maelstrom
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maelstrom \Mael"strom\, n. [Norw., a whirlpool.]
1. A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway. Hence: any
large or powerful whirlpool.
Syn: whirlpool, vortex.
[1913 Webster]
2. Also (Fig.) An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly
disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "maelstrom":
Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow,
backwash, backwater, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother,
botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, churn, commotion, confusion,
conturbation, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux,
discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance,
dizzy round, ebullition, eddy, embroilment, excitement, feery-fary,
ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets,
fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness,
foment, fume, fury, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, hubbub,
hullabaloo, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, malaise,
moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, perturbation, pirouette,
pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation,
restlessness, roil, round, rout, row, scramble, seethe, seething,
spasm, spin, spurt, stew, stir, storm, surge, sweat, swirl, to-do,
trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity,
turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest,
upset, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind
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