guideline (n.)

• approach
• arrangement
• attack
• blueprint
• calculation
• canon
• code
• commandment
• conception
• contrivance
• convention
• criterion
• design
• device
• dictum
• disposition
• enterprise
• figuring
• foresight
• forethought
• form
• formality
• formula
• formulary
• game
• idea
• imperative
• intention
• law
• layout
• lineup
• mapping
• maxim
• method
• methodology
• mitzvah
• moral
• norm
• norma
• ordinance
• organization
• plan
• planning
• prearrangement
• prescription
• principle
• procedure
• program
• rationalization
• regulation
• rubric
• rule
• schedule
• schema
• schematization
• scheme
• setup
• standard
• strategy
• system
• systematization
• tactics
• tenet
• way