • nonwriter — a person who does not (usually) write or cannot write (well); a person who is not a writer
  • northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
  • nowhither — to no place; nowhere: paths leading nowhither.
  • otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
  • outerwear — garments, as raincoats or overcoats, worn over other clothing for warmth or protection outdoors; overclothes.
  • outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
  • outwitter — One who outwits another.
  • outworked — Simple past tense and past participle of outwork.
  • over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • overstrew — to strew or scatter over.
  • oversweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
  • overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
  • overtower — to tower above
  • overwatch — to watch over.
  • overwater — to give too much water to
  • overwrest — to strain too much
  • overwrite — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
  • overwrote — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
  • pet owner — a person who owns a pet
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • power cut — break in electricity supply
  • power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
  • power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
  • rockwater — water that comes out of rock
  • rosewater — perfume, flavouring from rose petals
  • screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
  • screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
  • seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
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