-iac

of or connected with

Usage

  • hypochondriac

    A hypochondriac is a person who worries excessively about their health and thinks that an illness is present or about to occur when there is really nothing wrong.

  • amnesiac

    suffering from a partial loss of memory

  • aphrodisiac

    exciting sexual desire

  • cardiac

    of or relating to the heart

  • demoniac

    frenzied as if possessed by a demon

  • dipsomaniac

    a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

  • egomaniac

    an abnormally egotistical person

  • elegiac

    resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

  • hemophiliac

    someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding

  • insomniac

    experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness

  • kleptomaniac

    someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive

  • maniac

    wildly disordered

  • megalomaniac

    a pathological egotist

  • necrophiliac

    excessive fascination with death or corpses

  • nymphomaniac

    (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire

  • paranoiac

    a person afflicted with paranoia

  • pyromaniac

    a person with a mania for setting things on fire

  • zodiac

    a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic

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