| English | German |
| capital letter | Großbuchstabe (In some languages, a distinct, and usually larger, form of a letter. May be used in word-initial position in certain cases, or for emphasis) |
| capitalized letter | Großbuchstabe (In some languages, a distinct, and usually larger, form of a letter. May be used in word-initial position in certain cases, or for emphasis) |
| check letter | Scheckbegleitschreiben (A payment letter that accompanies a check and which lists the documents that are paid by the check. Used for French check format) |
| collection letter | Mahnschreiben (Correspondence sent to a debtor requesting payment for a past due account) |
| collection letter fee | Mahngebühr (A fee that is attached to a collection letter and charged to the delinquent debtor) |
| cover letter | Anschreiben (A letter that serves to introduce accompanying documents to the recipient. Often refers to a letter sent with a resume when applying for a job) |
| dead-letter queue | Warteschlange für unzustellbare Nachrichten (For Message Queuing, a queue that stores nontransactional messages that are undeliverable or expired. These queues store failed messages on the computer on which the message expired. Messages in these queues are written to disk and are therefore recoverable) |
| drive letter | Laufwerkbuchstabe (The naming convention for disk drives or partitions on most computers, consisting of an alphabetical letter followed by a colon) |
| form letter | Serienbrief (A standardized letter created for distribution to multiple recipients. Name, address, or other personal information may be inserted into the basic document manually or via a mail-merge program) |
| letter quality | Schönschrift (Pertaining to or being a level of print quality on dot-matrix printers that is better than draft quality. As the name implies, letter quality is supposed to be crisp and dark enough for use in business letters) |
| transactional dead-letter queue | Warteschlange für unzustellbare Transaktionsnachrichten (For Message Queuing, a queue that stores transactional messages that cannot reach their destination queue. Transactional dead-letter queues store failed messages on the computer on which the message expired. Messages in these queues are written to disk and are therefore recoverable) |
| uppercase letter | Großbuchstabe (In some languages, a distinct, and usually larger, form of a letter. May be used in word-initial position in certain cases, or for emphasis) |
