^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^