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Showing words for ALCHEMY using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Alchemy

alchemy

6 Letter Words for Alchemy

alchem, hyemal, leachy

5 Letter Words for Alchemy

almeh, calmy, camel, chela, chyle, chyme, clame, claye, cleam, hamel, hayle, hemal, lacey, lache, leach, lehay, lycae, lycea, mache, macle, meach, mealy, melch, yealm

4 Letter Words for Alchemy

ache, achy, acle, acme, acyl, ahem, ahey, alce, alec, alem, alme, amel, amyl, ayme, calm, came, chal, cham, chay, chem, clam, clay, clem, cyma, cyme, each, elmy, eyah, haec, hale, halm, hame, haye, heal, hela, helm, heml, hyla, hyle, lace, lacy, lame, leam, lech, lyam, lych, lyme, mace, mach, male, meal, mech, mela, myal, myel, yale, yeah, yech, yelm, ylem, ymca

3 Letter Words for Alchemy

ace, ach, acy, alc, ale, aly, ame, amy, aye, cal, cam, cay, cel, cha, che, chm, cly, cml, cyl, eam, ech, ecm, ela, elm, eyl, hae, ham, hay, hcl, hel, hem, hey, hye, lac, lah, lam, lay, lca, lcm, lea, lem, ley, lyc, lye, lym, mac, mae, mal, may, mea, meh, mel, mya, myc, yah, yam, yea, yeh

Definitions for Alchemy

[1] a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
[2] any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
[3] any seemingly magical process of transforming or combining elements into something new: Through some kind of alchemy he has reinvented himself as a writer.
[4] the pseudoscientific predecessor of chemistry that sought a method of transmuting base metals into gold, an elixir to prolong life indefinitely, a panacea or universal remedy, and an alkahest or universal solvent
[5] a power like that of alchemy her beauty had a potent alchemy

Words related to Alchemy

witchcraft, wizardry, sorcery, magic, thaumaturgy

Words nearby Alchemy

alcestis, alchem., alchemist, alchemist, the, alchemize, alchemy, alcheringa, alchevsk, alchuine, alcibiades, alcid

Origin of Alchemy

1325–1375; earlier alchimie < Old French alquemie < Medieval Latin alchymia < Arabic al the + kīmiyā' < Greek kēmeía transmutation; replacing Middle English alconomye, equivalent to alk(imie ) + (astr)onomye astronomy

Other words from Alchemy

al·chem·ic [al-kem -ik] /ælˈkɛm ɪk/ , al·chem·i·cal , al·che·mis·tic [al-kuh -mis -tik] /ˌæl kəˈmɪs tɪk/ , al·che·mis·ti·cal , adjective
al·chem·i·cal·ly , adverb

Word origin for Alchemy

C14 alkamye, via Old French from Medieval Latin alchimia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al the + kīmiyā' transmutation, from Late Greek khēmeia the art of transmutation

Synonyms for Alchemy

witchcraft, wizardry, magic, sorcery, thaumaturgy, black arts, black magic, hermetics, pseudo science