diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9ccad2686..2a3c50fa6f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ Starting with 16.1.0, we will no longer be publishing new releases on Bower. You
 * Fix bug in QtWebKit when wrapping synthetic events in proxies. ([@walrusfruitcake](https://github.com/walrusfruitcake) in [#10115](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10011))
 * Prevent event handlers from receiving extra argument in development. ([@aweary](https://github.com/aweary) in [#10115](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/8363))
 * Fix cases where `onChange` would not fire with `defaultChecked` on radio inputs. ([@jquense](https://github.com/jquense) in [#10156](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10156))
-* Add support for `controlList` attribute to DOM property whitelist ([@nhunzaker](https://github.com/nhunzaker) in [#9940](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/9940))
+* Add support for `controlList` attribute to allowed DOM properties ([@nhunzaker](https://github.com/nhunzaker) in [#9940](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/9940))
 * Fix a bug where creating an element with a ref in a constructor did not throw an error in development. ([@iansu](https://github.com/iansu) in [#10025](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10025))
 
 ## 15.6.1 (June 14, 2017)
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/console.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/console.js
index 00358b057d..9a29d5cb05 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/console.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/console.js
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ const consoleSettingsRef = {
   breakOnConsoleErrors: false,
 };
 
-// Patches whitelisted console methods to append component stack for the current fiber.
+// Patches console methods to append component stack for the current fiber.
 // Call unpatch() to remove the injected behavior.
 export function patch({
   appendComponentStack,
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ export function patch({
   });
 }
 
-// Removed component stack patch from whitelisted console methods.
+// Removed component stack patch from console methods.
 export function unpatch(): void {
   if (unpatchFn !== null) {
     unpatchFn();
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/legacy/renderer.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/legacy/renderer.js
index d68ee86c62..6a20ec7e9b 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/legacy/renderer.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/legacy/renderer.js
@@ -586,10 +586,10 @@ export function attach(
     });
   }
 
-  function createIsPathWhitelisted(key: string) {
+  function createisPathAllowed(key: string) {
     // This function helps prevent previously-inspected paths from being dehydrated in updates.
     // This is important to avoid a bad user experience where expanded toggles collapse on update.
-    return function isPathWhitelisted(path: Array<string | number>): boolean {
+    return function isPathAllowed(path: Array<string | number>): boolean {
       let current = currentlyInspectedPaths[key];
       if (!current) {
         return false;
@@ -706,15 +706,15 @@ export function attach(
 
     inspectedElement.context = cleanForBridge(
       inspectedElement.context,
-      createIsPathWhitelisted('context'),
+      createisPathAllowed('context'),
     );
     inspectedElement.props = cleanForBridge(
       inspectedElement.props,
-      createIsPathWhitelisted('props'),
+      createisPathAllowed('props'),
     );
     inspectedElement.state = cleanForBridge(
       inspectedElement.state,
-      createIsPathWhitelisted('state'),
+      createisPathAllowed('state'),
     );
 
     return {
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/renderer.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/renderer.js
index 569b600ba0..1018033736 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/renderer.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/renderer.js
@@ -2380,13 +2380,13 @@ export function attach(
     });
   }
 
-  function createIsPathWhitelisted(
+  function createisPathAllowed(
     key: string | null,
     secondaryCategory: 'hooks' | null,
   ) {
     // This function helps prevent previously-inspected paths from being dehydrated in updates.
     // This is important to avoid a bad user experience where expanded toggles collapse on update.
-    return function isPathWhitelisted(path: Array<string | number>): boolean {
+    return function isPathAllowed(path: Array<string | number>): boolean {
       switch (secondaryCategory) {
         case 'hooks':
           if (path.length === 1) {
@@ -2528,7 +2528,7 @@ export function attach(
               ((mostRecentlyInspectedElement: any): InspectedElement),
               path,
             ),
-            createIsPathWhitelisted(null, secondaryCategory),
+            createisPathAllowed(null, secondaryCategory),
             path,
           ),
         };
@@ -2573,19 +2573,19 @@ export function attach(
       const cleanedInspectedElement = {...mostRecentlyInspectedElement};
       cleanedInspectedElement.context = cleanForBridge(
         cleanedInspectedElement.context,
-        createIsPathWhitelisted('context', null),
+        createisPathAllowed('context', null),
       );
       cleanedInspectedElement.hooks = cleanForBridge(
         cleanedInspectedElement.hooks,
-        createIsPathWhitelisted('hooks', 'hooks'),
+        createisPathAllowed('hooks', 'hooks'),
       );
       cleanedInspectedElement.props = cleanForBridge(
         cleanedInspectedElement.props,
-        createIsPathWhitelisted('props', null),
+        createisPathAllowed('props', null),
       );
       cleanedInspectedElement.state = cleanForBridge(
         cleanedInspectedElement.state,
-        createIsPathWhitelisted('state', null),
+        createisPathAllowed('state', null),
       );
 
