| Block printing | Printing using a solid block of type; mostly used for illustrations |
| Caxton, William | First printer in England (Westminster, 1476); editor of the Canterbury Tales |
| Chancery English | The standard administrative dialect after c. 1430 when English became the language of administration |
| Grammatical gender | The assignment of linguistic gender on grammatical grounds only, with disregard for whether a noun refers to a man, woman, or thing: das Mädchen, der Auftrag; þæt wīf, se wīsdom |
| Gutenberg, Johannes | Western inventor of movable type (c. 1440). |
| Inflectional levelling | A tendency for inflectional morphemes to converge towards a single form, so that they become formally indistinguishable. In Middle English, vowels in many inflectional suffixes converged towards a front or central mid-close vowel (i.e. /e/ or /ə/) which was then often lost altogether, along with any following consonant. |
| Movable type | A printing technique whereby each grapheme (letter or ligature) is represented by a separate piece of type; a page of type is formed by combining these pieces into a block. |
| Natural gender | The assignment of linguistic gender according to the gender identity of the referent: masculine for men, feminine for women, neuter for inanimate concepts and sometimes animals |