ruction

noun

1. A noisy quarrel or fight.

   “If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.”

   “She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to.”

   “Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans”

   “While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.”

   “Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad's driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions.”