Answer to "Contrivances" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DEVICES , but the solution may also be GISMOS which is one of the most recent solution (1995 in New York Times).

Contrivances crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
DEVICES	40 %	7
GISMOS	40 %	6
MACHINES	20 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contrivances

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• contraption
• appliance
• devisal
• dodge
• convenience
• lash-up
• stratagem
• widget
• gizmo
• gadget
• gismos
• contrived

Crossword Answer definitions

DEVICES noun

1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
2. A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
4. An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
5. A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
6. A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
7. Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
8. An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
9. An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
10. A spectacle or show.
11. Opinion; decision.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result DEVICES

• Contraptions
• Gadgets
• Gizmos
• Stratagems
• Ingenuity
• Guillotines and gyrostabilizers, e.g.
• Contrivances.
• Mottoes or emblems.
• Thingamajigs
• Strategems

More clues leading to the result GISMOS

• Doohickeys
• Thingies
• Thingamajigs (var.)
• Doodads
• Gadgets
• Thingamajigs
• Contrivances
• Thingies: Var.
• Beanie propellers and such: Var.
• Thingamabobs

More clues leading to the result MACHINES

• End of the quip
• Factory units
• Factory equipment
• Labor-saving devices
• Automated devices
• Lever and pulley
• Contrivances
• Industrial Revolution inventions
• Luddites' targets
• Automatons