FATHER:

   Father, male parent, paterfamilias, pater, dad, daddy, papa,
   pop, old man, gaffer, governor, pere, sire

   ancestor, forefather, forebear, progenitor, predecessor

   God, the Deity, the maker of Heaven and Earth, the first person
   of the Trinity, priest, abbe, cure, padre, pastor, parson,
   shepherd, clergyman, anba

   procreator, begetter, maker, creator, author, originator,
   generator, initiator, prime mover, founder, architect, inventor,
   framer, designer

   patriarch, elder, leader, provider, protector, patron,
   precursor, forerunner, prototype, model, exemplar

   Provide for, support, care for, take care of, take charge of,
   look after, take the responsibility of, act as a father, to,
   adopt

   originate, be the author of, make, produce, fashion, fabricate,
   frame, imagine, conceive, hatch, dream up,

   beget, sire, procreate, generate, engender, get, breed,
   propagate, reproduce, bring into being, bring to life, give life
   to, call into existence, came to exist.

   From Synonym Finder, Rodale