| airdrome |
an airport or landing field. |
| airstrip |
an airfield or landing strip, usu. unpaved and without the personnel or equipment of an airport; runway. |
| Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
a Spanish explorer who, after landing on the cape of Florida in 1528 and being stranded in the Gulf coast region for 8 years, published an account of his survival and interaction with the native peoples under the title "La relación" (1542) (b.1490?--d.1557?). |
| amphibious |
of or pertaining to a military assault operation involving a landing from the sea. [1/3 definitions] |
| beachhead |
the initial position or area that invading troops try to secure when landing on an enemy shore. [1/2 definitions] |
| chassis |
the landing gear of an airplane. [1/4 definitions] |
| chip shot |
a short golf shot, used in approaching the green, in which the ball is lofted and rolls some distance after landing. |
| come down |
of an airplane or other aircraft, to crash or make an emergency landing. [1/9 definitions] |
| crash-land |
to make an emergency landing in an aircraft, usu. causing damage in the process. [1/2 definitions] |
| ditch |
a crash landing by an airplane on water. [2/7 definitions] |
| dock1 |
(often pl.) a general landing area for ships, equipped with waterways and landing facilities. [2/8 definitions] |
| ground loop |
a sharp, unexpected, and often uncontrolled turn of an aircraft moving on the ground, as during landing. |
| instrument landing |
a landing accomplished only by means of the instruments of an aircraft and signals from the ground, rather than by visual observation. |
| levee1 |
a boat landing on a river. [1/4 definitions] |
| LSM |
abbreviation of "landing ship medium." |
| LST |
abbreviation of "landing ship, tank," a seagoing military vessel designed during World War II to support amphibious operations, and used primarily to land troops, supplies, vehicles, and heavy equipment onto beaches. |
| Marine Corps |
a branch of the U.S. armed forces under the authority of the Department of the Navy, trained for land, sea, and aerial combat and specializing in amphibious landing operations. |
| newel |
a post that supports a handrail at the bottom or a landing of a stairway; newel post. [1/2 definitions] |
| pad1 |
a resilient flat platform for landing or launching. [1/12 definitions] |
| pancake |
of an airplane, to make an emergency landing by dropping vertically a short distance to the ground after leveling off above it. [1/4 definitions] |
| postlanding |
combined form of landing. |