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)

schēˈmer noun

schēˈmie noun (Scot sl)

A working-class youth from a council estate

schēˈming noun and adjective

• ferrocyanogen
• ferrocyanogens
• ferroelectric
• ferroelectricity
• ferrograms
• ferrographies
• ferrography
• ferromagnesian
• ferromagnetic
• ferromagnetism
• ferromagnetisms
• ferro-manganese
• ferro-molybdenum
• ferro-nickel
• ferronière
• ferronières
• ferronnière
• ferronnières
• ferro-print
• ferro-prints
• ferroprussiate
• ferroprussiate print
• ferroprussiates
• ferrosoferric
• ferrotype