DEA (disambiguation)

DEA is the commonly used acronym for the Drug Enforcement Administration, a United States federal law enforcement agency.

DEA may also refer to:

Organizations

 * Drug Enforcement Agency (Liberia), a government agency
 * DEA (charity), Development Education Association or Think Global, a UK charity
 * Department of Economic Affairs (UK), a former UK government department
 * Department of External Affairs (Canada), a government department, now named Global Affairs Canada
 * Internationalist Workers' Left (Greece), abbreviated ΔΕΑ or DEA, a socialist political organization
 * DEA AG, a German public utility, originally named Deutsche Erdöl AG
 * Detectives' Endowment Association, a New York City police labor union

Science and technology

 * Data Encryption Algorithm, the block cipher algorithm defined in (and often referred to as) the Data Encryption Standard
 * Data envelopment analysis, a nonparametric method in operations research and econometrics
 * Dielectric thermal analysis or Dielectric Analysis, measures changes in dipole orientation and ion mobility in polymers
 * Diethanolamine, an organic compound with the formula HN(CH2CH2OH)2.
 * Diethylamine an organic compound with the formula (CH3CH2)2NH.
 * Disposable email address, a unique email box used for a single contact
 * Docosatetraenoylethanolamide, a biologically active lipid molecule
 * Dog erythrocyte antigen, a canine blood type
 * Dynamical energy analysis, a high-frequency asymptotic method in numerical acoustics

Education and society

 * Diploma de Estudios Avanzados, a Spanish graduate degree
 * Diplôme d'études approfondies, a former French graduate degree
 * Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA), part of the G.I. Bill

Media and entertainment

 * DEA (1990 TV series), a reality-TV show
 * DEA (2008 TV series), a reality-TV show

Transport

 * Deal railway station, Kent, England, National Rail station code
 * Dera Ghazi Khan International Airport, IATA code

Other uses

 * District Electoral Area, electoral divisions in local government in Northern Ireland