artifice
cabal
chicane
chicanery
collusion
complicity
complot
confederacy
connivance
connivery
conspiracy
contrivance
contriving
counterplot
deceit
deception
deep-laid plot
dodgery
engineering
finagling
finesse
foul play
frame-up
fraud
game
intrigue
little game
machination
maneuvering
manipulation
pettifoggery
pettifogging
plot
plotting
practice
rigging
scheme
schemery
scheming
sharp practice
skulduggery
sleight
stratagem
supercherie
trick
trickery
underhand dealing
underplot
web of intrigue
nonwoven