hazard

1. A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. (countable, uncountable)
2. Chance; accident, unpredictability. (countable, uncountable)
3. The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome. (uncountable) · He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
4. A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; (later also) a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty. (countable) · The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
5. Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court. (countable, uncountable)
6. A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). (countable, uncountable)
7. Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle. (countable, uncountable)
8. A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results. (countable, uncountable)

Plural hazards