That was hard to get a grip on, I 'read' it through once without getting any clues at all (other than what sort of things it wasn't). A bit of luck with a couple of my 'probe' words got the general theme and then it was the first thing I thought of with the right letter count.
I solved today's Redactle (#63) in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 91.67%. Played at www.redactle.com/