# 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

## Science and technology
### 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 (wasp), 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