-iac

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