raveling (root: ravel)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rav=el=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

raveling, n. [Also ravelling.].

•  The act of untwisting or of disentangling.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

raveling

Complexity

N complexity, complexness, complexus, complication, implication, intricacy, intrication, perplexity, network, labyrinth, wilderness, jungle, involution, raveling, entanglement, coil, sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels, kink, gnarl, knarl, webwork, difficulty, gnarled, knarled, complex, complexed, intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable, irreducible.