bickering
boggling
captiousness
caviling
chicane
chicanery
dodging
equivocation
evasion
hairsplitting
hedging
logic-chopping
nit-picking
paltering
parrying
pettifoggery
prevarication
pussyfooting
quibbling
shifting
shuffle
shuffling
sidestepping
subterfuge
suppressio veri
swordplay
tergiversation
trichoschistism
weasel words
fence
building material
combat
fight
fighting
play
scrap
commencing
condensing
dispensing
expensing
lensing
sensing