WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rigamarole
    n 1: a set of confused and meaningless statements [syn:
         rigmarole, rigamarole]
    2: a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that
       academic rigmarole was a waste of time" [syn: rigmarole,
       rigamarole]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigamarole":
   absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
   bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk,
   drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol,
   fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish,
   gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon,
   mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense,
   palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish,
   skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash,
   trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling