hairball
jungle
bauchle
quagmire
ravelling
snarl
mud wrestling
rattrap
messyish
mat
sossle
mare's nest
jumbled
welter
building site
goat rodeo
hash
matted
hank
dog's breakfast
crap circus
clutter
thorniness
complication
swamp
can of worms
troublous
muddled
atangle
shit show
rickle
messiness
capharnaum
muss
mussy
arse about face
ado
cluttered
implex
shit soup
entwinement
confliction
cluttery
catch
messily
smoke
untidily
ravel
fankle
imbroglio
cul-de-sac
complexity
curly
maze
lockage
clogging
scramble
Babelic
dovetailing
bother
Fibber McGee's closet
shemozzle
scuffle
shambles
fug
sloppery
involved
how-d'ye-do
partition
tar baby
troublemaking
manifold
supercomplicated
tangled web
knot
higgledy-piggledy
hugger-mugger
craphole
entanglement
confused
perplexity
muddly
stooshie
bumble
jazz
toil
disordered
soup
befogged
upset
web
broken
complex
heaped
baroque
badass
Russian doll
complicatedly
messyish
jumbled
matted
troublous
muddled
atangle
mussy
arse about face
cluttered
implex
cluttery
curly
Babelic
sloppery
involved
troublemaking
manifold
supercomplicated
confused
muddly
disordered
befogged
upset
broken
heaped
baroque
badass
messily
untidily
hugger-mugger
complicatedly
hairball
jungle
bauchle
quagmire
ravelling
snarl
mud wrestling
rattrap
mat
mare's nest
welter
building site
goat rodeo
hash
hank
dog's breakfast
crap circus
clutter
thorniness
complication
swamp
can of worms
shit show
rickle
messiness
capharnaum
muss
ado
shit soup
entwinement
confliction
catch
smoke
ravel
fankle
imbroglio
cul-de-sac
complexity
maze
lockage
clogging
scramble
dovetailing
bother
Fibber McGee's closet
shemozzle
scuffle
shambles
fug
how-d'ye-do
partition
tar baby
tangled web
knot
higgledy-piggledy
craphole
entanglement
perplexity
stooshie
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web
Russian doll
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noun
- A tangled mess.
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- Dense rough.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- A hairy vulva.
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- An area where hobos camp together.
- A desert region.
- A migrant camp.
adj
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
verb
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
adj
noun
- A thickly tangled mess.
- A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
verb
noun
- A messy, disorganized area.
- The site of a former structure, indicated by an assemblage of features, artifacts or debris, remote-sensing data, or historic records (e.g., deed records).
- The site, the place where a building is located, is currently under construction, or shall be constructed (including structures other than buildings).
noun
- A confused mess.
- The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- A hash run.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- A stupid fellow.
- One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- The result generated by a hash function.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
verb
noun
- Mess, tangle.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb
noun
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
- The act or process of complicating.
- A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
adj
noun
noun
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- Bother; problems; hassle.
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- A fastball.
- A cigarette.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
verb
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To give off smoke.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- To beat someone at something.
- To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- To kill, especially with a gun.
- Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
noun
- A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
- A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
- A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
verb
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
- A part of something that has been divided.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- A musical score.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
verb
adj
- Complicated.
- Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
- Various in kind or quality; diverse.
- Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
verb
adv
noun
- A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
- The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ and is Hausdorff.
noun
- A tangled clump.
- A maze-like pattern.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.)
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- The bulbus glandis.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- A difficult situation.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A node.
- A group of people or things.
- A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
- A nautical mile.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
verb
verb
- To complicate.
- To play (jazz music).
- To destroy.
- To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- To distract or pester.
- To ejaculate.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
noun
- Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- Semen, jizz.
- Energy, excitement, excitability.
- Nonsense.
noun
- An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
- Dope (an illicit drug used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
- The foamy portion of a wave.
- The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
- Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
- Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
- Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
- Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
- Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
verb
adj
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- mildly physically distressed
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
noun
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- the act of upsetting something
- an improbable and unexpected victory
verb
noun
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- an interconnected system of things or people
- computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
- a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven)
- membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals
verb
adj
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- imperfectly spoken or written
- weakened and infirm
- destroyed financially
- out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
- discontinuous
- lacking a part or parts
adj
verb
adj
- A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
noun
- A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A problem.
- An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
- A complex number.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- A network of interconnected systems.
adj
- Overly and needlessly complicated.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.
noun
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