Tea (disambiguation)

Tea is a beverage made from steeping the processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush in water.

Tea or TEA may also refer to:

Beverages and food

 * Tea (meal), any of several meals, involving different times and food
 * Herbal tea, or tisane, a catch-all term for any non-caffeinated beverage made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material
 * Traditional English Ale, the flagship ale produced by Hogs Back Brewery in England

People and legendary figures

 * Tea (given name), a feminine given name
 * Téa, a feminine given name
 * Tea Banh (born 1945), Cambodian politician
 * Thierry Tea, French-Cambodian businessman
 * Tea, in Irish legend, one of the two wives of Érimón and mother of Íriel Fáid
 * Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah in British Israelite literature, proposed to be the same as Tea, wife of Érimón

Chemistry

 * Tetraethylammonium, a potassium channel blocker used in neurophysiology
 * Triethanolamine, an organic chemical used in cosmetics and to bind aluminium ions
 * Triethylaluminium, a volatile organic chemical used in jet engines and as co-catalyst in olefin polymerization
 * Triethylamine, a colorless, "fishy"-smelling organic chemical used in chemical synthesis
 * 5-epiaristolochene synthase, an enzyme
 * Thermal Energy Analyzer, an analytical detector for tobacco-specific nitrosamines

Medicine

 * Test of Essential Academic Skills, a standardized test for nursing school admission
 * Transient epileptic amnesia, a temporal lobe epilepsy

Other

 * Tea (programming language), a high-level scripting language for the Java environment
 * TEA laser (Transversely Excited Atmospheric)
 * Tiny Encryption Algorithm, a block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and implementation
 * TETRA Encryption Algorithm, an encryption algorithm used in Terrestrial Trunked Radio
 * Tea (genus), a genus of spider hunting wasps
 * TEA (text editor) (Text Editor of the Atomic Era)
 * 453 Tea, an asteroid

Places

 * Tea, South Dakota, United States, a suburb of Sioux Falls
 * Tea River, a river in Brazil

Arts and entertainment

 * Tea, a 2000 novel by Stacey D'Erasmo
 * Tea: A Mirror of Soul, a 2002 opera by composer Tan Dun
 * "Tea", another name for the Chinese Dance in The Nutcracker
 * TEA (band), a Swiss progressive heavy rock band

Organizations and companies

 * Tamil Eelam Army, a defunct Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka
 * Texas Economics Association, a student organization at the University of Texas at Austin
 * Texas Education Agency, a branch of the government of the US state of Texas which oversees public primary and secondary education
 * Themed Entertainment Association, a group representing people involved in theme parks and similar attractions
 * Thorium Energy Alliance
 * Tirupur Exporters' Association, an association of cotton knitwear exporters from Tirupur, India
 * Trans European Airways, Belgium-based airline, now defunct
 * Trenes Especiales Argentinos (Spanish: "Special Argentine Trains"), a private railway company in Argentina
 * Trustees Executors and Agency Company, collapsed Australian trustee company (1879–1983)
 * Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, cultural space and building in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Other uses

 * Targeted Employment Area, a designation investment region of the United States
 * Test of English for Aviation, a language proficiency test
 * Transgender Erotica Awards, movie awards for transgender pornography
 * Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, a US federal planning law 1998–2003
 * Tea (cannabis), a slang term for marijuana made popular in the 1950s by Jack Kerouac in novels such as On the Road
 * Cannabis tea, a cannabis-infused drink prepared by steeping various parts of the cannabis plant in hot or cold water
 * Tea (gossip), a slang term for gossip