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, confound, confuse, confused, confusion, cook, crab, cramp, crimp, fabulous formless darkness, foul up, foul-up, fouled up, fumble, galley-west, garble, gum, gum up, hash up, hassle, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a mess, jumble, jumbled, jungle, knot, labyrinth, license, louse up, maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, misrule, mix up, mix-up, mixed up, morass, muck up, mucked up, muddle, muddled, perplex, pi, play hell with, play hob with, queer, ravel, riffle, scattered, scramble, screw up, screw-up, screwed up, shuffle, sink, skimble-skamble, snake pit, snarl, snarl up, tangle, tangled skein, topsy-turvy, tumble, upside-down, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness