principal

doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager., bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum., workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout., maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright., machinist, mechanician, engineer., sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer., minister (instrument); servant; representative (commissioner), (deputy) [more]., coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae; personnel.

base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan [U.S.]; foundation (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge., bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard.

director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller., superintendent, supervisor., intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy., guiding star (guidance); adviser; guide (information); pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate; wire-puller., driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster; whipper in., head, head man, head center; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman; captain (master); superior; mayor (civil authority); vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch., officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority., statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger; Minos, Draco; arbiter (judge); boss [U.S.], political dictator., board (council)., secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.

master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader (director); boss, cockarouse, sagamore, werowance., lord of the ascendant; cock of the walk, cock of the roost; gray mare; mistress., potentate; liege, liege lord; suzerain, sovereign, monarch, autocrat, despot, tyrant, oligarch., crowned head, emperor, king, anointed king, majesty, imperator, protector, president, stadholder, judge., caesar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan, grand Turk, caliph, imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon, mikado, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique, czarowitz, grand seignior., prince, duke (nobility); archduke, doge, elector; seignior; marland, margrave; rajah, emir, nizam, nawab., empress, queen, sultana, czarina, princess, infanta, duchess, margravine; czarevna, czarita; maharani, rani, rectrix., regent, viceroy, exarch, palatine, khedive, hospodar, beglerbeg, three-tailed bashaw, pasha, bashaw, bey, beg, dey, scherif, tetrarch, satrap, mandarin, subahdar, nabob, maharajah; burgrave; laird (proprietor); collector, commissioner, deputy commissioner, woon., the authorities, the powers that be, the government; staff, etat major, aga, official, man in office, person in authority; sircar, sirkar, Sublime Porte., [Military authorities] marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon., [Civil authorities] mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon, provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor, seneschal, alderman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer (executive); dewan, fonctionnaire., [Naval authorities] admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral, port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, skipper, mate, master; navarch.