Noun

• S: (n) clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother (a confused multitude of things)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) disorderliness, disorder (a condition in which things are not in their expected places) "the files are in complete disorder"
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) welter (toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way) "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours"
• S: (v) wallow, welter (roll around) "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
• S: (v) welter (be immersed in) "welter in work"