Definitions for alchemy

• Definition
• Anagrams (187)

alchemy al·che·my

Spelling: [al-kuh-mee]

IPA: /ˈæl kə mi/

Alchemy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in alchemy (acehlmy).

Definitions for alchemy

noun

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:

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

Examples for alchemy

"It is not an alchemy in which myself I dabble," he said slowly.

There was always something fascinating to me in the old books of alchemy.

"Look in your mirror for the alchemy needed there," he bade her.

He waged war against astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, and like impostures.

The myth is to religion what alchemy is to chemistry or astrology is to astronomy.

He is also a successful author whose 2005 debut The alchemy of Desire was published to wide acclaim.

What will be the alchemy of Cowell, Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi, and Ellen DeGeneres this season?

Sarah Norris on the alchemy of being young and literary and finding your way in New York.

There is a sort of alchemy of the masala in some ways, and that journey is parallel to the emotional journey he takes.

Take Larry David, who recently walked into alchemy restaurant in Edgartown following those rules closely.