| verb | make or work out a plan for; devise “They contrived to murder their boss” |
| verb | come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort “excogitate a way to measure the speed of light” |
| verb | put or send forth “She threw the flashlight beam into the corner” |
| adjective | showing effects of planning or manipulation “a novel with a contrived ending” |
| adjective | artificially formal “that artificial humility that her husband hated” |
| plan | noun | an arrangement scheme |
| planner | noun | a person who makes plans |
| planning | noun | the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening |
| project | noun | a planned undertaking |
| contriver | noun | a person who makes plans |
| design | noun | the creation of something in the mind |
| inventive | adjective | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; ; - Lewis Mumford |
| invention | noun | the creation of something in the mind |
| inventor | noun | someone who is the first to think of or make something |
| contrivance | noun | the act of devising something |
| deviser | noun | a person who makes plans |
| devising | noun | the act that results in something coming to be |
| devisal | noun | the act of devising something |
| excogitation | noun | the creation of something in the mind |
| excogitator | noun | a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly |
| formula | noun | a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle |
| formulation | noun | inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally |
| cast | noun | a violent throw |