altercation (n.)

• argument
• bicker
• bickering
• brawl
• broil
• combat
• conflict
• contention
• contentiousness
• contest
• contestation
• controversy
• debate
• disputation
• dispute
• embroilment
• enmity
• feud
• fight
• fighting
• fracas
• fuss
• hostility
• imbroglio
• litigation
• logomachy
• polemic
• quarrel
• quarrelsomeness
• snarl
• spat
• squabble
• strife
• struggle
• tiff
• tussle
• vendetta
• war
• warfare
• words
• wrangle
• wrangling