tangled+skein
71ravel — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, answer, ball up, bottom, can of worms, clarify, clear up, complex, complicate, confound, confuse, crack, debug, decipher, decode, disembroil, disentangle,… …
72snafu — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, anarchic, anarchy, arsy varsy, ass backwards, ball up, balled up, bollix, bollix up, bollixed up, bugger, bugger up, can of worms, chaos, chaotic, complex,… …
73snake pit — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, can of worms, complex, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, meander, mesh, mess, perplex, ravel, snafu, snarl, tangle, tangled skein, webwork, wheels within wheels,… …
74wheels within wheels — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, action, can of worms, clockworks, complex, drive train, gear, innards, jungle, knot, labyrinth, machinery, maze, meander, mechanism, mesh, mess, motion, movement …
75wilderness — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Chinese puzzle, Death Valley, Gordian knot, Lebensraum, Rube Goldberg contraption, Sahara, air space, back country, back of beyond, backcountry, backlands, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens,… …
76Criminality and Psychiatry — In his novel East of Eden (1952), John Steinbeck wrote of the character Cathy Ames: It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her life. Some balance wheel was… …
77complexity — n 1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity. 2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle,… …
78imbroglio — n 1. complication, complexity, perplexity, problem; difficulty, entanglement, involvement; confusion, uncertainty, quandary; muddle, mess, botch, jumble, hodgepodge; trouble, Inf. hot water, scrape; dilemma, predicament, plight, Inf. pickle, Inf …
79labyrinth — n 1. maze, garden maze, winding path, winding course, circuitous course, webwork, complicated arrangement; convolution, circumvolution, winding, windings and turnings, meander, meanderings and turnings; Anat. inner ear. 2. mystery, enigma, riddle …
80narle — a hard swelling on the neck, arising from a cold. Glouc. Narle is likewise a term for a knot in an oak, thence styled a narly oak. A narle is also a knot in a tangled skein of silk or thread …
