DEA (disambiguation)
# 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 $HN(CH_2CH_2OH)_2.$
* Diethylamine an organic compound with the formula $(CH_3CH_2)_2NH.$
* 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

## Other uses

* Dera Ghazi Khan International Airport, IATA code
* District Electoral Area, electoral divisions in local government in Northern Ireland
