- altercation
- argument
- bicker
- bickering
- blood feud
- brawl
- broil
- cat-and-dog life
- clash
- combat
- comment
- conflict
- contention
- contentiousness
- contest
- contestation
- controversy
- conversation
- cut and thrust
- debate
- discourse
- disputation
- dispute
- donnybrook
- donnybrook fair
- elocution
- embroilment
- enmity
- feud
- fight
- fighting
- fliting
- fracas
- fuss
- hassle
- hostility
- hubbub
- imbroglio
- Kilkenny cats
- language
- litigation
- logomachy
- open quarrel
- oral communication
- palaver
- paper war
- parole
- passage of arms
- polemic
- prattle
- quarrel
- quarreling
- quarrelsomeness
- rapping
- rhubarb
- riot
- row
- scramble
- scrapping
- sharp words
- slanging match
- snarl
- spar
- spat
- speaking
- speech
- squabble
- squabbling
- strife
- struggle
- talk
- talking
- tiff
- tussle
- vendetta
- war
- warfare
- war of words
- words
- wrangle
- wrangling