quag·mire 
(kwăgmīr′, kwŏg-)
(kwăgmīr′, kwŏg-)n.
1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
- contemner
- contemplate
- contemplation
- contemplative
- contemplatively
- contemplativeness
- contemplator
- contemporaneity
- contemporaneous
- contemporaneously
- contemporaneousness
- contemporarily
- contemporary
- contemporization
- contemporize
- contempt
- contemptibility
- contemptible
- contemptibleness
- contemptibly
- contemptuous
- contemptuously
- contemptuousness
- contend
- contender