bickering (n.)

• aggressiveness
• altercation
• apologetics
• apologia
• apology
• argument
• argumentation
• bellicosity
• belligerence
• belligerent
• bicker
• blinking
• casuistry
• chicane
• chicanery
• combat
• combativeness
• conflict
• contention
• contentiousness
• contest
• contestation
• controversy
• dancing
• debate
• defense
• disputation
• dispute
• dissension
• dissent
• dissidence
• dodging
• embroilment
• enmity
• equivocation
• eristic
• evasion
• faction
• fencing
• fighting
• flak
• flashing
• fluttering
• hairsplitting
• hassle
• hedging
• hostility
• hubbub
• irascibility
• irritability
• litigation
• litigiousness
• logomachy
• paltering
• partisan
• partisanship
• pettifoggery
• petty
• playing
• polemic
• polemics
• prevarication
• pugnacity
• quarrel
• quarrelsomeness
• quivering
• rhubarb
• row
• run-in
• set-to
• shifting
• shrewishness
• shuffling
• spat
• squabble
• strife
• struggle
• subterfuge
• tergiversation
• trifling
• war
• warfare
• wavering
• words
• wrangle
• wrangling