tonics
Old-timey medicine bottles
Tonics are substances believed to restore or invigorate health and vitality.
The word often appears in compounds: a gin and tonic is a cocktail, tonic water is carbonated water with quinine.
In music, the tonic is the first note of a scale, the home base to which melodies resolve.
Hair tonics were once popular grooming products promising to strengthen or stimulate hair growth.
The adjective tonic describes something that produces or restores physical, mental, or moral vigor.
Antimalarial alkaloid from bark
- cocktailsAlcoholic blended beverages
- mixerCombines ingredients or people
- bittersBotanical cocktail flavoring
- highballSpirit lengthened with mixer
bartender · carbonation · lime · garnish · splash · pour · fizz · club soda
Mythical healing draught
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- cureTreatment that heals
- tinctureHerb steeped in alcohol
- potionEnchanted liquid mixture
apothecary · herbalism · botanicals · supplement · vitamin · mineral · naturopathy · homeopathy
Restoring vigor or vitality
- rejuvenationRestoration of youthful vigor
- refreshmentLight food or drink
- restorationReturning something to condition
- renewalMaking current again
fortification · vigor · vitality · boost · pick-me-up · pep · zest · briskness
Central theme or speech
- rootUnderground absorbing structure
- scaleMeasure of relative size
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- chordNotes sounded simultaneously
key signature · resolution · dominant · subdominant · home key · solfège · do · pitch
quinine
Antimalarial alkaloid from bark
- cocktailsAlcoholic blended beverages
- mixerCombines ingredients or people
- bittersBotanical cocktail flavoring
highball · bartender · carbonation · lime · garnish · splash · pour · fizz · club soda · barware
elixir
Mythical healing draught
potion · apothecary · herbalism · botanicals · supplement · vitamin · mineral · naturopathy · homeopathy · pharmacopeia
revitalization
Restoring vigor or vitality
- rejuvenationRestoration of youthful vigor
- refreshmentLight food or drink
- restorationReturning something to condition
renewal · fortification · vigor · vitality · boost · pick-me-up · pep · zest · briskness · liveliness
keynote
Central theme or speech
chord · key signature · resolution · dominant · subdominant · home key · solfège · do · pitch · modulation
- old medicinebloodletting, leeches, leech therapy, leeching, cupping
- beverageswater, coffee, tea, juice, milk
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- general storecounter, cash register, ledger, cracker barrel, checkerboard
- healing practicesacupressure, holistic healing, Ayurveda, self-healing, chiropractic
- home remedieshoney, lemon, ginger, garlic, turmeric
tonicspoisons
Harmful ingested substances
toxins · depressants · sedatives · weakeners · venoms
- gin and tonicJuniper spirit with tonic water
- tonic waterCarbonated quinine drink
- vodka tonicSpirit mixed with quinine soda
- health tonicDrink claiming restorative benefits
- hair tonicGrooming liquid for scalp
- herbal tonicPlant-based restorative beverage
tonic, tonic-clonic, catatonic, isotonic, hypotonic, hypertonic, tonicity, tonic water