Synonyms and related words :
accident, adventure, ante, ante up, assume, attempt, back, bechance, befall, bet, bet on, betide, bingo, block, blockade, book, bottleneck, brave, breakers ahead, calculated risk, call, card games, cardhouse, casualty, catch, cause for alarm, chance, chance hit, chance it, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, chunk, come, come along, compromise, contingency, contingent, cordon, court destruction, cover, crack-loo, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crisis, curtain, danger, dangerous ground, dare, defy danger, desultoriness, determent, deterrent, difficulty, drawback, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, face up to, fade, fan-tan, flier, fluke, forget the odds, fortuity, fortune, freak accident, gamble, gamble on, gamble with, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, handbook, hang-up, hap, happen, happen along, happen by chance, happening, happenstance, hitch, horse racing, house of cards, hurdle, imperil, imperilment, incur danger, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, joker, keno, lay, lay a wager, lay down, lay open, long odds, long shot, lotto, luck, lucky shot, make a bet, make bold, make free, meet a bet, menace, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, parlay, pass, peril, perilousness, pinball, pinch, pitch and toss, play, play against, play with fire, plight, plunge, policy, pop up, precariousness, predicament, presume, pretend, punt, put in danger, put in jeopardy, quicksand, rely on fortune, risk, riskiness, rocks ahead, rouge et noir, roulette, rub, run a chance, run the chance, run the risk, see, set at hazard, shakiness, shell game, shiftiness, shiftingness, shot, slipperiness, snag, speculation, speculativeness, stake, stand pat, storm clouds, strait, stumbling block, stumbling stone, sweepstake, sweepstakes, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, take the liberty, tempt Providence, tempt fortune, the numbers, the numbers game, thin ice, threat, threaten, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, trente-et-quarante, trust to chance, try the chance, turn up, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, venture, wager