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: Beverage 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 Tea (given name), a feminine given name Tea, a Cambodian surname Tea Banh (born 1945), Cambodian politician Thierry Tea, French-Cambodian businessman Téa, a feminine given name Tea, the legendary wife of Érimón and mother of Íriel Fáid Tea Tephi, legendary daughter of Zedekiah which is proposed to be the same as the Tea (wife of Érimón) above 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 combining features from Scheme, Tcl and Java 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, a suburb of Sioux Falls in the US 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