All nightcap synonyms
night·cap
N n noun nightcap
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- drink — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- hot toddy — toddy (def 1).
- hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- digestif — a drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a meal to aid the digestion.
- sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
- bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.