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DEA

DEA is the initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration.

DEA is the initialism of diethanolamine.

DEA is the initialism of docosatetraenoylethanolamide.

Meaning of diethanolamine

Noun

diethanolamine (countable and uncountable, plural diethanolamines)

  1. A hydroxy secondary amine, (HO-CH₂-CH₂)₂NH, used as a chemical intermediate and to absorb acidic gases.
    Synonyms:
    DEA, iminodiethanol

Meaning of docosatetraenoylethanolamide

Noun

docosatetraenoylethanolamide (uncountable, abbreviation DEA)

  1. An endogenous fatty-acid ethanolamide derived from docosatetraenoic acid and structurally related to the endocannabinoid anandamide.

Forms of DEA

pluralDEAs

Phrases with DEA

Questions about DEA

What is DEA the initialism of?
DEA is the initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration.

Words near DEA in the dictionary

  1. de-toxifying
  2. de-Trumpification
  3. de-volitive
  4. de-Zionification
  5. de-zombification
  6. DEA
  7. dea ex machina
  8. Dea Nutrix
  9. deabbreviate
  10. deabbreviated
  11. deabbreviates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DEA (page history and authors); diethanolamine (page history and authors); docosatetraenoylethanolamide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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