artifice (n.)

• action
• acuteness
• adeptness
• adroitness
• affectation
• affectedness
• ambidexterity
• answer
• art
• artfulness
• artificiality
• astuteness
• blind
• bluff
• cabal
• catch
• chicane
• chicanery
• cleverness
• collusion
• complicity
• confederacy
• connivance
• conspiracy
• contrivance
• countermove
• counterplot
• coup
• covin
• craft
• craftiness
• cunning
• curve
• deceit
• deceitfulness
• deception
• demarche
• design
• device
• dishonesty
• dissimulation
• dodge
• double-dealing
• duplicity
• effort
• engineering
• euphemism
• euphuism
• expedient
• faithlessness
• falseness
• feint
• fetch
• finesse
• foxiness
• frame-up
• gambit
• game
• gamesmanship
• gimmick
• googly
• guile
• hocus-pocus
• improvisation
• ingeniousness
• ingenuity
• insidiousness
• intrigue
• inventiveness
• joker
• juggle
• jugglery
• keenness
• knavery
• machination
• makeshift
• maneuver
• manipulation
• mannerism
• means
• measure
• move
• one-upmanship
• originality
• overrefinement
• pass
• pettifoggery
• plot
• ploy
• preciosity
• preciousness
• pretentiousness
• proficiency
• purism
• quickness
• racket
• rascality
• readiness
• resort
• resource
• resourcefulness
• rigging
• ruse
• scheme
• shake-up
• sharpness
• shift
• shiftiness
• shrewdness
• skill
• skulduggery
• sleight
• slipperiness
• slyness
• sneakiness
• solution
• sophistry
• stealth
• stealthiness
• step
• stopgap
• stratagem
• strategy
• stroke
• subterfuge
• subtlety
• suppleness
• tactic
• treachery
• trick
• trickery
• trickiness
• trump
• unnaturalness
• wariness
• wile
• wiliness
• wit