Term: speculator: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: iroquois league: a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: hymenogastrales: an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes; has a distinct basidiocarp with a fleshy or waxy gleba (sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: do-si-do: a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: stone crab: large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: felidae: cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: crackle: the sharp sound of snapping noises
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: industrialization: the development of industry on an extensive scale
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: lubber's hole: hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: familiarity: close or warm friendship
Broader: adventurer: a person who enjoys taking risks | Unrelated: dullness: the quality of lacking interestingness