scheme /skēm/

1. A systematic plan of action for achieving an end
2. A plan for building operations of various kinds, or the buildings, etc, constructed, or the area covered (eg housing scheme, irrigation scheme)
3. A plan pursued secretly, insidiously, by intrigue, or for private ends
4. A project
5. A programme of action
6. A diagram of positions, esp (astrology) of planets
7. A table
8. A system
9. An arrangement
10. A rhetorical figure (obsolete)
11. An escapade (obsolete)

1. To plan
2. To reduce to a system
3. To lay schemes for

1. To form a plan
2. To lay schemes, to plot or intrigue
3. To indulge in an escapade (obsolete)

• merchant service
• merchant ship
• merchant ships
• merchants of death
• merchant tailor
• merchant tailors
• merchet
• merchets
• merchild
• merchildren
• merciable
• mercies
• mercifide
• mercified
• mercifies
• merciful
• mercifully
• mercifulness
• mercifulnesses
• mercify
• mercifying
• merciless
• mercilessly
• mercilessness
• mercilessnesses