       return {
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
index 6f96f9864f..debe0db38a 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/backend/utils.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import type {DehydratedData} from 'react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Comp
 
 export function cleanForBridge(
   data: Object | null,
-  isPathWhitelisted: (path: Array<string | number>) => boolean,
+  isPathAllowed: (path: Array<string | number>) => boolean,
   path?: Array<string | number> = [],
 ): DehydratedData | null {
   if (data !== null) {
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export function cleanForBridge(
       cleanedPaths,
       unserializablePaths,
       path,
-      isPathWhitelisted,
+      isPathAllowed,
     );
 
     return {
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Components/NativeStyleEditor/StyleEditor.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Components/NativeStyleEditor/StyleEditor.js
index 31f55da245..ae28dbde84 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Components/NativeStyleEditor/StyleEditor.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/devtools/views/Components/NativeStyleEditor/StyleEditor.js
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ function Row({
   // The list of valid attributes would need to be injected by RN backend,
   // which would need to require them from ReactNativeViewViewConfig "validAttributes.style" keys.
   // This would need to degrade gracefully for react-native-web,
-  // althoguh we could let it also inject a custom set of whitelisted attributes.
+  // although we could let it also inject a custom set of allowed attributes.
 
   const [localAttribute, setLocalAttribute] = useState(attribute);
   const [localValue, setLocalValue] = useState(JSON.stringify(value));
diff --git a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/hydration.js b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/hydration.js
index c134f7797d..f46048f75e 100644
--- a/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/hydration.js
+++ b/packages/react-devtools-shared/src/hydration.js
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export function dehydrate(
   cleaned: Array<Array<string | number>>,
   unserializable: Array<Array<string | number>>,
   path: Array<string | number>,
-  isPathWhitelisted: (path: Array<string | number>) => boolean,
+  isPathAllowed: (path: Array<string | number>) => boolean,
   level?: number = 0,
 ):
   | string
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export function dehydrate(
   | {[key: string]: string | Dehydrated | Unserializable, ...} {
   const type = getDataType(data);
 
-  let isPathWhitelistedCheck;
+  let isPathAllowedCheck;
 
   switch (type) {
     case 'html_element':
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ export function dehydrate(
       };
 
     case 'array':
-      isPathWhitelistedCheck = isPathWhitelisted(path);
-      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathWhitelistedCheck) {
+      isPathAllowedCheck = isPathAllowed(path);
+      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathAllowedCheck) {
         return createDehydrated(type, true, data, cleaned, path);
       }
       return data.map((item, i) =>
@@ -214,15 +214,15 @@ export function dehydrate(
           cleaned,
           unserializable,
           path.concat([i]),
-          isPathWhitelisted,
-          isPathWhitelistedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
+          isPathAllowed,
+          isPathAllowedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
         ),
       );
 
     case 'typed_array':
     case 'iterator':
-      isPathWhitelistedCheck = isPathWhitelisted(path);
-      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathWhitelistedCheck) {
+      isPathAllowedCheck = isPathAllowed(path);
+      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathAllowedCheck) {
         return createDehydrated(type, true, data, cleaned, path);
       } else {
         const unserializableValue: Unserializable = {
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ export function dehydrate(
                 cleaned,
                 unserializable,
                 path.concat([i]),
-                isPathWhitelisted,
-                isPathWhitelistedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
+                isPathAllowed,
+                isPathAllowedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
               )),
           );
         }
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ export function dehydrate(
       };
 
     case 'object':
-      isPathWhitelistedCheck = isPathWhitelisted(path);
-      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathWhitelistedCheck) {
+      isPathAllowedCheck = isPathAllowed(path);
+      if (level >= LEVEL_THRESHOLD && !isPathAllowedCheck) {
         return createDehydrated(type, true, data, cleaned, path);
       } else {
         const object = {};
@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ export function dehydrate(
             cleaned,
             unserializable,
             path.concat([name]),
-            isPathWhitelisted,
-            isPathWhitelistedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
+            isPathAllowed,
+            isPathAllowedCheck ? 1 : level + 1,
           );
         }
         return object;
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMComponent-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMComponent-test.js
index ac966b5aca..bcf7bde39c 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMComponent-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMComponent-test.js
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMComponent', () => {
       expect(nodeValueSetter).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
     });
 
