Term: facer: (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: axiom: (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: cahita: a member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: stratification: forming or depositing in layers
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: folding saw: a saw with a toothed blade that folds into a handle (the way a pocketknife folds)
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: immunotherapy: therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: blind spot: a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: growing pains: problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: perplexity: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: unattainableness: the state of being unattainable
Broader: difficulty: a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result | Unrelated: golden wattle: shrubby Australian tree having clusters of fragrant golden yellow flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental