Synonyms and related words :
agitation, annoyance, anxiety, besetment, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, burst, bustle, can of worms, commotion, confusion, disadvantage, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effort, embroilment, evil, exertion, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, great ado, hassle, headache, helter-skelter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inconvenience, maelstrom, matter, melee, pains, peck of troubles, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, problem, racket, rampage, restlessness, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, sea of troubles, shindy, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swirling, to-do, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unquiet, uproar, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, worry, yeastiness