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What long words have all bigrams either a postal state code or its reverse?

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Problem

What long words have all bigrams either a postal state code or its reverse?
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10 paramarine
10 indentment
10 cacocnemia
9 amendment
9 paramimia
9 paramenia
9 paralinin
9 paralalia
9 palilalia
9 palapalai
8 scalawag
8 memorial

Disallowing reversals of state codes the longest common ones are:

8 malarial
7 malaria
6 scalar
6 marine
5 flaky

Terry Donahue