contrivance (n.)
- action
- agent
- angle
- answer
- apparatus
- appliance
- approach
- architectonics
- architecture
- argument
- arrangement
- art
- artifice
- atmosphere
- attack
- authorship
- background
- beginning
- blind
- blueprint
- brainchild
- cabal
- calculation
- catastrophe
- characterization
- chicanery
- coinage
- collusion
- color
- complication
- complicity
- conception
- concoction
- confederacy
- connivance
- conspiracy
- continuity
- contraption
- countermove
- counterplot
- coup
- covin
- craft
- creation
- creature
- deceit
- demarche
- denouement
- design
- development
- device
- devising
- disposition
- dodge
- dummy
- dupe
- effort
- engineering
- enterprise
- episode
- expedient
- fable
- fabrication
- feint
- fetch
- figuring
- finesse
- foresight
- forethought
- frame-up
- gadget
- gambit
- game
- generation
- gimcrack
- gimmick
- gizmo
- go-between
- handmaid
- handmaiden
- hatching
- idea
- implement
- improvisation
- incident
- instrument
- intention
- intermediary
- intermediate
- intermedium
- intrigue
- invention
- jugglery
- knavery
- layout
- lever
- line
- lineup
- machination
- makeshift
- maneuver
- manipulation
- mapping
- means
- measure
- mechanism
- mediator
- medium
- method
- methodology
- midwife
- minion
- mintage
- mood
- motif
- move
- movement
- organ
- organization
- origination
- pawn
- peripeteia
- plan
- planning
- plaything
- plot
- ploy
- prearrangement
- procedure
- program
- puppet
- racket
- rationalization
- recognition
- resort
- resource
- rigging
- ruse
- schedule
- schema
- schematization
- scheme
- servant
- setup
- shake-up
- shift
- slant
- slave
- sleight
- solution
- step
- stooge
- stopgap
- story
- stratagem
- strategy
- stroke
- structure
- subject
- subterfuge
- switch
- system
- systematization
- tactic
- tactics
- theme
- tone
- tool
- topic
- toy
- trick
- trickery
- trump
- twist
- utensil
- vehicle
- way
- wile
