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Prohibition
- noun - a decree that prohibits something
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
- refusal to approve or assent to
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
Prohibitive
- adjective - tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"
Prohibitory
- adjective - tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"
Projectiles
- noun - a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
Projections
- noun - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- a planned undertaking
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- the act of projecting out from something
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
Projectment
- - Design; contrivance; projection.
Prokaryotes
- noun - a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma
Prokaryotic
- adjective - having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei
Prolegomena
- noun - a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise
Proletarian
- adjective - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"
- belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat