Calmness Before The Storm
Jeff Barrett
Each of the 13 words has a sequence of 3 letters which are adjacent in the alphabet (e.g. abc, bcd, cde) or a backwards version of such a sequence (e.g. cba, dcb, edc). If you take the letter after the forward triplets and the letter before the reverse triplets you'll get:
paralYZATion EPONymous peaNUTS lauGHINing eRSTWhile hydroXYZIne unrecogniZABLe enguLFED arCDEGree DEFLated nunAVUT impriSONMent fauSTUSor TENN WILL GLASS
which clues the answer: MENAGERIE