untangling

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

untangling
    n 1: the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
         [syn: {unsnarling}, {untangling}, {disentanglement},
         {extrication}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "untangling":
      accomplishment, answer, ascertainment, breaking out, clearing,
      clearing up, cracking, decipherment, decoding, denouement,
      determination, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disengagement,
      disentanglement, disinvolvement, dislodgment, end, end result,
      explanation, extrication, finding, finding-out, freeing,
      interpretation, issue, outcome, reason, releasing, resolution,
      resolving, result, riddling, solution, solving, sorting out,
      unknotting, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unsnarling,
      unspinning, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, working, working-out