catena

a series of things linked together a catena of lies that ultimately proved to be her undoing Synonyms chain, catenation, concatenation, consecution, nexus, progression, sequence, string, trainRelated Words chain reaction; belt, circle, cycle, vicious circle (also vicious cycle); continuum, gamut, gauntlet (also gantlet), scale, spectrum; flow, river, stream; file, line, queue, range, row, succession