S: (n) contrivance (the faculty of contriving; inventive skill) "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
S: (n) contrivance, stratagem, dodge (an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade) "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
S: (n) contrivance (an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.) "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
S: (n) lash-up, contrivance (any improvised arrangement for temporary use)
S: (n) devisal, contrivance (the act of devising something)