• babel, chaos, clutter, cock-up, commotion, confusion, derangement, disarray, disorder, flap, fuckup, hubbub, huddle, hugger-mugger, melee, mix, mix-up, muddle, mull, muss, pandemonium, panic, screw-up, shambles, skein, stew, storm, to-do, topsy-turvy, topsy-turvydom, turbulence, turmoil, upturn, welter
• anarchic, anarchical, chaotic, deranged, mazy
• colander, cullender, filter, screen, sieve, sifter, strainer
• to by-pass, to filter out, to strain off
• to clarify, to distil, to distill, to pour off, to sieve, to strain off
• screening, settling, straining
• to filter, to percolate, to strain
• decantation, decanting, defecation