predicament (n.)

• adversity
• affliction
• aggravation
• annoyance
• baffle
• bafflement
• bewilderment
• bind
• blight
• blood
• bother
• box
• bracket
• branch
• bummer
• cardhouse
• care
• case
• caste
• category
• circumstance
• clan
• class
• clutch
• complication
• condition
• confusion
• corner
• crisis
• cross
• crunch
• curse
• danger
• difficulty
• dilemma
• discomposure
• disconcertion
• disconcertment
• disturbance
• division
• downer
• embarrassment
• emergency
• endangerment
• enigma
• estate
• exigency
• fix
• footing
• grade
• group
• grouping
• hardship
• hazard
• head
• heading
• hobble
• hole
• hot
• how-do-you-do
• imbroglio
• immediacy
• impasse
• imperative
• imperativeness
• irritation
• jam
• jeopardy
• kin
• label
• level
• location
• lot
• menace
• mess
• mix
• modality
• mode
• morass
• mystery
• order
• pass
• peril
• perplexity
• perturbation
• pickle
• pigeonhole
• pinch
• place
• plight
• position
• posture
• pother
• pressure
• problem
• puzzle
• puzzlement
• quagmire
• quandary
• quicksand
• race
• rank
• rating
• riddle
• rigor
• risk
• rubric
• scrape
• section
• sept
• set
• situation
• slough
• spot
• squeeze
• standing
• state
• station
• status
• stew
• strain
• strait
• straits
• stratum
• stress
• subdivision
• subgroup
• suborder
• swamp
• threat
• tightrope
• title
• trial
• tribulation
• trouble
• upset
• urgency
• vicissitude