Term: fly in the ointment: an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: founder: a worker who makes metal castings
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: moss: tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: nongovernmental organization: an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: lorchel: a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: geococcyx: roadrunners
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: totara: valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: aptness: appropriateness for the occasion
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: garden spade: a spade used by gardeners
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: sidereal year: the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars
Broader: troublesomeness: a difficulty that causes anxiety | Unrelated: arteriolosclerosis: sclerosis of the arterioles