-    it('should ignore attribute whitelist for elements with the "is" attribute', () => {
+    it('should ignore attribute list for elements with the "is" attribute', () => {
       const container = document.createElement('div');
       ReactDOM.render(<button is="test" cowabunga="chevynova" />, container);
       expect(container.firstChild.hasAttribute('cowabunga')).toBe(true);
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js b/packages/react-dom/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js
index d7a478a37b..9588729691 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/client/ReactDOMComponent.js
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ export function diffProperties(
       }
     } else {
       // For all other deleted properties we add it to the queue. We use
-      // the whitelist in the commit phase instead.
+      // the allowed property list in the commit phase instead.
       (updatePayload = updatePayload || []).push(propKey, null);
     }
   }
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ export function diffProperties(
       nextProp.toString();
     } else {
       // For any other property we always add it to the queue and then we
-      // filter it out using the whitelist during the commit.
+      // filter it out using the allowed property list during the commit.
       (updatePayload = updatePayload || []).push(propKey, nextProp);
     }
   }
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ export function diffHydratedProperties(
     for (let i = 0; i < attributes.length; i++) {
       const name = attributes[i].name.toLowerCase();
       switch (name) {
-        // Built-in SSR attribute is whitelisted
+        // Built-in SSR attribute is allowed
         case 'data-reactroot':
           break;
         // Controlled attributes are not validated
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/events/DOMTopLevelEventTypes.js b/packages/react-dom/src/events/DOMTopLevelEventTypes.js
index 274705c32d..3eddfb02ca 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/events/DOMTopLevelEventTypes.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/events/DOMTopLevelEventTypes.js
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export const TOP_BEFORE_BLUR = unsafeCastStringToDOMTopLevelType('beforeblur');
 
 // List of events that need to be individually attached to media elements.
 // Note that events in this list will *not* be listened to at the top level
-// unless they're explicitly whitelisted in `ReactBrowserEventEmitter.listenTo`.
+// unless they're explicitly listed in `ReactBrowserEventEmitter.listenTo`.
 export const mediaEventTypes = [
   TOP_ABORT,
   TOP_CAN_PLAY,
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/DOMProperty.js b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/DOMProperty.js
index abf90cfa9e..b763861e0e 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/DOMProperty.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/DOMProperty.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type PropertyType = 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6;
 export const RESERVED = 0;
 
 // A simple string attribute.
-// Attributes that aren't in the whitelist are presumed to have this type.
+// Attributes that aren't in the filter are presumed to have this type.
 export const STRING = 1;
 
 // A string attribute that accepts booleans in React. In HTML, these are called
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ const capitalize = token => token[1].toUpperCase();
 
 // This is a list of all SVG attributes that need special casing, namespacing,
 // or boolean value assignment. Regular attributes that just accept strings
-// and have the same names are omitted, just like in the HTML whitelist.
+// and have the same names are omitted, just like in the HTML attribute filter.
 // Some of these attributes can be hard to find. This list was created by
 // scraping the MDN documentation.
 [
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/isCustomComponent.js b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/isCustomComponent.js
index b1eec56e47..aa6b2903c0 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/isCustomComponent.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/isCustomComponent.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function isCustomComponent(tagName: string, props: Object) {
   }
   switch (tagName) {
     // These are reserved SVG and MathML elements.
-    // We don't mind this whitelist too much because we expect it to never grow.
+    // We don't mind this list too much because we expect it to never grow.
     // The alternative is to track the namespace in a few places which is convoluted.
     // https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/#custom-elements-core-concepts
     case 'annotation-xml':
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/omittedCloseTags.js b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/omittedCloseTags.js
index 16033f9367..281b4344f8 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/omittedCloseTags.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/omittedCloseTags.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-// For HTML, certain tags should omit their close tag. We keep a whitelist for
+// For HTML, certain tags should omit their close tag. We keep a list for
 // those special-case tags.
 
 const omittedCloseTags = {
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/possibleStandardNames.js b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/possibleStandardNames.js
index 516e20b0f6..043519ae0b 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/shared/possibleStandardNames.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/shared/possibleStandardNames.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-// When adding attributes to the HTML or SVG whitelist, be sure to
+// When adding attributes to the HTML or SVG allowed attribute list, be sure to
 // also add them to this module to ensure casing and incorrect name
 // warnings.
 const possibleStandardNames = {
diff --git a/packages/scheduler/src/__tests__/SchedulerUMDBundle-test.internal.js b/packages/scheduler/src/__tests__/SchedulerUMDBundle-test.internal.js
index 001cd8f82e..219bbc69be 100644
--- a/packages/scheduler/src/__tests__/SchedulerUMDBundle-test.internal.js
+++ b/packages/scheduler/src/__tests__/SchedulerUMDBundle-test.internal.js
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ describe('Scheduling UMD bundle', () => {
   });
 
   function filterPrivateKeys(name) {
-    // Be very careful adding things to this whitelist!
+    // Be very careful adding things to this filter!
     // It's easy to introduce bugs by doing it:
     // https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14904
     switch (name) {