machination

synonyms

artifice

behind-the-scenes influence

cabal

chicane

chicanery

collusion

complicity

complot

confederacy

connivance

connivery

conspiracy

contrivance

contriving

counterplot

covin

deep-laid plot

design

designing

device

devices

dodgery

engineering

expedients

finagling

finesse

foul play

frame-up

gambit

game

influence

intrigue

intriguing

little game

maneuvering

maneuvers

manipulating

manipulation

move

pettifoggery

pettifogging

plot

plotting

ploy

political influence

practice

rigging

ruse

scheme

schemery

hypernyms

game

plot

secret plan

hyponyms

priestcraft

etymologically-related-terms

machinal

machinate

same-contexts

alembic

balls-up

cabal

chess-player

circumvention

complot

counterplot

cross-genre

dinner-bell

feint

machinations

mitrailleuse

offshoot

quarter-breed

ruse

smirking

stratagem

tattle

thing

underplot

vizir

wile

wresting

wretch

rhymes

Alsatian

Americanization

Appalachian

Balkanization

Christianization

Confederation

Corp.

Croatian

Dalmatian

Desegregation

Finlandization

Haitian

Horatian

Incarnation

Islamization

Japanimation

Nation

Plantation

Reformation

Revelation

Russification

Tribulation

Visitation

abbreviation

abdication

aberration

abomination

abrogation

acceleration

acclamation

acclimation

accommodation

accreditation

accumulation

accusation

acidification

activation

adaptation

adjudication

administration

admiration

adoration

adulation

adulteration

advocation

affectation

affiliation

affirmation

affrication

agglomeration