quicksand (n.)
- bind
- bog
- bottom
- bottomland
- bottoms
- cardhouse
- clutch
- complication
- crisis
- crunch
- danger
- embarrassment
- emergency
- endangerment
- fen
- fenland
- glade
- hazard
- hobble
- holm
- how-do-you-do
- imbroglio
- jam
- jeopardy
- marsh
- marshland
- meadow
- menace
- mere
- mess
- mire
- mix
- moor
- moorland
- morass
- moss
- mud
- pass
- peril
- pickle
- pinch
- pitfall
- plight
- predicament
- quagmire
- risk
- rocks
- sandbank
- sandbar
- sands
- scrape
- slough
- spot
- squeeze
- stew
- strait
- straits
- sump
- swale
- swamp
- swampland
- threat
- tightrope
- undercurrent
- undertow
- wallow
- wash