Word Meanings - PLOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale. (more info) 1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak. 2. A plantation laid out. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLOT)

• Cabal
• Confederacy
• conspiracy
• combination
• coterie
• gang
• faction
• plot
• junto
• league
• Conspiracy
• Intrigue
• cabal
• treason
• treachery
• machination
• coalition
• Hatch
• Prepare
• concoct
• devise
• scheme
• brew
• contrive
• incubate
• artifice
• design
• manoeuvres
• cunning
• duplicity
• trickery
• chicanery
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Machination
• Contrivance
• intrigue
• stratagem
• artful scheme

Related words: (words related to PLOT)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• CONFEDERACY
  A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn. -- League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation. (more info) 1. A league or compact between
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• COALITIONIST
  One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• HATCHEL
  An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• LEAGUE
  lieue, Pr. lega, legua, It. & LL. lega, Sp. legua, Pg. legoa, legua; all fr. LL. leuca, of Celtic origin: cf. Arm. leo, lev (perh. from French), Ir.leige ; also Ir. & Gael. leac a flag, a broad, flat stone, W. llech, -- such stones having perh.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INTRIGUER
  One who intrigues.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• BELEAGUERER
  One who beleaguers.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis