Okay, to sum up: Dextrotropic, written, and alphanumeric don't actually belong on the list, but they are very close...as are Abbr. and Fourth as used by Falken.
Process, marriage, and delicate are not on the list, and I am very curious as to what rule Brinestone followed to come up with them.
Conjugated and Concoctified both belong on the list, bringing the list to: Jabberwocky Word English Affirmative Gallicism Noun Conjugated Concoctified
I could add "Erotic", just to be naughty. Terse also belongs on the list. There is another word that I could put on the list that is a dead giveaway, so I don't mention it, but you'll boo and hiss when I do.
I think that if I find Brinestone's rule interesting enough, I'll go ahead and lay out the rule for this list.
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Oh, duh! I know what it is!! Sheesh, I should have gotten it...Jabberwocky was the one that confused me. Didn't know it could be used that way.
My rule was really stretching. RREEEEAAAAALLLYYYY stretching.
I noticed that "Jabberwocky" is an English word first. The words come in groups of two nouns to an adjective, so I applied it. For every group of three, one is subject, one subject complement, and one modifying the subject complement. It doesn't really work for any of them (i.e. I didn't know whether English was an Affirmative Gallicism, but I guessed, because Affirmative can't be an English Gallicism--that's an oxymoron. By my rule, Marriage is a Conjugated Process (using conjugated to mean "joining together), Marriage is a delicate process. It really makes no sense to me now, but I wanted something to work.
Here's some to add to your list that I'm sure about now:
Unfortunatly, your still haven't quite got the rule. "Something" might just make it on the list, but "Black" does not. Just as "Abbr." and "Fourth" had the common quality only in the particular sense used, I could list them along with other terms so as to disqualify them from the list, i.e.:
Abbreviation Fourth Last Black Blue Underlined Bold Italic
Listed this way, none of them have the common quality of all the words on the list, therefore even when they do have that quality, 'tis not inherent.
I think that it would be fun to make a list that would be really hard to figure out, composed of words that are synonomous with words that belong on the list, but do not themselves belong on the list. Or maybe words that cannot even be circumstancially attached to the list.
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The words on the list can be plugged into the sentence "The word "_______" is [a] ______.
The word "Jabberwocky" is Jabberwocky. The word "Word" is a word. The word "English" is English. The word "Affirmative" is [an] affirmative. The word "Gallicism" is a gallicism. The word "Noun" is a Noun. The word "Conjugated" is conjugated. The word "Concoctified" is concoctified. The word "Erotic" is erotic. The word "Terse" is terse.