Reverse Dictionary: SCHEME

ADJECTIVES
► CALCULATING selfishly scheming → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CRAFTY-HEADED shrewd; cunning; scheming → 1589 obs.
► CRAYFISHING acting in a cowardly or scheming manner → 1966 Aust.
► FAR-CASTING scheming, shrewd → c1400 obs.
► POLITIC scheming, crafty, cunning → 1543 derogatory 
► QUAINT cunning, crafty, given to scheming or plotting → a1225 obs.
► SCHEMISH scheming, manoeuvring, covetous, unscrupulous and grasping in bargaining → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SCHEMY scheming; devious, tricky, sly → 1888 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► AFTER-GAME a scheme implemented in order to retrieve something lost, esp. one’s reputation → 1596 obs.
► ANGLE a scheme; a workable method of deception or exploitation → 1920 Amer. sl.
► ANGLE-SHOOTING scheming → 1958-59 Amer. sl.
► BLOCK a scheme, contrivance; generally used in a bad sense → 1553 Sc. obs.
► CHESTNUT a scheme, a trick → L19 sl., orig. US
► COLLOGUE a private talk; a secret plan or scheme → E19
► DART a plan, an aim, a scheme, an idea → 1887 Aust. sl.
► DRIFT a scheme, plot, design → a1535 obs.
► FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand → 1923 US sl.
► GAG a plan, a scheme → M19 sl.
► GAMES tricks, wiles, schemes, manoeuvres → 1660
► GUM GAME a trick, dodge, or scheme → 1859 Amer. dial.
► HUSTLE a swindle; a hoax; a get-rich-quick scheme → 1943 sl., orig. US criminals’ usage
► LAYOUT a plan, a scheme → 1867 Amer. dial.
► LURK a dodge, racket, or scheme → 1891 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MACHINATION the act or process of contriving or planning; contrivance, intrigue, plotting; an intrigue, plot, scheme → 1549
► NAVATION a contrivance, scheme, plan → 1628 obs. rare
► PROTOPLOT an original plot or scheme → 1584 obs.
► RACKET a swindle or a means of deception; criminal trickery; hoaxing; a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action → 1812 sl.
► RANIKABOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper, a prank; ‘monkeyshine’; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity → L19 Amer. sl.
► RANNYGAZOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity → L19 Amer. sl.
► RORT a dodge, a trick, a scheme, a racket; a fraudulent or dishonest practice → c1910 Aust. sl.
► SCAM a plan, a scheme → 1940s sl.
► SCAMUS a plan, a scheme → 1940s sl.
► SET-UP a scheme or trick by which an innocent person is incriminated → 1968 sl., orig. US
► SKANK a confidence trick; a fraudulent scheme → 1980s W. Indies & Black British teen sl.
► SWIM an enterprise, a scheme → 1860 colloq.
► TABLE a sketch, plan, scheme → a1577 obs.
► VINYA a little scheme or project → 1929 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABLE DEALER a schemer → Bk1910 Ireland 
► ANGLE SHOOTER a schemer → 1947 Amer. sl.
► ARTIST a person who practices artifice, deception, cunning, etc., a schemer, a rogue → 1648
► BOOBY TRAP a scheming woman → 1990 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LIVE ONE an enthusiastic participant in a proposed scheme → 1950s sl.
► MACHIAVEL ► MACHIVELL one who acts on the principles of Machiavelli (a celebrated Florence statesman who advocated the pursuit of statecraft at the expense of morality); an intriguer; an unscrupulous schemer → 1570
► MACHIAVELLIAN ► MACHIVILIAN one who follows Machiavelli’s principles in statecraft or in general conduct; an intriguer; an  unscrupulous schemer → 1568
► MACHIAVELLIST ► MACHIVELIST one who follows Machiavelli’s principles in statecraft or in general conduct; an intriguer; an unscrupulous schemer → 1589
► MACHINATOR one who contrives or schemes; a contriver, intriguer, plotter, schemer; usually in a bad sense → 1611
► MODELLER a planner, schemer, contriver → Bk1790
► POLITICIAN a schemer or plotter; a shrewd, sagacious, or crafty person; one whose behaviour is likened to that of a professional politician → 1586 
► PRACTISANT a schemer; a plotter, a conspirator → 1550 obs. rare
► TABULATOR one who tabulates or draws up a table or scheme → 1885
► VOLPONE a cunning schemer or miser; a hoarder of wealth → 1710 obs.

VERBS
► ANGLE to scheme; to make money or a livelihood by illegitimate means → 1925 Amer. sl.
► AUGUR to plan, to scheme → 1923 Amer. dial.
► COLLOGUE ► COLOGUE to confer privately and confidentially; to scheme or plot → L18
► CONNIVER to connive with in secret, to intrigue, to plot, to scheme → 1927 Amer. dial.
► CONNIVERATE to connive with in secret, to intrigue; to plot, to scheme → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CRAFT to act craftily; to use cunning or deception; to scheme → 1530 obs.
► CRAYFISH to act in a cowardly or scheming manner → 1930 Aust.
► DANCE IN THE SANDBOX to scheme, to deceive → 1960s African-American sl.
► FIGURE to scheme → 1889 Amer. dial.
► MACHINATE to lay plots; to intrigue; to scheme; to contrive; to plot; to plan → 1600
► MACHINE to contrive, to plot; to devise schemes (against a person) → c1450 obs.
► PACK to enter into a private arrangement; to agree in a secret or underhand design; to plot, to conspire, to scheme, to intrigue → a1529 obs.
► SHOOT AN ANGLE to scheme; to plot → 1954 Amer. sl.
► SHOOT THE ANGLES to scheme, to plot → 1962 Amer. sl.
► SUBTLE to scheme, to plan craftily → c1380 obs.
► TRIGGER to scheme, to contrive, to lay plans → 1888 Amer. dial.