DEA is the Drug Enforcement Administration, a United States federal law enforcement agency.

DEA may also refer to:

Organizations

  • Drug Enforcement Administration (Syria), a government agency
  • 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 DEA, a political party in Greece
  • DEA AG, a German public utility, originally named Deutsche Erdöl AG
  • Detectives' Endowment Association, a New York City police labor union
  • Danish Energy Agency, part of the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy

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(CH<sub>2</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH)<sub>2</sub>.
  • Diethylamine an organic compound with the formula (CH<sub>3</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>NH.
  • 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

  • , a Spanish graduate degree
  • , 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 drama 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

See also

  • Dea (disambiguation)