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  • mammal any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
  • mohawk haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
  • res a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells
  • amalgam an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
  • monounsaturated (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond
  • mammalian any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
  • tenured appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime
  • apocrypha 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
  • minor scale a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
  • cuculiform bird birds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos)
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