- action
- aerial combat
- affray
- altercation
- argument
- argumentation
- armored combat
- battle
- battle royal
- bicker
- bickering
- brawl
- broil
- brush
- bullfight
- cat-and-dog life
- clash
- clash of arms
- cockfight
- collide
- combat
- conflict
- contention
- contentiousness
- contest
- contestation
- controversy
- cut and thrust
- debate
- difference
- disagreement
- disputation
- dispute
- dogfight
- embroilment
- enmity
- exchange of blows
- feud
- fight
- fighting
- fire fight
- fracas
- fray
- ground combat
- hand-to-hand combat
- hand-to-hand fight
- hassle
- hostility
- house-to-house combat
- jostle
- joust
- Kilkenny cats
- litigation
- logomachy
- naval combat
- paper war
- passage of arms
- pitched battle
- polemic
- quarrel
- quarreling
- quarrelsomeness
- rumble
- running fight
- scramble
- scrapping
- scrimmage
- scuffle
- shoving match
- skirmish
- squabbling
- stand-up fight
- street fight
- strife
- struggle
- tauromachy
- tug-of-war
- tussle
- war
- warfare
- war of words
- words
- wrangling