thanks baldric, but still not convinced its emmental even with an "h", as its spelt without the h when you google it-are there any other hard chheeses with 9 letters?
There are others with 9 letters - Berkswell, Coverdale, Idiazabal, Leicester and Swaledale would all be valid answers (all bar one in the UK). I'd say the most likely answer is Leicester simply because it is more likely to be readily available than the others.