Mastermind

Noun

 * 1) A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to his or her peers.
 * 2) A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
 * 1) A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.

Verb

 * 1) To act in the role of mastermind.

Thesaurus
academician, ace, architect, authority, be responsible for, bookman, brains, call the signals, captain, carry on, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, command, conceive, conceiver, conduct, contriver, control, crackerjack, create, creator, design, develop, devise, direct, doctor, elder, elder statesman, engineer, first-rater, generate, genius, giant of learning, good hand, govern, great, great soul, guru, handle, head, head up, humanist, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, lead, lead on, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, lover of wisdom, magician, mahatma, make the rules, man of genius, man of intellect, man of learning, man of letters, man of wisdom, manage, mandarin, maneuver, manipulate, master, master hand, mentor, mind, mine of information, officer, oracle, order, organize, past master, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, plan, planner, polyhistor, polymath, practiced hand, prescribe, prodigy, pull the strings, pundit, quarterback, rabbi, regulate, rishi, run, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, seer, skilled hand, skipper, star, starets, student, superstar, take command, take the lead, think up, thinker, topnotcher, virtuoso, walking encyclopedia, whiz, wise man, wise old man, wizard, work out, work up

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Indonesian: dalang
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: rukovodilac, kolovođa,  planer

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Indonesian: mendalangi
 * Russian:, управлять

Anagrams

 * mindstream