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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

See also

• Tee, an item of sports equipment
• T, the letter of the alphabet
• T (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Tea

• Disambiguation pages
• Place name disambiguation pages