subterfuge (n.)

• alibi
• apology
• art
• artifice
• befooling
• bickering
• blind
• bluff
• burial
• burying
• catch
• cheat
• chicane
• chicanery
• circumvention
• cloak
• closeness
• clouding
• color
• concealment
• conspiracy
• contrivance
• coup
• cover
• cover-up
• covering
• covertness
• craft
• curve
• darkening
• deceit
• deception
• deceptiveness
• delusion
• design
• device
• discreetness
• discretion
• dishonesty
• dodge
• dodging
• double-dealing
• dupery
• entanglement
• entrapment
• equivocation
• evasion
• evasiveness
• excuse
• expedient
• facade
• fallaciousness
• fallacy
• falseness
• feint
• fencing
• fetch
• flimflam
• fooling
• fraud
• front
• gambit
• game
• gimmick
• gloss
• googly
• guise
• hairsplitting
• hallucination
• handle
• hedging
• hiddenness
• hiding
• hocus-pocus
• hugger-mugger
• illusion
• interment
• intrigue
• invisibility
• joker
• juggle
• jugglery
• knavery
• maneuver
• mask
• masking
• mirage
• move
• mystification
• occultation
• paltering
• pass
• pettifoggery
• phantasm
• plot
• ploy
• pretense
• pretension
• pretext
• prevarication
• protestation
• racket
• refuge
• ruse
• scheme
• screen
• screening
• secrecy
• secretion
• secretiveness
• self-deception
• semblance
• sham
• shift
• shifting
• show
• shuffling
• sleight
• stalking-horse
• stratagem
• strategy
• tactic
• tergiversation
• trick
• trickery
• trickiness
• uncommunicativeness
• varnish
• veil
• victimization
• vision
• wile