soft-land
verb
ˈsȯf(t)-ˈland 
soft-landed; soft-landing; soft-lands
transitive verb
: to cause to make a soft landing on a celestial body (such as the moon)
intransitive verb
: to make a soft landing
soft-lander noun
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from soft landing
First Known Use
1958, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
- unexorcisable
- unexorcisably
- unexorcised
- unexotic
- unexpanded
- unexpansive
- unexpectable
- unexpected
- unexpectedly
- unexpectedness
- unexpectednesses
- unexpedient
- unexpended
- unexpensive
- unexpensively
- unexpensiveness
- unexperienced
- unexpert
- unexpiated
- unexpired
- unexplainable
- unexplainably
- unexplained
- unexplicit
- unexplicitly