How does services menu work and how to clean it up?

You know how context menus on the mac are sometimes slow? I've figured out this has to do with the services menu.. located under keyboard -->services in the left-hand sidebar. My question is how do apps put services in that menu.. and how do I remove rather than disable a specific menu item?
I guess my broader question is how do I completely uninstall applications when I no longer have the original app bundle? I'm just concerned about clutter acclumating over time.
--Sam

https://discussions.apple.com/message/1485840#1485840
Apple found this answer for me after I posted.
However, the question is still a good one in general. Absent something like appzapper anaylyzing the app, how does one uninstall. The services menu looks like it will be taken care of when the app is removed. Language packs must have been the culprit for me?
--Sam

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