mastermind (n.)
- academician
- ace
- architect
- authority
- bookman
- captain
- classicist
- clerk
- command
- conceiver
- conduct
- contriver
- control
- crackerjack
- creator
- design
- devise
- doctor
- elder
- engineer
- first-rater
- generate
- genius
- great
- guru
- handle
- head
- humanist
- intellect
- intellectual
- lead
- litterateur
- magician
- mahatma
- mandarin
- maneuver
- master
- mentor
- mind
- officer
- oracle
- order
- philologist
- philologue
- philomath
- philosopher
- plan
- planner
- polymath
- prodigy
- pundit
- quarterback
- rabbi
- run
- sage
- savant
- scholar
- scholastic
- schoolman
- seer
- skipper
- star
- starets
- student
- superstar
- thinker
- virtuoso
- whiz
- wizard